Top Articles of 2013 - Innovation America

Introducing the Most Popular Articles of 2013!

The articles below here are listed in most to least number of views for the 2013 publishing year. We are excited to continue to produce InnovationDAILY heading into 2014 and beyond. Your ...

Entrepreneurs in Residence: Bendis Presentation at SXSW

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10 U.S. Cities Trying to Recruit New Grads - Best Colleges Online

Periodicals and blogs across the United States really seem to enjoy publishing articles about the best places for recent college and university graduates to find jobs, live, and hopefully thrive. ...

America's Growth Corridors: The Key to a National Revival - A New Report | Newgeography.com

In the wake of the 2012 presidential election, some political commentators have written political obituaries of the "red" or conservative-leaning states, envisioning a brave new world dominated by ...

Do You Work in a ‘Suckritocracy’?

Dr. Janice Presser, CEO, The Gabriel Institute I better set a good example here. I take no credit for the word ‘suckritocracy’ but seriously, doesn’t it describe at least one place ...

Promoting and Fostering the Business Angel Market in Europe - Business Angels Europe is born - The 6 leading National Federations and Trade Associations of Angel investing launch their European Confederation

AEBAN (Spain), BAND (Germany), BAN Netherlands, BeBAN (Belgium), France Angels and IBAN (Italy), have signed today the founding act of Business Angels Europe (BAE) – the European Confederation of ...

Working the Room When You’re the Shyest Person In It | Official LinkedIn Blog

Career experts stress the importance of networking in creating the career you want, but for introverts, the task can be especially daunting. An evening exchanging business cards and elevator ...

Top 30 Best Cities for Young Entrepreneurs 2013

One of the most important things you’ll do when starting your business is to pick where to setup shop. You want to find a place that offers business resources but also the lifestyle and culture ...

50 Most Innovative Countries: Innovation Index Revealed - Bloomberg

When you think about the most innovative countries, the U.S. and South Korea often come to mind. But what about Iceland or Iran? How do they compare? Bloomberg Rankings recently examined more than ...

10 Reasons Why You Should Write A Business Plan

Business plans are dead — or are they? For many entrepreneurs, the business plan is an outmoded document that gets created mainly for the benefit of VCs and bank loan officers. Bootstrappers ...

Medical Startups Need Company Culture, Not a Room Full of Suits with Healthcare MBAs

By Julinna Davies 2012 has arguably been the year of the medical start-up in Maryland. As the coming article emphasizes, though, entrepreneurs must be both savvy and careful in their organization ...

U.S. ENTREPRENEURSHIP RATES REACH HIGHEST LEVEL IN MORE THAN A DECADE

Optimistic and confident in their abilities, a diverse and growing percentage of U.S. citizens engage in entrepreneurship, according to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) (Babson Park, MA) ...

Enloop Will Write Your Business Plan For You

Name: Enloop One-Liner Pitch: Enloop helps entrepreneurs figure out whether their idea would really make for a good business. Why It's Taking Off: The online service makes it easier for small and ...

Nonprofit tech innovators inspire new philanthropy - Business - Boston.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scott Harrison knows his charity has funded nearly 7,000 clean water projects in some of the poorest areas of the world in the past six years. How many of those wells are still ...

Awesome Video: How the Economic Machine Works

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Designing creative spaces for idea generation and start-up experiments

The role of universities is changing. In the last century the primary focus of universities was on education and research, with the key goals of creating and diffusing information and knowledge. A ...

DOE Announces $12 Million to Bring Cost-Competitive Solar Technologies from Lab to Market

As part of the DOE’s SunShot Incubator Program, the Department recently announced the availability of $12 million to accelerate solar energy innovation that reduces manufacturing, installation, ...

10 Attributes of That Rare Ideal Manager at Work

Everyone can recognize a great manager a mile away, so why is it so hard to find one? We all remember a few that are “legends in their own mind”, but that doesn’t do it. In fact, the clue ...

Four Innovation Trends to Watch in 2013 - Michael Schrage - Harvard Business Review

The OECD economies may be sluggish; America may or may not hurtle over fiscal cliffs; and BRICs may not be growing quite as fast as their champions hoped. But adversity (almost) always creates ...

How to Run a Team that YOU’d Really Want to Work With

Dr. Janice Presser, CEO, The Gabriel Institute How soon we forget what it was like to be a worker! The moment we become management, or worse, executive management, our focus has to shift from doing ...

10 Best Reasons to Be an Entrepreneur | Inc.com

I recently asked fellow members of the Young Entrepreneur Council--an invite-only organization made up of the world's most successful young entrepreneurs--just what it is that makes them work so ...

World's Most Affluent Metropolitan Areas: 2012 | Newgeography.com

Late in 2012, the Brookings Institution published its annual Global Metro Monitor (by Emilia Istrate and Carey Anne Nadeau), which estimates economic data for the 300 world metropolitan areas with ...

University of Minnesota commits to new venture capital fund - Pensions & Investments

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, committed $5 million in the first venture capital fund offered by Icon Venture Partners, a new firm that will focus on investment in early-stage enterprise ...

13 New Year’s Resolutions to Work Happy in 2013

Welcome to the New Year 2013! You’ve probably already made your resolutions, but if not, I suggest a renewed commitment to finding happiness and satisfaction in your work. After all, most of us ...

5 Practical Tips for Perfecting Your Startup Pitch

We are living in the age of the entrepreneur — more people are starting up, and it's ever important to stand out in the crowd. When pitching investors, then, it's crucial that entrepreneurs do ...

17 Hot Industries to Watch in 2013

The smartest entrepreneurs don’t emulate trends — they set them. In 2013, with both rapid technological advances (NFC, anyone?) and policy changes on the horizon, startup founders are looking ...

How To Manage Time When Running a Business

Running a business is time consuming and to make sure that a business is successful it is essential to manage your time effectively. It is important to spend time on the core tasks. Too much effort ...

13 top mobile apps for entrepreneurs on the go - The Next Web

No entrepreneur is without a smartphone or tablet anymore, it seems. In fact, it’s hard to remember what, exactly, we did before we had the ability to stay on top of everything from operations to ...

See The 8 Best Ads Of Super Bowl XLVII | Co.Create: Creativity \ Culture \ Commerce

For years now, one of the central changes that’s been happening in the ad industry--or, a change that the industry has been trying to effect--has been the shift from the notion of making ads ...

2013 YEARLY

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