The top 10 fastest growing franchises in 2010 according to entrepreneur Six of the top ten are commercial cleaning services. Moral of the story is if you have to get your hands dirty at least get commercial rates for it.
In the current economic climate and the world of hard to get loans, franchises may [...]

According to the 2009 Global Venture Capital Survey released in June Clean Tech and Medical device & equipment will be the fastest growing sectors worldwide over the next three years. Both sectors are not much of a surprise based on the aging population and global warming coupled with the energy scare a few years [...]

The Economist announces innovation competitions for energy and media
Finalists to present to an audience of top executives at Economist Event
New York — CALLING ALL ENTREPRENEURS, INNOVATORS, CREATIVE THINKERS, INVENTORS, IDEAS PEOPLE
The Economist is holding two innovation competitions to find the most exciting, game-changing innovations that will have a marked impact in two key [...]

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Internet Entrepreneur legend Marc Andressen and business associate Ben Horowitz have created a $300 million venture capital fund called Andreessen Horowitz. Investments in startups will range from as small as $50,000 to $50 million dollars. The strategy is too get as many game changing companies with seed money as possible probably [...]

The 3rd annual AWS startup challenge is here. The Winner will receive 50K in cash and 50K in AWS credit. All other runner ups will receive 5K in AWS credits to work and grow their business.The finalists will be announced in October and a video will be posted on aws.amazon.com of each finalist so community [...]

All you serial entrepreneurs and startup addicts who have incorporated or are thinking of incorporating a business have undoubtedly heard of services like Bizfilings, Legalzoom and incorproate.com. I have personally used two of the three services for several of my own businesses and wanted to cut through the marketing jargon and find out if these [...]

Calling all startups and small businesses be sure to add these100 best web applications for entrepreneurs to your toolbox.
Whether you are looking for the ideal desktop collaboration software or trying to find online storage solutions, this list will have you up in running effectively on a “no to low budget”. Enjoy the list [...]

Came across a great article over at Inc about 30 great moments in entrepreneurship from 1979 -2009.
Go to the link and click on a year and see the great entrepreneurial successes for that respective year.

Spark Capital has launched a seed program for entrepreneurs called Start at Spark and will fund a convertible loan up to $250,000 bucks (converted to equity at a 20% discount in the second round of funding).
This is very similar to the CRV start program at Charles River I touched on a couple years ago. [...]

Twitter continues to be Silicon Valley’s microblogging platform of choice. As Twitter turns 3 years old (a teenager in Internet years) a very mature ecosystem is emerging and is becoming more of a disruptive technology rather than a novel add-on widget for traditional blogging sites and social networks.
A tell tale sign you’re dealing with a [...]