Top Articles of 2014 - Innovation America

JumpStart Partners With Innovation America To Sponsor The innovationDaily Newsletter

Founded in 2004, JumpStart is a non-profit venture development organization committed to strengthening the inclusive economic vitality of neighborhoods, cities and regions. JumpStart partners with ...

Top5 Keynote Speaker Honorees for 2014 (Bendis Won! Thanks for your Vote!)

Each year, Speakers Platform recognizes five speakers within ten popular topic areas. Excellence in speaking is based on: expertise, professionalism, client testimonials, presentation skills and ...

How Do Angels Invest: Five Important Lessons from the Angel Investors Education Day | David Drake

Angels are almost everywhere in the financing and business landscape in the country, and globally. They either invest as individuals or as a group in almost all types of businesses, be it a startup ...

7 ways to secure startup funding that they don’t teach in business school

Fundraising is arguably the most important issue for any entrepreneur. Without financial backing, even the most brilliant idea will never see the light of day. This is a daily fight for start-ups ...

Cheats and Crooks and Creeps. Oh my!

by Dr. Janice Presser, CEO, The Gabriel Institute, architect of technology that measures Teamability® Dorothy, we’re not in Kansas anymore. The moral compass that Auntie Em and Uncle ...

The Rise of Innovation Districts: A New Geography of Innovation in America | Brookings Institution

AS THE UNITED STATES SLOWLY EMERGES FROM THE GREAT RECESSION, A REMARKABLE SHIFT IS OCCURRING IN THE SPATIAL GEOGRAPHY OF INNOVATION. FOR THE PAST 50 YEARS, THE LANDSCAPE OF INNOVATION HAS BEEN ...

10 Breakthrough Technologies 2014 | MIT Technology Review

Technology news is full of incremental developments, but few of them are true milestones. Here we’re citing 10 that are. These advances from the past year all solve thorny problems or create ...

30 Crowdfunding Sites to Take Your Venture to the Next Level

Small business owners frequently do not have the capital to pursue new venues, and they can find it difficult to secure loans from banks. Startups and entrepreneurs may find many lending doors ...

Why Bitcoin Matters | Marc Andreessen

A mysterious new technology emerges, seemingly out of nowhere, but actually the result of two decades of intense research and development by nearly anonymous researchers. Political idealists ...

Canada Set to Announce New Immigrant Investor Plan - WSJ

Canada is set to announce a new program that would enable some prospective immigrants to acquire residency visas by investing at least 1 million Canadian dollars ($890,000) in a venture-capital ...

36 Rules Every Entrepreneur Must Know | Kat Loterzo

1. It's all a lie. The idea that you have to be or do or have anything in particular in order to create your success is nothing but BS. YOU get to decide what's important. Yes you are also the one ...

Crowdfunding Explained in 3 Awesome Infographics, Part 1 - Accredify

One of our biggest marketing challenges moving forward is educating the world on the potential of crowdfunding. It’s basically a new technology. Kickstarter only recently hit their 5 ...

Why Silicon Valley’s Success Is So Hard to Replicate - Scientific American

After decades of bafflement and frustration, the world is still struggling to guess the secret of Silicon Valley’s success. Sure, the towns and cities at the San Francisco Bay’s southern end ...

Divide between incubators, accelerators blurs as governments look to assist entrepreneurs - The Washington Post

In the Washington region and across the country, the number of government-backed business incubators and accelerators has grown as public officials look for ways to support entrepreneurs, spur ...

Russian scientists and businessmen discussed global role of universities and technology transfer issues

On May 13-15 scientists, businessmen and public servants has discussed new opportunities for companies and universities at the VIII International Forum "From science to business" in St. Petersburg, ...

Entrepreneurs Among the Happiest People in the World

Global Entrepreneurship Monitor report finds entrepreneurship a satisfying career choice worldwide - especially for women within innovation-driven economies. (Santiago, Chile- January, 2014) ...

38 maps that explain the global economy - Vox

Commerce knits the modern world together in a way that nothing else quite does. Almost anything you own these days is the result of a complicated web of global interactions. And there's no better ...

Want to Work for a Startup? 10 Questions to Ask Your Interviewer

In startups especially, job interviews are just as much for the interviewee as they are for the interviewer. Because there is often a lot at stake for a new company, it's wise to ask where you will ...

Pitching To VCs: The Hollywood Vs. The Twitter Scenario

A friend of mine reviews screenplays for a major movie studio. To be clear, she’s not the person who decides whether her studio will make your movie. She’s the person who decides what the ...

Bootstrapping Organic Growth Makes Startup Sense - Startup Professionals Musings

When someone asks me for the best way to fund a startup, I always say bootstrap it, meaning fund it yourself and grow organically. Bootstrapping avoids all the cost, pain, and distractions of ...

Year To Date Venture Capital Fundraising Surpasses Full Year 2013 Commitment Levels - U.S. Firms Raise Nearly $6.1 Billion During Third Quarter

U.S. venture capital firms raised $6.1 billion in new commitments from 60 funds during the third quarter of 2014, a 26 percent decrease compared to the number of funds raised during the second ...

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