The organizer, Rentenna, is a start-up in the business of rating the city's rental buildings.
In the development of commerce in the United States, a frequent method of competition has been for one business to start up in close physical proximity to its competitor.
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Outset Cornwall has helped start up more than 200 business in the county since its launch in October 2009.
But it pales in comparison to other innovation-driven economies like France, where 17% expressed such plans and Taiwan, where 25% are gearing up to start a business in the immediate future.
However, NTC was already a national organization with programs across the country, operating like a business start-up in growth mode.
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The region continues to have the lowest business start-up rate in the country.
Start-up business ventures can be funded in numerous ways with the most common external funding method being money from savings accounts or retirement plans.
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Today your local bank might be interested in lending to a start-up business but tomorrow it will be less inclined because carrying that kind of loan increases its risk.
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For example, it is unlikely that a start-up will succeed in taking on Wal-Mart (WMT) directly in the retailing business with an everyday low price strategy nor will a start-up office operating system maker make much headway against Microsoft (MSFT).
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When Todd McKinnon tried to get funding for his business-oriented tech start-up in 2009, he says many potential investors wouldn't even return his calls.
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Just outside the city centre, the co-founder of a business start up, Hivejobs, says that in his experience, traditional family employers are often reluctant to make room for highly qualified young knowledge workers.
The trip took 26 Babson College MBAs to visit with start-up CEOs, capital providers, and professors so they could learn about what it takes to start a business in these locations.
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VCs, they say, are in the business of fostering entrepreneurship with start-up money, while buyout firms acquire a company, trim out the fat, then dump it for a handsome profit.
Up to another half-million have come in intending to start a business or be self-employed.
In Brazil, it takes up to 120 days to start a business and around 4 years to close it down mainly due to high levels of bureaucracy.
Get caught defrauding Medicare and you may be out in a few years with good behavior, whereupon you can start up the business again.
My friend, the late Ron Morris (founder of The American Entrepreneur radio show) often told me that when he was considering whether to invest in a start-up, he would look at three things: the business model, the quality of the entrepreneur himself, and the external market.
When an entrepreneur can start a new business, it creates jobs in their country, but also opens up new markets for our country.
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After working for an American newspaper, The Overseas Weekly, for five years in Germany, he came to Asia in 1967 to start up its Hong Kong office, and subsequently started his own business.
Gill and his brother decided to ratchet up the business, persuading their father to cut out the middlemen in Singapore and start importing directly from manufacturers.
The portal's acquisition of the photo-sharing site Flickr was hailed by some as a sign that it could freshen up its business model by tapping into the wave of Web-friendly start-ups that emerged in the wake of the 2001 tech bust.
Jobs was a multi-disciplinary business man, and start-up kind of guy, whose company hired a great designer in Ive.
They had both set up small businesses in the U.K., but were looking for a business to start as a team.
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Later an analysts job at technology start-up Telephia in Silicon Valley provided the opportunity to learn more about the intersection of math and the mobile business.
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Like Libya, which owned up to a once-secret weapons programme, Iran and North Korea got their start in the uranium-enrichment business from the nuclear black market run by Pakistan's disgraced Abdul Qadeer Khan.
One 20-year-old, surnamed Zhou, said he came up to the Foxconn plant from a Sony factory in Shenzhen, but he hoped to return to start a business in trading once he had saved enough money.
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The skinny on Europe is its politicians have not the slightest idea about business at the grass roots, whereas in America there is a youth culture around the start-up.
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The trend will only start to accelerate as more marketers who grew up in the Internet era push for it and specifically, tie it to key business objectives like driving incremental sales or lowering marketing costs.
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