Higher taxes combined with more and more regulations are stifling many start-up companies in the U.S. China, on the other hand, is encouraging start-up companies and provides generous incentives to those who create industry.
Three-quarters of U.S. start-ups expect to raise capital next year, according to a new survey, but many of them will find doors closing on the fund-raising trail as venture investors experience their own capital shortage.
Although he doesn't officially take up the reins of office until his inauguration on January 20, 2009, Obama and his economic team -- including nominee Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and nominee Chief of the National Economic Council Larry Summers -- have already outlined an ambitious raft of policy measures designed to kick-start the flagging U.S. economy.
On average, 20% of start-ups fail within their first year, according to the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, which also conducts an annual study on entrepreneurial activity in the U.S. Its newest report, due out next month, is expected to show that start-up volume in the U.S. increased by just a few percentage points in 2011, just as it did in 2010, 2009 and 2008, says E.
From a share of 12% of the global market at the start of 2001, non-U.S. ETFs today represent 21% of all money invested in ETFs.
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The rule, implemented by the U.S. Golf Association (USGA) and Royal and Ancient Golf Club (RA), means that from the start of 2010 the U-shaped grooves on wedges will be banned in favor of V-shaped grooves, with the intention of rewarding accurate driving over distance hitting.
The 29-year-old is yet to start a match for the U's since agreeing a short-term contract over the summer.
Will the next big start-up company locate in the U.S. with such a cost disadvantage?
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While start-ups are important to job growth and innovation in America, U.S. immigration laws make life for start-up companies much more difficult.
Aurasma, a start-up based in Cambridge, U.K. that was spun out of Autonomy Corporation, is aiming to do just that with the mobile app it created almost exactly year ago.
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Even with the deep cuts the START follow-on treaty requires in U.S. strategic nuclear delivery vehicles, it may still be possible to retain a nuclear "Triad" of long-range bombers and land- and sea-launched ballistic missiles.
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Start selling fuel-efficient engines to the U.S. military--and hope that the volume and lessons learned will yield new efficiencies.
Now Inamed's Reich wants to start selling silicone-filled implants in the U.S. again.
Though Iraq has grown safer in the last six years, sectarian violence and instability still grip the country 10 years after the start of the U.S.-led war.
Typically only 1% or 2% of users will upgrade to a paid product, said David Cohen, founder and CEO of TechStars, a start-up accelerator since 2007 with five U.S. locations.
The 21-year-old, who made one start and eight substitute appearances during his two-month spell with the U's, has returned to parent club Watford.
Start with the U.S. home-sales market, the center of the storm.
Yet, a Kremlin spokesman has already served notice that Moscow will feel free to abrogate the START follow-on treaty if it believes that U.S. missile defenses in Europe are a threat to its deterrent.
Given a start with some other fissile material (U-233, U-235 or Pu-239) as a driver, a breeding cycle similar to but more efficient than that with U-238 and plutonium (in normal, slow neutron reactors) can be set up. (The driver fuels provide all the neutrons initially, but are progressively supplemented by U-233 as it forms from the thorium.) However, there are also features of the neutron economy which counter this advantage.
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Earlier this week, for example, Coca-Cola announced preliminary deals to start refranchising its U.S. business.
Now, I think there are two ways in which these START negotiations have advanced or at least influenced Russia-U.S. discussions around Iran.
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The founders of a select group of Israeli start-ups, looking to establish themselves in the U.S. market, were given an opportunity to make their pitch and respond to our questions.
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The meeting will be chaired by Ambassador Max Kampelman, President Reagan's highly respected chief negotiator in the U.S.-Soviet START I talks, and sponsored by the National Institute for Public Policy.
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Using the pretext of the years' end expiration of the U.S.-Soviet START Treaty, the President has dispatched an inveterate denuclearizer, Assistant Secretary of State Rose Gottemoeller, to negotiate in haste a new bilateral agreement with the Russians.
The Kauffman Foundation proposed some ways that the U.S. could encourage more such start-ups.
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Better Place also said Thursday that it plans to start building battery-exchange stations in California--its first U.S. destination--next year.
The company plans to start placing caps on data uses on its DLS and U-Verse services beginning in May.
At the start of U.S. trading, stocks were firmer--with investors anticipating more rate-cut action from the Fed after last week's sluggish economic data.
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