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Not Your Average Joe's entrepreneur shares success tips

Startup / Entrepreneurship
Not Your Average Joe's entrepreneur shares success tips November 21, 2008 5:40 PM By Beth Perdue / Bulletin editor FALL RIVER, Mass. — New Bedford native Steve Silverstein addressed a group of business people, students and academics at Bristol Community College recently urging aspiring entrepreneurs to surround themselves with good people, get the facts and figures, and know who your customer is. But above all, he stressed, persevere.
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Women Who Spend Time in the Sun May Age More Slowly, Study Says

Health
Women Who Spend Time in the Sun May Age More Slowly, Study Says Friday, November 09, 2007 Women who spend more time in the sun may be biologically younger and age more slowly than the rest of their age group, a study has found. Researchers from King’s College London have discovered that women who have higher levels of vitamin D, which enters the body through sunshine, certain foods and nutritional supplementation tend to show signs of being “biologically younger” and healthier than others. Lead researcher Brent Richards said that the study of 2,160 women aged between 18 and 79 showed that sunshine also could have an effect on age-related illnesses, such as heart disease.
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Gen Y Likes Talking About Brands

Marketing

Gen Y Likes Talking About Brands

AUGUST 13, 2007

Members of Generation Y have 145 conversations a week about brands, according to Keller Fay Group data cited in an August 2007 Brandweek article. That is twice as many brand conversations as adults.

Nearly six in 10 teens mentioned marketing and media in their conversations, while only 48% of adults did.

Only 7% of adult word-of-mouth mentions happened online, compared with 19% of teens'.

For both groups, 61% of brand word-of-mouth mentions were offline, even if the mentions were also being made at the same time online or in text messages.

Most teen brand mentions were positive (58%), compared with 64% of adult brand mentions.

The Keller Fay Group surveyed 13-to-17-year-olds during the first five months of 2007.

Europe's Tech Startup Boom

Startup / Entrepreneurship

Europe's Tech Startup Boom

Fueled by plentiful venture capital, plus cheap talent from Eastern Europe, tech entrepreneurs are pulling in U.S.-size profits

by Gail Edmondson
June 12, 2007, 12:42PM EST

Two-year-old London-based startup Garlik has the whiff of Silicon Valley about it. Its co-founders, Tom Ilube and Mike Harris, sold their first Internet-based company for an estimated $1 billion to Citigroup (C). The bulk of Garlik's research and development is outsourced to talented computer engineers in Poland who work for a fraction of what they'd cost in Western Europe. And it is backed by $18 million in venture capital.

With the speed of a well-heeled California startup, Garlik has raced to market in 18 months with DataPatrol, a privacy program that surfs the digital universe and, to deter abuse, tracks all the information about an individual on the Internet. Users now top 56,000 and Garlik is being hailed as a pioneer in the sector.

There's plenty more startups like Garlik emerging in Europe these days, fueling a tech-investing boom not seen on the Continent since the dot-com days. Successful serial entrepreneurs, cutting-edge technology, flush venture capital backing, and unfettered access to a continental talent pool: That quintessential Silicon Valley alchemy, once missing in Europe, is now powering venture investment to record levels. Venture funds raised last year for startups and early-stage companies in Europe rose 60%, to $23.5 billion, according to data released June 12 by the European Venture Capital Assn.—the second-highest level since the record 22 billion euros raised in 2000.