But importantly, according to the GEM report for Turkey, the rate of nascent entrepreneurship has risen from 2008 to 2010 from 6% to 8% and to 11% in 2011.
Adam Feuerstein from TheStreet.com seriously buries the lead in his Biotech Stock Mailbag column, waiting until page three to get to this gem.
According to the GEM Endeavor High Impact report, only 9% of all survey respondents were entrepreneurs of any kind and a miniscule .3% were high impact entrepreneurs.
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But, we as investors, must look clearly through the valley to take advantage of market turbulence to uncover hidden gem companies sold down to fire sale prices.
Companies are beginning to wake up to this gem's advantages.
Few people seem to know about this gem, so you are likely to have it to yourself.
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We do recognize that it would take a while for GEM to mature.
Because of their rarity and the crispness of their details, Benin bronzes are considered to be the gem of any African art collection.
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For those intrigued by green travel or in need of a retreat, a trip to this ethereal gem is certainly out of the ordinary.
There is a journey on a train bound for "Sethru-Jamjah" - a Google search took me to an African gem shop by that name!
In the battle between the former world number ones, Williams needed barely an hour to beat her Belgian opponent and remains on course to win the gem-encrusted racket on offer for winning the event three times in a five-year span.
Next he engaged a laboratory at the American Gem Society to certify his diamonds.
Based on its recent form, Merrill's fund business seems to have been a gem.
If you are ambitious you can hit three official Bourbon Trail outfits on your way to a lesser known gem, Corsair.
This little journalistic gem managed to simultaneously anger, amuse and puzzle me.
The perception is that many managed to get listed because GEM's requirements were not as stringent as those of other tech-oriented exchanges.
That may be the case, but you've probably heard of some of his work -- everything from arcade gem Sinistar to adventure game classic Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis.
Investors have believed AWS to be a hidden gem within Amazon, and it well could be, but when overall consolidated growth is slowing and costs are increasing, investors need more than faith.
One wildly successful example is Gemvara where Matt Lauzon realized he did not need to keep precious stones in inventory but, instead, to show extremely realistic and tantalizing gem settings, with the software support that enables customers to design their jewelry.
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How to hear about that oddball gem which had eluded syndication and the video store?
"GEM is supposed to have lower hurdles so that young companies can get funding, " he says.
House and Raymond L. Price have come up with a gem: how to build a great company when the boss isn't always right.
This little gem was designed to hold a cheroot (a small cigar) in one of three so-called coloring bowls, shaped to accommodate cigars of different diameters.
So, a six slot piece of armor could have 6 independent skills inside of it, or perhaps a lifelink and damage gem hooked up to a primary skill with 3 other separate skills.
The exhibition, which is part of this summer's annual opening of Buckingham Palace, includes a host of priceless jewelry, such as the emerald-encrusted Vladimir Tiara and two brooches set with stones from the famous Cullinan Diamond, said to be the largest rough gem-quality diamond ever found, at nearly 3, 107 carats.
Even so, there must be an awful lot of people still to catch up with this little gem.
It took the in-house gem-setter three to four hours a day for several days to complete the pattern.
Babson College, along with London Business School, launched the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) in 1999 to help answer this very question.
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According to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), the level of early stage entrepreneurship activity in Turkey in 2010 was 8.6 percent.
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