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Call for Nominations Are you, or do you know, an under-30 superstar entrepreneur who we should consider for this year's 30 Under 30 Coolest Entrepreneurs list? We're calling for nominations from all industries to create a diverse list of companies led by young entrepreneurs who have the potential to become the rock star CEOs of their generation

For the entrepreneur, creative capital can be the catalyst to compel investors to sign on earlier in the start-up process. In 2006, after designing products and brands for other companies for 12 years under ASTRO Studios (my design firm), I teamed up with some outstanding business partners and spun-off a separate, product producing, direct-to-consumer brand of premium video gaming products called ASTRO Gaming

Creative capital, like venture capital, can be valuable to any growing organization and often worthy of an equity stake in the outcome. I’ll ask that you, the busy reader, indulge a background setup about yours truly. Hopefully, if you continue reading future blogs, some of the following will assist you in understanding my point of view

A boom in new incubators is helping to fuel a boom in new tech start-ups.

Despite a drop in venture capital investment in the third quarter, venture capitalist Jeff Bussgang says he is seeing a surge in entrepreneurial activity. Total dollars invested through venture capital dropped 12 percent in the third quarter of 2011 compared to the previous quarter, according to an October report from Pricewaterhouse Coopers and the National Venture Capital Association

Only 14 percent of Inc. 500 companies are venture backed, which makes you wonder: Is it worth it to take on venture funding? Tonight was movie night at the Inc

Instead of being held captive by massive startup and infrastructure costs, Science Exchange allows anyone to have an experiment performed for them--for a fee. Scientific research is an expensive proposition.

In my last post, I cautioned about the dangers of learning about venture capital from watching a TV show .

Fourteen company builders talk about their successes, their failures, and the lessons they learned along the way. Two were fired from the companies they formed.

At the Venture Capital in Education Summit yesterday, Jose Ferreira, CEO of Knewton , announced the first big partnerships that will have tens of thousands of students trying the adaptive learning platform he's been building for the past five years. What he calls a "data interoperability engine" promises to take any kind of educational content, break it down and present it to students at exactly the sequence and pace they need, while giving detailed feedback on performance to both students and professors. "We can classify students by ability level down to the concept,"

TinyCo already makes top-selling iOS and Android games. And now, with the help of a billion-dollar venture capital firm, it's formed an investment fund to help more mobile game coders write hit apps.

The recently released Forbes list of America’s billionaires is chock-full of the usual suspects--oil-magnates, captains of the computer industry, and world-famous financiers. But one person seems incongruous among the bunch. Tied with the ever-present and ever self-promoting Donald Trump as the 153rd wealthiest person in the country is Ty Warner