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World Water Day: Global Water Challenge

World Water Day: Global Water Challenge.
Online Competition Galvanizes Innovations
Global Water Challenge (GWC) and Ashoka”s Changemakers invite everyone to join ‘Tapping Local Innovation: Unclogging the Water and Sanitation Crisis,’ an online competition to discover and support entrepreneurs with groundbreaking approaches to the world”s water and sanitation challenges.
Also today, director of Oscar-winning films, Elizabeth and […]

UPDATE: NJBIZ EXPO: Greg Olsen, Angela Calzone to Appear

UPDATE: NJBIZ EXPO: Greg Olsen, Angela Calzone to Appear.
Venture capitalist and astronaut Greg Olsen, and entrepreneur Angela S. Calzone will share their expertise regarding ‘Entrepreneurship in the Garden State’ with an estimated 3,000 New Jersey business owners at the NJBIZexpo ?08 luncheon on May 20.
‘Each of our speakers has a compelling story to tell,’ […]

Luxury at home: No

Luxury at home: No. 3, Buford, Ga..
Terri Jondahl, 48, does not take vacations. As the owner of CAB - a manufacturer and distributor of metal components that drive wind and water turbines - she logs about 200,000 miles a year to meet clients and visit overseas operations. So when Jondahl wants to relax, she heads […]

On-line police checks sign of consumers” eagerness for convenience

On-line police checks sign of consumers” eagerness for convenience.
Back in Nova Scotia, Bill McMullin, the entrepreneur who started the service last year, says his firm is processing about 600 individual applications a month, paying $10 each time to the Springhill police.
The 40-year-old entrepreneur estimates he can tap into a market of one million […]

Dataside CEO joins Active Power board

Dataside CEO joins Active Power board.
James deVenny III has joined Active Power Inc.”s board of directors.
DeVenney is president and CEO of Dallas-based Dataside LLC, a provider of outsourced data center and network services that he co-founded. Austin-based Active Power (Nasdaq:ACPW) develops and manufacturers critical power systems.
‘We are looking forward to Jim”s […]

Calzado Reyes: Entrepreneurs of Agora Partnerships

Calzado Reyes is a men’s shoe manufacturer in Nicaragua. Santos Reyes is one of the enthusiastic entrepreneurs of Agora Partnerships. Agora Partnerships has provided consulting and financing to these entrepreneurs to help them be successful, create jobs and fight poverty.

Nurse practitioners as entrepreneurs: constrained or liberated?

Nurse practitioners as entrepreneurs: constrained or liberated?.
Nurse entrepreneurs are nurses who have control over and responsibility for an increased proportion of indirect processes of care in their roles. Nurse entrepreneurs have the capability to plan, organize, finance, operate their own businesses, and they work outside of an organization (Ieong, 2005). An advanced practice nurse entrepreneur […]

Australian building Stonehenge 2 to lure tourists

Australian building Stonehenge 2 to lure tourists.
An Australian entrepreneur hopes to open a Stonehenge replica by the Dec. 21 solstice, just in time for New Age revelers. ‘I”m doing it because I can,’ said Ross Smith, the former owner of a successful microbrewery business who plans to build the monument on his property […]

Cyberspace Holds a World of Productivity Freebies for Businesses

Cyberspace Holds a World of Productivity Freebies for Businesses.
Web sites until the publishing and financial information company closed its Carlsbad office in 2000, at which time the entrepreneur found the path to her current venture.
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