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Qualcomm Launches Small Business Accelerator

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San Diego-based Qualcomm Technologies has launched a new program to help small businesses move towards the "mobile-first" world, the company said last week. READ MORE>>.

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HelloTech Gets $12.5M

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Los Angeles-based HelloTech , the in-home, IT and technology help service founded by tech veteran Richard Wolpert, has raised $12.5M HelloTech said it will use the funding to aggressively expand its tech support service. The startup uses college students in order to provide in home technical support, with a focus on older users.

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Baby Boomers May Be Your Biggest Startup Competitors

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In fact, according to the latest Index of Startup Activity by the Kauffman Foundation and recent press reports , these Baby Boomers are actually driving a new entrepreneurship boom. The immigrant rate of entrepreneurial activity seems to be declining each year (now about.5%), 5%), but still remains higher than the native-born rate.

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Encore Entrepreneur Is The New Baby Boomer Lifestyle

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In fact, according to the most recent Index of Startup Activity by the Kauffman Foundation and recent SBA reports , these Baby Boomers are actually driving a new entrepreneurship boom. The immigrant rate of entrepreneurial activity seems to be declining each year (now about.5%), 5%), but still remains higher than the native-born rate.

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Test Your Aptitude for Business Internet Jargon

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Facebook alone has 800 million active members. Wikipedia started this, but it is also used for technical support, software, and product reviews. Just for fun, I’ve come up with a scoring system based on my own non-scientific survey to help you rate yourself on your level of Internet business acumen. Crowdsourcing.

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Interview with Cliff Rees, XCast Labs

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We will go to the cable MSO, and totally white label our technology so it looks and fells and smells to end users, customer service, technical support, and sales people, like their own brand. We've got patents on technology that helps save bandwidth utilized for VoIP calls and particularly for video.

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Baby Boomers Are Surpassing Gen-Y As Entrepreneurs

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Contrary to what most of you might guess, the highest rate of entrepreneurial activity over the last few years is not Gen-Y young upstarts, but Baby Boomers in the 55-64 year age group. In every single one of the last 15 years, Boomers between the ages of 55 and 64 have had a higher rate of entrepreneurial activity than Gen-Y, aged 20–34.