| Business start-ups in the borough are up by 29 per cent for the first three months of the year. |
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| Many have suffered for being perceived as part of big, top-heavy conglomerates instead of nimble, young start-ups. |
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| Alexander's new job is to tub-thump for more business start-ups, better training, better skilling, raising our business horizons. |
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| Which makes it all the more disappointing that the language used by most start-ups is so cold, so bloodless, so calculating. |
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| And the story bears a curious resemblance to accounts of tech start-ups or college kids cutting class to become dot-commers. |
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| Its two universities are now creating between six and 10 company start-ups a year. |
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| There are as many business start-ups per capita in outlying regions as in central regions. |
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| This programme must be simplified to make it more userfriendly, in particular for small and medium-sized enterprises and start-ups. |
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| Many firms that were just fledgling start-ups in 2000 are now mature, profitable businesses. |
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| Both are now shepherding clean-tech start-ups that have the potential to be disruptive game changers. |
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| These days, most Internet start-ups are hoarding their cash and downsizing their dreams. |
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| The resulting explosion of start-ups and innovations created a rapidly evolving market where many valuable services and websites emerged. |
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| However, loans may also be given for start-ups, particularly when the entrepreneurs are able to provide some kind of equity. |
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| Tucker found that when confronted with patent trolls, start-ups often had to resort to layoffs or abandon projects. |
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| What can possibly be the answer to the funding crisis facing budding start-ups wanting to get IT kit on tick? |
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| The competition is open to a variety of ideas, not just business start-ups. |
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| Even a sluggish economy isn't likely to dampen the outlook for these Internet start-ups. |
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| The scheme will provide a range of business mentoring support for start-ups and young businesses pre-investment. |
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| The dotcom crash shows that investing successfully in start-ups demands more than just large sums of ready cash. |
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| As a writer of this column, I hear a constant stream of suggestions for business start-ups. |
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| Lack of people with such skills is inhibiting the maturing of start-ups into full businesses. |
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| Mr Hauser will address Venturefest York delegates on what makes successful business start-ups. |
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| For start-ups, landing a major brand-name customer is one of the biggest coups there is. |
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| Yorkshire is also one of the worst performing regions for business start-ups. |
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| However committee members weren't convinced by the argument that the propeller-head start-ups don't face the same social obligations. |
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| Ten years ago these buyers would have been building up portfolios in the stock market or investing in business start-ups. |
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| First, there may be an entrepreneurial spirit increasingly abroad in Sweden and its cultural industries that has led to a wave of start-ups. |
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| Those figures are beyond more or less any other model of economic intervention in supporting new business start-ups. |
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| Exclusive Some start-ups are comprised of wide-eyed wheelers and dealers with little technical expertise. |
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| The cubicled floor space of start-ups turned agglomerates make up the Binary Proletariat. |
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| The town was also one of the highest performers in the North-west for business start-ups. |
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| In the space of three hours we were told help should be focused on start-ups or businesses with real growth potential. |
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| The agency is far from perfect but there are signs of progress with a substantial rise in the number of business start-ups. |
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| You don't legislate for more nurses, better policing or more business start-ups. |
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| Starting a new business is a challenge, and the TVBC is keen to support new business start-ups. |
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| Its projects range from investigating new markets for Fortune 500 companies to reformulating the business road maps of failing start-ups. |
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| Forward-thinking start-ups materialize and change the rules of the game almost overnight. |
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| Other services at the centre include advice on benefits, immigration, business start-ups and careers. |
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| The other big thing is that while there are attempts to help business start-ups, we have got to find ways and means to help existing businesses. |
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| Many start-ups, spin-outs and otherwise, struggle to find external backing to take them on to the vital growth phase of their business. |
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| We have an outreach culture at Tipperary Institute which means pro bono face time with local schools, voluntary organisations and cash-strapped start-ups. |
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| In addition, since the company has specialized in short production runs, new start-ups are a frequent occurrence, which constitutes an added difficulty. |
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| The latter in particular has become a buzzword for Silicon Valley start-ups. |
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| The caller mentioned my work, which focused primarily on consumer products, mobile apps, emerging start-ups, and web trends. |
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| Private equity may be the only route for some start-ups or expansions, and angels would like to see more projects take wing, because that's how they make money. |
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| He later became active in entrepreneurial companies, starting TV stations in the Baltic states and investing in start-ups. |
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| At the event, 10 high-growth start-ups, largely in fintech or security, pitched their businesses to an audience of venture capitalists and invited guests. |
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| In a world of pre-IPOs and Internet start-ups, what do you feel is the determining factor for retaining employees, and more specific, retaining web designers? |
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| Like cyclists huddled in the peloton, London's start-ups hope they can break away from the pack to sprint for victory. |
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| Lets connect, talk shop, and build some original and meaningful start-ups in the process. |
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| This site contains forward-looking information on future production, project start-ups and future capital spending. |
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| Israel's position as a hotbed of hi-tech start-ups is due in part to decades of circumventing Arab boycotts. |
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| Investing in start-ups from the people who pitch us or some we just happen to stumble upon! |
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| Estonia, the land where Skype was invented, produces more tech start-ups per capita than any other country in Europe. |
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| Cleantech start-ups are maturing and proceed from the technology development phase to the commercialisation phase. |
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| Software and networking start-ups are peppering their marketing materials with the term. |
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| While start-ups can therefore feel confident about finding qualified workers, their availability depends on the company's activity sector. |
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| Pennsylvania contains beaten-up rustbelt towns but also spanking corridors of high-tech start-ups and big-box stores. |
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| After a stint excavating a Spanish galleon and a few jobs at established technology firms, she ended up in the world of Silicon Valley start-ups. |
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| The chosen business start-ups are given ongoing managerial and financial support for two or three years, until they can survive on their own. |
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| Private equity funds took a beating during the Internet bubble years of 2000-01, when a number of venture capitalists lost their shirts investing in start-ups. |
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| Since leaving UroGene in 2001 he has applied his expertise to advise start-ups to retarget their business, in order to assure early benefits. |
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| The tax free rollover will give such businesses, especially high tech start-ups, greater access to capital from what are called angel investors. |
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| So does Samsung of South Korea and both Seiko Epson and Fujitsu of Japan, as well as a handful of start-ups in Britain and America. |
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| Mr Green hopes to crowdfund the case or put together a syndicate of angels, just as other tech start-ups do. |
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| It feigns to loathe costly regulations but in fact red tape makes it harder for job-creating start-ups to challenge established businesses. |
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| The speed and size of the buildout reflects the speed-to-market benefits of fixed wireless technology in telecom start-ups. |
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| A shabby grey building a short walk from the city's becalmed shopping district, it is home to a clutch of fledgeling tech start-ups. |
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| They find it even harder than men to line up finance, so their start-ups are often undercapitalised. |
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| The main focus had always been on increasing education enrolment and microenterprise start-ups. |
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| Incubation is a particularly highrisk investment because it aggregates a portfolio of start-ups in the riskiest stage of their development. |
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| The new incubator center for start-ups, which was initiated by Empa Thun, also profits from this infrastructure and knowledge-exchange. |
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| He has extensive small and medium enterprise sector experience, including start-ups, management buy-outs, buy-ins, turn-rounds, mergers and acquisitions and exits. |
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| Shareholders and boards badgered managers to build up their new-media divisions or buy into Internet start-ups. |
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| It evaporates more readily than summer gasoline for improved cold weather start-ups. |
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| Our ability to attract that venture capital to give rise to those start-ups, to innovate, to compete and win, is directly affected by the quality of life that an organization like the National Capital Commission impacts upon. |
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| Although companies at more advanced stages of development attract a greater share of investments, investor interest in start-ups appears to be continually growing. |
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| Volume declined in the first quarter of 2007, mainly in France, where the decrease resulted primarily from temporary inefficiencies due to press start-ups and transfers. |
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| These are not start-ups or struggling new media companies, but established businesses in old school industries. |
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| But Web-based start-ups thrive not on easy money but on smart money. |
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| Other key presenters included executives from Google, Microsoft, and start-ups like pebble. |
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| We must also encourage entrepreneurship and business start-ups. |
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| New partnership with RBS is key for Entrepreneurial Spark success in supporting start-ups and new entrepreneurs across Scotland. |
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| But if a growing number of start-ups have their way, such staples could become pin-ups for food of a new provenance, and one that couldn't be further from the organic farms beloved of chefs: the lab. |
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| So for a country hungry for high-tech start-ups it is gratifying to see foreigners creating one in Britain. Telefónica's happy experience owning O2 is one reason for the move. |
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| Fresh from a globe-trotting stint as the EU's trade commissioner, he bunged loans to nuclear and automotive firms, seeded technology start-ups and co-chaired a new council of car manufacturers. |
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| This invited developers, researchers, start-ups and students to draw on their creative flair in the development of innovative Web service applications on our cards. |
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| The workers send their work back to CrowdForge, which combines their output to produce surprisingly readable results. Several American start-ups are operating similar workflows. |
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| The purpose of the scheme is to promote investment in business start-ups and extensions, in rehabilitating and modernising existing establishments, in completing suspended work and in purchasing new equipment. |
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| More direct contacts exist between research organisations and high tech based start-ups, either in the form of university spin-offs, or start-ups fostered in technology parks or technology based incubators. |
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| Strategic partnerships were also concluded with the Federal government to set up two venture capital funds: one dedicated to start-ups and another to business successions. |
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| They are proving popular with commercial space start-ups, schools and even individuals who want to conduct research in microgravity without the expense of achieving orbit. |
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| On the other hand, this program is a great platform for start-ups to rope in bright candidates on board. |
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| Welcome to Corel's one-stop virtual toolkit for small businesses and start-ups showing you how Corel's award winning software makes marketing cost effective and easy. |
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| Off to a running start with the January renewals, many of these start-ups have quickly achieved scale, capitalizing on the market's renewed concern for security. |
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| The partnership aims at catalysing the growth of eligible start-ups and launching them beyond their respective home markets. |
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| PortXL offers start-ups the fertile environment to give their passion and energy a kick-start within three months. |
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| Keeping up with the dotcom start-ups would mean spending as profligately as they had, but without the freedom that came, in those golden days, from investors' tolerance of big losses. |
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| It launched in February an incubator to foster education start-ups. |
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| Growth in South America was twice that seen in North America due to the start-ups of the preceding quarter and steady demand in the industrial and healthcare segments. |
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| The economy will not grow vigorously enough to cut the number of jobless unless the climate is friendlier to foreign investment and local start-ups. |
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| Excluding these elements, the positive impact of new field start-ups were offset by the effects of normal declines, unscheduled maintenance and the termination of the Jusepin field contract in Venezuela. |
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| Moreover, this one will happen only if Germany can create and commercialise valuable university research and learn to incubate high-technology start-ups. |
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| He is involved in pro bono work for First Nations communities in the Northwest Territories, and is a principal in four small public oil and gas start-ups. |
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| And in March the Massachusetts Institute of Technology released a beta version of App Inventor, which allows even simpletons to make apps for Android phones. Several start-ups already offer DIY app services. |
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| Many start-ups, notably Carbonetworks and Hara, have appeared. |
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| America's software industry renews itself through start-ups, founded by people who are not content to rise through the ranks of an established company. |
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| Angel investors are generally wealthy individuals who invest in small businesses and start-ups with the intent of earning a higher rate of return than they could through other investments. |
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| Venture capital is an important financial tool for innovative start-ups in many industries. |
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| The competition singles out the European start-ups offering the most innovative and relevant partnerships in the areas of habitat, energy and the environment. |
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| This year we'll be featuring a number of breweries from Cumbria, an area where there's recently been a wave of microbrewery start-ups. |
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| To support employment, France Telecom contributes to structures that facilitate new business creation. France Telecom has also set up an organization to encourage the launch of start-ups by intrapreneurs from the Group. |
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| The Airbus BizLab welcomes applications for acceleration programmes in Hamburg from start-ups. |
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| Other Livelihood workshops: candle or décor-making, meat processing, dressmaking, reflexology or acupressure, cosmetology, and business start-ups. |
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| Wives, mothers and mothers-in-law exert a strong influence on men not to join risky start-ups, says Yoshiaki Ishii, head of new-business policy at the industry ministry. |
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| Here are five social entrepreneurship start-ups you should know. |
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| Backing tested concepts mitigates the risk inherent in start-ups and means companies are likely to grow quickly, because the original firm has already worked out the kinks. |
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| Much of the workforce of Silicon Valley is as yet unorganized, from the crews at Internet start-ups who work 14-hour days and camp out in their offices to the lower echelons. |
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| Linder has represented start-ups, early-stage, emerging growth, mid-stage and Fortune 500 companies such as NextEra Energy, Inc. |
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| Backing their most promising offshoots is the next best thing. Indeed, a handful of specialist investors are looking to back new hedge funds in the same way that venture capitalists back start-ups. |
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| Post megamerger, post-patent cliff, and post-financial crises, the reality is that large pharma and big biotech have been much harder to entice for small start-ups. |
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| The firm's partners have been founders and CEOs of successful start-ups, officers of large companies, and have decades of venture capital experience. |
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| Missing or inadequate firewalls are not uncommon in areas such as healthcare and life science start-ups where IT might not be properly staffed or funded. |
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| Diageo is embarking a new venture in which the company will fund technology start-ups to work on briefs like tackling irresponsible drinking and fighting retail theft. |
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