Entrepreneurs love to grumble about the roadblocks and delays created by bureaucrats. Government officials, they say, are slow, bumbling and concerned only about sticking to the rules and clocking out at 4:55 p.m. But in a study of global entrepreneurship, Raffi Amit and Mauro Guillen, both Wharton management professors, have found that a simple, if smart, bureaucratic initiative mattered ...
Food Incubator founder focuses on local impact (The Fort Collins Coloradoan)
Question: What is the Northern Colorado Food Incubator?
On the bus between the airport terminal and the aircraft recently, I got talking to the head of one of the newer gold ... (Financial Mail)
rights bill introduced in 2002 has been widely slated by the mining industry, he pointed out that in all likelihood his company would not have existed before it. Along with transferring all ownership of mining rights to the state, it also introduced a "use it or lose it" clause.
Ghana: Arthur K on Job Creation (AllAfrica.com)
At the beginning of this campaign, I pledged that this will be a campaign of ideas that will propose substantive solutions to the problems of our nation.
AMI-Partners: SMBs in Brazil to Spend US$30B on IT and Telecom This Year (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
NEW YORK----Small and medium businesses in Brazil are on track to spend up to US$30 billion on IT and telecom this year, up some 11% over last year. The bulk of all IT and telecom spending will be toward telecom, according to the latest study by New York-based Access Markets International Partners, Inc.
Tuesday Toastmasters Akron 151... (Akron Beacon Journal)
Tuesday Toastmasters Akron 151 ? 6:30-8 p.m., St. Thomas Hospital, 444 N. Main St., Akron. Information: Paul, 330-794-2605, or Randy/Ben, 330-929-7700. Wadsworth Toastmasters ? 7 p.m., Wadsworth Main Library, 132 Broad St. Information: Carol at 330-336-8000. International Referral Network ? Greater Akron Chapter ? 7:30 a.m., Panera Bread, 689 Howe Ave., Cuyahoga Falls. Free. Information: ...
Small-business sector picking up the pace (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Wisconsin added about 2,300 businesses with employees in 2006 - strong growth compared with recent years, and strong relative to growth rates in states across the Northeast and Midwest, according to federal data released last week.
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