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In remote Kenyan villages, solar startups bring light
Some 1.3 billion people around the globe don’t have access to an electric grid. But solar startup companies say harnessing an abundant resource -- the sun -- can light up some of the world’s most remote areas. In this Kenyan…
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For African-American female entrepreneurs, funding challenges call for creative bootstrapping
The fastest growing group of entrepreneurs in the U.S. is African-American women. But minority-owned businesses often face greater challenges getting funding. The NewsHour’s April Brown profiles two women who have bucked the stereotypes and gotten resourceful to launch their ventures.
Column: Why you no longer need a venture capitalist to start a successful business
The spread of the virtual corporation model was a boon for generic plug-and-play vendors who could assemble products and manage supply chains, ship goods to consumers and provide various business services. But once all of these components were available off-the-shelf,…
Column: How lightweight enterprises are outperforming industry heavyweights
A corporation was once a social institution, with a mission and members and boundaries that separated the inside from the outside. Today it is more like a webpage. Whereas Blockbuster had 83,000 employees and 9,000 physical stories at its height,…
Middlebury College, a liberal arts school in northern Vermont with just 2,500 students, has become an unlikely hothouse for cultivating entrepreneurs. Does using college to start a business help support the larger liberal arts mission? Economics correspondent Paul Solman reports.
Small investors could soon be another source of start-up cash for budding entrepreneurs. NewsHour wants to know what you think about the proposed changes. Take our poll and sound off.
Raising a large pool of money from many small contributions online, known as crowdfunding, was supposed to be an option for startup business to raise money when President Obama signed the 2012 JOBS Act into law. But today, that method…
Some high tech entrepreneurs have started trading in the high costs of the San Francisco Bay Area for the sunnier skies of Venice Beach in Los Angeles. But with the benefits of the boom, like high-paying jobs, also come problems,…
The startup scene has exploded on the tech market with good ideas and some not-so-good ideas. Special correspondent Steve Goldbloom examines the process that startups go through to become solid businesses and how unsuccessful business get canned.
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