An entrepreneur's backstory plays a critical role in the success or failure of a fledgling venture, says Lianne Lefsrud, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan Ross School's Erb Institute.
Economics & Business
Dec 17, 2013
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Three young entrepreneurs have opened what they call the world's first ATM able to exchange bitcoins for any official currency.
Internet
Oct 30, 2013
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Baby boomers are fueling a wave of entrepreneurship among older Americans.
Economics & Business
Oct 10, 2013
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Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, who sold blogging platform startup Pyra Labs to Google a decade ago, will cash in anew when the hot one-to-many messaging service hits Wall Street.
Business
Oct 6, 2013
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AOL co-founder Steve Case is looking to finance entrepreneurs who are trying to build technology companies outside Silicon Valley, just like he once did.
Business
Sep 30, 2013
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A smart phone app points people the way, assists event organisers in preventing emergency cases and turns its creators into technology entrepreneurs.
Software
Sep 24, 2013
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More than 200 of Afghanistan's most active users of Twitter and Facebook gathered Sunday for the country's first-ever social media summit to explore how the Internet is transforming traditional society.
Internet
Sep 22, 2013
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The crowd stands and cheers. The exhausted, triumphant winning team is handed its trophy, which the captain lifts while the rest of the players raise their arms in victory.
Social Sciences
Sep 3, 2013
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If David Huang had left his native Taiwan for Sweden a generation ago, he would have taken a giant leap into the unknown.
Business
Aug 28, 2013
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Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk released rough plans last week for a "Hyperloop" that would shoot capsules full of people at the speed of sound through elevated tubes connecting Los Angeles and San Francisco. Then he urged ...
Engineering
Aug 23, 2013
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