http://www.zeromillion.com/news News about the growth of entrepreneurship and noteworthy entrepreneurs from around the world russ@virante.com ithomas@virante.com http://www.zeromillion.com/news/s.php/hung-over---need-advice-673 Staff Writer 2009-11-06 17:14:25 A hangover is the body's way of telling you it is dehydrated and needs water now.. but I'm sure that everyone has warned you, "Don't drink water when you have a hangover, you'll get sick". You get sick because you are so dehydrated that your body is overwhelmed by the... \ http://www.zeromillion.com/news/s.php/2-new-competitions-open-in-africa-582 Staff Writer 2009-11-06 12:08:23 The BiD Network has opened two business plan competitions: the Women in Business Challenge and the Acess to Clean Energy Challenge. Participants will receive feedback to their plan and they can get access from the BiD coaching program and business tools. Any entrepreneur that is competent, professional and able to... \ http://www.zeromillion.com/news/s.php/nyc-entrepreneur-celebration-522 Staff Writer 2009-11-06 10:50:21 Are you a hardworking entrepreneur and need a break from work? Well the Business Insider is hosting an event with Regus NYC to jumpstart the holiday season with a 2 hour open bar. On November 18, they are offering this open bar for a night of networking and celebration of... \ http://www.zeromillion.com/news/s.php/bermuda-entrepreneur-contests-559 Staff Writer 2009-11-04 11:09:22 Senior high school students in Bermuda now have an opportunity to earn a $1,000 educational grant by bringing out their inner-entrepreneurship skills. Global Entrepreneurship Week is upon us and new challenges are sprouting to get our nation involved with coming up with new or better ideas to make our lives... \ http://www.zeromillion.com/news/s.php/small-businesses---big-impact-508 Staff Writer 2009-11-04 10:46:21 Recessions, unemployment rates and stores going out of business have been plaguing the United States for some time now, and if this continues, only the strongest will survive. Do we really want a world with just Wal-Mart, Target, McDonalds and Wendy's? If we continue on a downward path, our country... \ http://www.zeromillion.com/news/s.php/how-a-german-widow-entrepreneur-survived-the-after-war-economy-646 Staff Writer 2009-11-03 18:52:41 On November 9, 1989 the Berlin Wall opened and Germany united after the Cold War. Numerous lives were lost and businesses were struggling to get back on their feet after a brutal recession. When Beate Uhse lost her husband in the war, she was reluctant to release her shop and... \ http://www.zeromillion.com/news/s.php/what-drives-entrepreneurs-442 Staff Writer 2009-11-03 18:24:17 Entrepreneurs are serious business men and women that strive to be better than the person before them. Entrepreneurs focus on the end product and ignore the hassles, set backs and burnouts that separate the managers from the workers, so what drives them to success? Entrepreneurs are obsessed with achieving the... \ http://www.zeromillion.com/news/s.php/former-vp-of-engineering-at-google-to-speak-in-entrepreneurship-series-813 Staff Writer 2009-11-03 16:51:33 Wayne Rosing, the former Vice President of Engineering at Google, is set to speak at the Santa Barbara City College Scheinfeld Center as a part of their Enlightened Entrepreneurship Series. His talk will be centered around Design and Innovation in Engineering. Rosing was first a Director of Engineering... \ http://www.zeromillion.com/news/s.php/entrepreneur-magazine-features-new-belgium-s-ceo-793 Staff Writer 2009-11-03 16:39:55 On the cover of this month's Entrepreneur Magazine is Kim Jordan, CEO of New Belgium Brewing Company. The article, called "Brewing Big (With a Micro Soul)," uncovers how Jordan maintains the company's freewheeling spirit, while continually growing for 18 years. This year, the Brewing Company is set to... \ http://www.zeromillion.com/news/s.php/do-universities-matter-265 Staff Writer 2009-11-02 15:55:12 If you are looking for a job or want to start your own business, will going to a certain university raise your chances? No! It doesn't matter if you attend UNC, Yale, UT, Harvard, A&M or Duke, as long as you have a degree. If you are serious about getting... \ http://www.zeromillion.com/news/s.php/michael-turner-s-story-300 Staff Writer 2009-11-02 15:40:35 When Micheal Turner was in school, he came up with an idea to create his own business - he had the skills and the know-how to run his own computer business. So at 16 years of age, young Turner dropped out of school and created his own business in Lympshm,... \ http://www.zeromillion.com/news/s.php/non-profit-aims-to-assist-entrepreneurs-156 Staff Writer 2009-10-30 10:58:37 The Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center is a local non-profit organization that strives to help educate and support entrepreneurs throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. The center has been providing classes for entrepreneurs in 1995, when it only offered Business Planing classes. Today, the center offers classes ranging from writing a... \ http://www.zeromillion.com/news/s.php/serial-entrepreneur-mark-eric-jones-named-keynote-speaker-356 Staff Writer 2009-10-30 10:29:28 Mark-Eric Jones, a serial entrepreneur and technology innovator, will be the keynote speaker at the User2User 2009 Conference in Munich, Germany. According to Jones's most recent company, Innovative Silicon, Inc., his topic will be "Building Companies that Build Innovative Technologies." The conference will be held on November... \ http://www.zeromillion.com/news/s.php/to-be-a-successful-entrepreneur-521 Staff Writer 2009-10-29 13:18:52 New entrepreneurs want to jump out of the box and hit the ground running, but that's far from doing what is right. When budding entrepreneurs take off, they think the know what to expect, but wind up hitting a road block and don't know what to do or where to... \ http://www.zeromillion.com/news/s.php/a-second-chance-for-pit-bulls-528 Staff Writer 2009-10-28 16:44:26 Hundreds of pit bulls are taken from bad homes each year and due to state laws, most of these abused dogs are put to death without a second chance. Many abused pit bulls only wish for a better home and aren't aggressive by nature, but have become fearful and have... \ http://www.zeromillion.com/news/s.php/black-bears-are-medicinal-wonders-584 Staff Writer 2009-10-26 21:02:45 Black bears are among some of the cutest animals on the planet that come across as horrible brutes. They are seen as destructive in camp grounds and as dangers on hiking trails; any camper or hiker can tell you that a black bear is not something you want to reconcile... \ http://www.zeromillion.com/news/s.php/small-business-differentials-544 Staff Writer 2009-10-26 20:04:03 As a new business owner, it's important to understand how the economy works. New businesses need to accept the economy and find the best possible way to build their business from the ground up. Most businesses have a cheesy slogan and sometimes creepy mascot, so be different and differentiate yourself... \ http://www.zeromillion.com/news/s.php/zynga-games-help-the-world-456 Staff Writer 2009-10-22 16:00:20 Online users have surely heard of Zynga; Zynga floods social networks like MySpace and Facebook, but their presence is more than welcomed. Children, teens and adults alike love to add the apps to their page to play games, increase their social network and help the needy across the world. Mark... \ http://www.zeromillion.com/news/s.php/korea-would-benefit-from-more-foreign-entrepreneurs-955 Staff Writer 2009-10-22 11:02:25 According to a story in the Korea Herald, the head of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Korea, Simon Bureau, is urging the Korean government to pay more attention to the contributions of individual Korean entrepreneurs working overseas. Bureau noted that "much has been said about the... \ http://www.zeromillion.com/news/s.php/entrepreneur-launches-new-approach-to-fundraising-930 Staff Writer 2009-10-21 10:44:13 Tom Freiling of Orlando, FL, knows what to do during a recession: quit your job. He's so good at it, he's done it twice. During the brief economic downturn following September 11, 2001, Freiling started an online book publishing business that he eventually sold to Salem... \