Sentences with phrase «area entrepreneurs in»

The Tri-Chamber Networking event is one of our largest meet - ups of the year with over 100 area entrepreneurs in attendance.

Not exact matches

One of the top areas of neglect for entrepreneurs is in financial statements.

Foresight, patience and a willingness to take risks also pay off in these markets more than others, so entrepreneurs should expand into areas where they're passionate and committed to staying the course.

Some businesses have outsourced apsects of their HR, especially fast - moving startups run by youger entrepreneurs who haven't been trained in this area.

The key is for entrepreneurs in places like Kansas City and Nashville and Cincinnati to take the right lessons from the Bay Area, by focusing on the mindset: the idea that innovation comes through iteration, that failure should be embraced for what you can learn from it and that every business can be transformed by technology.

«We have 7,000 entrepreneur small businesses that are trying to work in defense,» Kelly says of the San Diego area, so the cluster must be highly selective.

The local government may be dishing out cash and support to nurture young entrepreneurs, but as Court Robinson, a native of New Orleans and president of the Tulane Entrepreneurship Association, explains, benefits flow both ways as the area helps start - ups succeed and start - ups in turn help the local community flourish:

In virtually every area of business, entrepreneurs find pitfalls along the way.

So it's easy for an entrepreneur to lose patience and rush to get some skilled help in this area.

Being an entrepreneur, especially if you're starting a business for the first time, requires you to develop many new muscles and to skill up in many areas simultaneously.

The most successful entrepreneurs tackle problems that have caused them personal pain, in an area they know well.

Sharon Vosmek, CEO of Astia, a San Francisco - based nonprofit dedicated to identifying and promoting women as high - growth entrepreneurs, sees innovations in traditionally underfunded areas like women's health and reproductive health as a growing market.

What has been determined — initially over tea and biscuits in Malala's family's home — is that the Fund will have three prongs: advocacy, storytelling, and funding of local entrepreneurs in areas where girls don't have access to education.

By contrast, women who raise A rounds in the Bay Area, «tend to have more technical backgrounds and many are serial entrepreneurs who have raised venture capital while running other companies.»

Start - ups, especially technology and media firms, tend to be clustered in Santa Monica and neighboring areas on the West Side of Los Angeles, says Tyler Koblasa, a Los Angeles entrepreneur and organizer of Start - Up Weekend L.A. and Start - Up Nights, programs to create a community of Los Angeles entrepreneurs.

Produced in partnership with Entrepreneur Media, the two - day HackON invited local small companies to submit their biggest business challenge and let a group of area business and community members help find (or «hack») a feasible solution.

Entrepreneurs and small business owners tend to be conversant in a wide variety of areas.

Skills needed: Entrepreneurs in this area should have technical skills if they are building mobile - based solutions.

One area where entrepreneurs can often be penny-wise and pound - foolish is in risk management and insurance.

The day also marked a celebration of area entrepreneurs that participated in Goldman's 10,000 Small Businesses program.

Under the direction of area director Bernie Meineke, the SBDC housed at Georgia State University in Atlanta has helped scores of entrepreneurs to hone their skills as managers and as strategic thinkers.

Hundreds of area entrepreneurs have taken part in the program since the center began to offer it in 1998.

The entrepreneurs in the Bay Area grew up seeing their mother run a restaurant business all on her own.

And that is what we see in the graph — so apparently the benefits of having a lot of entrepreneurs in one area increase with their numbers.

Harp's data showed that entrepreneurs who set shared long - term business and family goals with their spouses scored higher in every area of satisfaction than those who didn't.

St. Louis is one of the metropolitan areas trying to establish an economy that can thrive in that new reality, and civic leaders, investors, entrepreneurs, financial institutions, and state and local government have banded together over the past several years to come up with a potential solution:

Entrepreneurs seeking to gain entrance into the SBA's 8 (a) program must meet a number of criteria in such areas as ownership, management, and likelihood of success.

Try «speed dating» by checking out an open house event attended by entrepreneurs or finding a co-working space and sitting in the coffee area to chat up those nearby.

Find co-working spaces and incubators in your area, which are fantastic places to work and network with other talented entrepreneurs and business professionals who might make great resources as you start and as you grow.

Entrepreneurs may be excited to start a new endeavor but if this area is in shambles, they are going to have a difficult time running their startup.

The «problem with the Entrepreneur's Dilemma... is that all these areas of life do not take equal time,» she argues in a recent Fast Company column.

The biggest area of growth has been from younger clients and entrepreneurs, often in their early thirties, Norman said.

Living in a hub city, where you would be able to mingle with fellow entrepreneurs and other creative people, might inspire you in ways that you couldn't anticipate living in a smaller area.

Meanwhile, co-working spaces also were debuting across the country — and not just in the largest cities but in smaller urban areas and university towns with thriving populations of entrepreneurs and independent workers.

The various areas in which entrepreneurs are susceptible to the confirmation bias include: 1) identifying who the real competitors of the start - up are, 2) methodically and rigorously analyzing what the competition is doing and how it may affect the start - up, 3) understanding what the company's current and prospective customers need and want (it is usually not what one originally thinks), and 4) estimating the resources needed by the company to achieve its stated goals.

Maybe they had a «previous life» working in insurance or some other sector, and became an entrepreneur in that same area later in life.

Most entrepreneurs need professional assistance with signage since they don't have experience in this area.

The Guidices rolled out NGAtops in partnership with TownWizard, a software provider in Santa Rosa Beach, Fla., that supplies web and mobile app templates that let small - town entrepreneurs build guide services previously limited to major urban areas.

Compared with the general population, more entrepreneurs have a college education, and proportionally more live in urban areas.

The concept is simple: Nonprofits bet that lending small sums to female entrepreneurs in underdeveloped areas can help individuals — and in the process, stimulate local economies.

The network of support that is available to entrepreneurs in Austin is second to none and remains a big reason why so many successful companies, in so many different industries, come out of that area.

As a startup advisor and investor, living in an area with several local universities, I'm continually surprised by how little many entrepreneurs know about the resources available from these institutions.

You will find expertise in areas you need, as well as quick advice from entrepreneurs just ahead of you in every phase of the business cycle.

The landscape is littered with financially healthy entrepreneurs who crashed and burned in another area of life.

For starters, suggests Joel Evans, co-author of Retail Management: A Strategic Approachand the RMI Distinguished Professor of Business at Hofstra University's Zarb School of Business in Hempstead, New York, entrepreneurs should track their sales and customer retention, and then look at the pricing activities of similarly sized companies in their geographical area - while being mildly alert to what larger firms are doing.

In late 2010, four energy entrepreneurs pooled their resources for an affordable Boston - area warehouse space where they could build hardware prototypes.

To help guide the entrepreneurs, Plug and Play has brought in more than 20 experts in areas such as fundraising, government regulation, and getting to market.

Covering the many faceted interests of women entrepreneurs in all areas of business, the NAWBO has chapters all across the United States and maintains affiliate chapters around the world.

«At this point, there simply aren't enough software engineers to meet the demand in the Bay Area,» says John Rampton, a longtime entrepreneur and founder of free hosting service Hostt.com.

This billionaire entrepreneur says that «it is amazing how focusing your mind on issues like health, poverty, conservation and climate change can help to re-energize your thinking in other areas.»