Sentences with phrase «of area entrepreneurs»

The survey also found that concern over healthcare costs fell dramatically from last fall, although it is still a top concern of 63 percent of area entrepreneurs.

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

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

Not exact matches

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

Stephen Curry is a hero to Golden State Warriors fans, but the superstar point guard has some Bay Area heroes of his own: Silicon Valley entrepreneurs.

As part of the CEO Project, a boot camp for entrepreneurs, Schleckser advises CEOs and company founders on the most important areas of their business to focus on.

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 purpose of this article is to help entrepreneurs minimize one specific area of risk: financial risk.

«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.

Social Finance: Unlocking the Potential for Developmental Lending, a new research report conducted my firm Impakt, reveals that the Indian Business Corporation, a company owned by the three treaty areas of Alberta, has pioneered an approach called «developmental lending» that is providing aboriginal entrepreneurs such as Ms. Saliwonczyk with capital to create new businesses, or maintain or expand existing ones.

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.

The release of open - source tools for entrepreneurs and developers isn't the only area where competition is likely to heat up.

A critical lack of affordable housing and sky - high rent prices have made the San Francisco Bay Area unlivable for many artists, artisans, longtime residents, and even tech entrepreneurs.

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.

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.

These spaces are typically independent of a single office or business and instead bring together entrepreneurs and business professionals from many different industries, businesses and areas of expertise.

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

The good times don't stop on the red carpet: The $ 830 billion economy of the Los Angeles metro area is chock full of opportunities for the entrepreneur.

It addresses areas that are imperative to the success of someone new to being an entrepreneur, and it also serves as a reminder for existing entrepreneurs who want to be better entrepreneurs.

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.

Entrepreneur: What drew you to this area of study?

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.

Lacking access to the American market, many entrepreneurs are flocking to other areas of the world where they believe their companies have a greater chance at success.

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.

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.

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.

These are just some of the areas of expertise required by entrepreneurs bringing a physical hardware product to market.

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.

Los Angeles area game developer Giovanni Luis made the leap to entrepreneur after 20 years of working for Electronic Arts and Sony.

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.

Taking the time to think holistically about your life dreams and how your business fits into them keeps conflict between different areas of your life to a minimum, and this can mean fewer distractions and greater consistent motivation for entrepreneurs.

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.

IF YOU thought the Internet was an area where entrepreneurs with drive and vision could forever change the fundamental rules of an industry, you're too late, those days are gone already.

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.

Thanks to excellent advice and coaching available from the likes of Nivi and Naval, Fred, Brad, TechStars, Y Combinator, and the like, entrepreneurs are learning how to effectively address the traditional areas of investor concern over risk.

What Colorado has acknowledged with this program is that there are talented entrepreneurs outside of the Denver metropolitan area who have everything it takes to succeed — except for access to capital.

Put yourself out of business, and let them get on and run your business day to day, and then you can start dealing with the bigger issues, and you can take the company forward into bigger areas, and you can — maybe if you're an entrepreneur, you can start your second business or your third business.

It is a hard concept to explain precisely and to quantify, but the idea of differing levels of social capital helps explain why, for example, French entrepreneurs (not to mention Indian, Chinese, Mexican and Nigerian) are more likely to create successful tech startups in the US or the UK than at home, or why it is easier to start a business in Sidney than in Beijing, or why technological innovation is not evenly spread out among countries, even among countries at similar development levels, but rather tends to cluster in a few areas in a few countries where tech entrepreneurs seem to believe that their work is made easier and the rewards greater.

I mean I know I've talked to a lot of different other internet entrepreneurs and some people share the advice, you know, just pick one specific niche or one specific topic or area and just do really well at that.

The assessment focuses on nine area of business that most entrepreneurs overlook.

Targeted benchmarks are in place to measure the advancement within specified areas of business training, requiring full commitment from each participating entrepreneur.