Amongst the general public, entrepreneurs often get a bad rap.
Another Aspen study found that those who were on welfare before becoming entrepreneurs were able to generate enough income on their own that, on average, the amount of public assistance that these entrepreneurs accepted declined by 61 percent between 1988 and 1992.
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Mobile products and services are creating an ecosystem that supports public institutions and helps entrepreneurs build new businesses.
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At APEC WES, I assembled a panel of five great women leaders representing the key sectors of the new innovation economy: Education and research, government and public policy, social entrepreneurs, and business and technology.
Gaurav Dalmia of First Capital India, a private-equity boutique, says this ranges all the way from big foreign funds negotiating equity stakes in large Indian public companies to Indian entrepreneurs returning from Silicon Valley to put their money into tech start-ups.
We have ranchers, public servants, clean energy entrepreneurs and community organizations from all across rural America.
Class politics makes for bad economics: the state swells, public money gets wasted and entrepreneurs grow nervous.
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Recently, the San Francisco-based Cleantech Group, convened top investors, utility executives, corporate executives, entrepreneurs, and public sector leaders for a Water Innovation Summit.
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In the circumstances many entrepreneurs would have gone public to raise money and lessen personal risk.
There, the High Court decided that government could condemn private property for the public good even if entrepreneurs sought to build hotels and shopping centers.
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In that spirit, last year we announced the Startup America Policy Challenge, calling on entrepreneurs and the broader public to share their ideas on how to accelerate entrepreneurial innovation in healthcare, energy, and education.
During a closed-door session at SXSW Interactive organized by Engine Advocacy and the Austin Technology Council, U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) discussed how we can further encourage innovation and economic growth by empowering entrepreneurs to help shape public policy.
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Vacation portrait photographers are independent entrepreneurs who approach tourists at public attractions and offer to snap group portraits.
So, too, are other entrepreneurs who want to go public.
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Congress needs to champion this push with thoughtful, comprehensive and bipartisan legislation, Freed explained, but the American public, business leaders, universities, entrepreneurs, large companies and the financial sector have to act in tandem.
This is not to downplay the individual genius of so many entrepreneurs, but without the public sector acting as both initial funder and demanding customer, so many brilliant ideas would never have taken root or would never have been possible in the first place.
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Yet her story, and those of other successful women entrepreneurs, are scarcely in the public eye.
Now the barriers between public and private sectors are eroding, allowing entrepreneurs into the state system.
Some examples: The German government-owned development bank KfW has launched the first public-private parallel investment program specifically for social entrepreneurs.
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But not so tightly that entrepreneurs start to dread the prospect of a public listing.
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In contrast, entrepreneurs can lose face by insulting someone in public, refusing invitations and gifts or by behaving inappropriately, like losing their temper or crying -- acts that are seen as lack of self-control and weakness.
The government funded Tech City Investment Organization offers strategy, support and international connections to London and UK tech entrepreneurs, while the Technology Strategy Board hands out public money to worthy startups.
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Its state-owned companies and armies of public-sector employees are still pampered at the expense of its entrepreneurs.
Some entrepreneurs welcome the fact that these investors bring expertise about public markets and are willing to pay more than venture capitalists for stakes.
With the technology racing along so fast, entrepreneurs have jumped aboard the bandwagon to offer members of the public tantalising glimpses of what their genes may have in store for them. 23andMe of Mountain View, California, and deCode Genetics of Iceland started last November.
Unofficially dubbed the "Mitchell Commission" but never enjoying official status, her group of entrepreneurs, investors, academics and accountants set to work with little public fanfare.
In the 40 states and the District of Columbia that have charter school laws, anyone -- from entrepreneurs like myself to groups of parents -- can start a public school.
Evidently some Chinese entrepreneurs continue to believe that a listed firm's ability to raise public capital is worth having if not now, then one day.
All sorts of entrepreneurs are finding it harder to obtain seed money and to take their companies public.
The City Council's Public Safety Committee has set its sights on the huge inflatable apes and dinosaurs that local entrepreneurs particularly garage owners stick on their roofs to draw attention to themselves.
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