LendingTree Ranks the Best and Worst Cities for New Small Businesses

When you’re just starting out as a small business owner, you want to be in the best possible position for success. While success is ultimately determined by a combination of factors, there’s no denying that some U.S. cities tend to produce more successful start-ups than others. In a new study, LendingTree used data from more than 80,000 queries submitted by new small business owners seeking loan offers through our small business loan marketplace to determine where businesses tend to do the best. See full Press Release.

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Ellas² – Vuelve el Women’s Entrepreneurship Day

Celebrating Women's Entrepreneurship | Global Entrepreneurship Week

Celebrating Women's Entrepreneurship | Global Entrepreneurship Week

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How Startups Are Using Tech To Try And Fight Workplace Bias : Code Switch : NPR

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Article: Why Are Wind Power Entrepreneurs Talking Like 19th-Century Railroad Barons?

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Entrepreneurs Aren’t Overconfident Gamblers, Study Finds | Berkeley-Haas

Entrepreneurs Aren’t Overconfident Gamblers, Study Finds | Berkeley-Haas

EYVoice: What 2% Of Women Entrepreneurs Know That You Don't - Forbes

EYVoice: What 2% Of Women Entrepreneurs Know That You Don't - Forbes

Jack Ma's Top 10 Rules for Success

Mariana Mazzucato: "The Entrepreneurial State: debunking public vs. private sector myths" - OECD Observer

Mariana Mazzucato: "The Entrepreneurial State: debunking public vs. private sector myths" - OECD Observer

Women entrepreneurs: Starting out in your forties

"Timing is everything," says entrepreneur Raquel Johnson.

"By the time you're 40 years old, you've learned a great deal, both professionally and personally, and made a lot of mistakes. And I think respect comes with age - people take you more seriously."

It certainly worked for Johnson. It was as she was turning 40 that she set up the San Francisco-based product design company, Coupage, with her engineer husband. Business has been booming ever since.

See full Article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22556638

Why we must outfox the criminal entrepreneurs

Below the surface of globalization and the green revolution, a global web of crime and corruption feeds an illegal economy that is corroding market-based economies and democratic institutions, threatening the health and safety of citizens around the world and endangering vital ecosystems and habitats. Staying ahead of these illicit networks will take a global network working collaboratively across sectors, governments and organizations.

Criminal entrepreneurs have hijacked the technological, financial and communications advances of globalization for illicit gains. The proliferation of these networks and the convergence of their illegal activities threaten the interdependent commercial, transportation and transactional systems that facilitate free trade and the movement of people throughout the global economy.

The exact volume of illicit trade is unknown, but according to some estimates, the illegal economy accounts for 7-10% of world GDP, with higher rates in the developing world.

See full Article: http://forumblog.org/2013/04/why-we-must-outfox-the-criminal-entrepreneurs/

Do Female Execs Improve Odds of Startup Success?

Having female executives helps venture capital-backed startup companies achieve success, a new study shows. The participation of women executives, particularly at the vice presidential and director levels, makes a significant difference, the researchers found.

VC-backed companies that made successful exits – through public offerings or by being acquired – employed more female senior executives than unsuccessful companies did, according to the study of the VC industry conducted by Dow Jones VentureSource.

See full Article: http://smallbusiness.foxbusiness.com/sbc/2012/10/08/do-female-execs-improve-odds-startup-success/

10 Reasons Why Women Make Better Entrepreneurs

I've heard one too many female entrepreneurs preface a challenge they've had with the statement "maybe it's just because I'm a woman but I find it hard to"...(you can fill in the blank): ask for what I want; settle for something less than perfect; not to try to do it all myself. These statements make me cringe. I'm not a fan of sweeping gender generalizations and I'm certainly not keen on women attributing their challenges (challenges that many people experience by the way) to the fact that they are female. Women entrepreneurs get enough flak for not being more like men without us jumping on the bandwagon ourselves.

I can't say whether any of the oft-recited gender stereotypes are true ("scientific" studies always seem to be contradictory in their findings), but let's pretend for a moment that they are. Then let's pretend that these differences aren't deficits (gasp) and instead are assets. What if gender differences made women even better business owners? It's not hard to make a compelling case.

See full Article: http://myventurepad.com/adelaide-lancaster/82270/10-reasons-why-women-make-better-entrepreneurs

What Are Social Entrepreneurs Made of?

Recent years have seen an explosion in third-sector organizations, as nonprofits, foundations, cooperatives, professional associations and religious communities have assumed larger roles in society. This is certainly no coincidence. In the wake of the sovereign debt crisis, governments are facing greater challenges in financing their obligations. As a result, private citizens are taking it upon themselves to search for alternative ways to meet basic social needs. Leading this drive is a new breed of social entrepreneur. IESE's Marta Curto takes a closer look at these entrepreneurs and the role innovation plays in their activities. See full Article.

Running the Gauntlet of Social Entrepreneurship

In Europe alone, socially minded businesses provide jobs for 11 million people and account for 10 percent of all companies -- proof that the social entrepreneurship model that emerged in the 1980s has taken solid root. With governments finding it increasingly hard to address, never mind eradicate, the manifold problems blighting communities, more and more professionals will be needed to channel their energies into business projects that give something back to society. But changing the world, or at least a small part of it, is no easy task. Social entrepreneurs confront numerous challenges in implementing initiatives, as Marta Curto reports in a study published by the "la Caixa" Chair of Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Governance at IESE. See full Article.

Where do the world's most entrepreneurial women live?

This interactive visualizes female entrepreneurship around the world. Run your cursor over the spectrum to see the numbers of entrepreneurs in 40 countries, as well as entrepreneurs as a percentage of the working-age population. Much of the data is not what you'd expect: Countries like Mexico score highly, with ten times more female entrepreneurs than, say, Sweden. Expert analysis will pop up for the countries in color to help you make sense of the numbers.

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Keys to better capitalism and human welfare: Entrepreneurship

For the last three decades, start-up companies have been the job-creating engine of the US economy. Such enterprises are essential and yet, they are often overlooked in favour of the big firms. A related problem is that capitalism is often thought to be the cause of economic woes, although evidence clearly shows that capitalism – especially entrepreneurial capitalism – creates jobs, wealth and life-enhancing products and discoveries, contends Carl J. Schramm. The President and CEO of Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation was speaking at SMU's Institute of Innovation and EntrepreneurshipDistinguished Speaker Series.

For decades, entrepreneurship has been a course only offered in the business schools of US universities, he observed. “An irony – because entrepreneurs do not [usually] come from the business schools; they come from everywhere else,” said Schramm. Engineering schools, for example, are reflective of “big firm capitalism” as their innovations, new services and products become commercialised. Medical schools, with their prolific research initiatives, also provide fertile ground for entrepreneurship. In fact, any field that is driven by research has the potential to produce entrepreneurs.

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