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Articles in category: Entrepreneurship

1. Leadership Pioneer Valley graduates a new class of 39 Explore masslive.com (Jun 10 2013) Entrepreneurship For Alfonso Santaniello, Leadership Pioneer Valley was a chance to get together with other young professionals across the Pioneer Valley and work on making this a more vibrant place for people to start promising careers.  'It made me a better leader,' said Santaniello, president and CEO of the Creative Strategy Agency in Downtown Springfield. 'BotH in business and in life.' (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Pioneer Valley Planning Commission   Springfield

2. Springfield Technical Community College students help colleague found MJ's Mobile Detailing Service Explore masslive.com (Jun 5 2013) Education , Entrepreneurship Springfield Technical Community College student Mark Chamberlain, 27, of Hampden, still shakes his head in disbelief when he thinks about how his car-detailing business got off the ground. What started out as a night at the bar, chatting with his buddies about possible business ideas, prompted the small group to take their ideas to the next level. Today, Chamberlain, along with his friend and business partner, Joseph Carlos, of Springfield, is the successful owner of MJ's Mobile Detailing Service. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   MassMutual   Springfield Technical Community College

3. Innovation and Entrepreneurship Roundtable Explore From the EDC (May 10 2013) Entrepreneurship The EDC wishes to acknowledge Steve Davis from Ventry Associates and the Davis Foundation, who recently agreed to chair the EDC’s new Innovation and Entrepreneurship Committee. Steve attended today’s roundtable, along with leaders from our university, business and entrepreneurial communities. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Michael Graney   Ann Burke   Economic Development Council of Western Massachusetts

4. Ventures and Adventures Explore BusinessWest (Apr 23 2013) Entrepreneurship Sharon Styffe, dean of Workforce and Professional Development at Holyoke Community College (HCC), says that coming up with a successful new business concept is a challenge that comes in two parts: having a good idea, and identifying a market to buy that idea. “It’s one thing to do what you’re good at,” she told BusinessWest, “but its quite another thing to find something you’re good at — and that the market will buy. You can’t just sell something that’s your passion; it has to be someone else’s need — because otherwise it’s just an organized ... (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Holyoke Community College   Holyoke

5. Cleantech Open Explore From the EDC (Apr 16 2013) Entrepreneurship Join us for an intimate briefing to learn how Cleantech Open can help cleantech startups get going and growing! (Read Full Article)

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6. Boston Beer and Samuel Adams help out Simple Gifts Farm in Amherst, Elmartin Farm in Cheshire with microloans and advice Explore masslive.com (Apr 15 2013) Entrepreneurship It’s enough to make a farmer reach for a beer. Instead, brewer Jim Koch and his Samuel Adams Brewing the American Dream program reached out to Simple Gifts and to Elmartin Farm in Cheshire with small loans provided through Common Capital, a Holyoke based nonprofit small business lender. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Holyoke Community College   Amherst   Holyoke

7. Pioneers of innovation share ideas at TEDx UMass Amherst Explore masslive.com (Apr 14 2013) Entrepreneurship The conference – independently organized by UMass students to the form of the successful global non-profit, TED – invited innovative thinkers and pioneering entrepreneurs to share "ideas worth spreading" on the state university's flagship campus. The theme of the event was innovation. (Read Full Article)

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8. Mass Mentors: Volunteers to guide young people in short supply Explore masslive.com (Apr 8 2013) Entrepreneurship Martinez and his Mass Mentoring Partnership team were in Springfield last week to meet with 30 people at the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission offices to present the Mass Mentoring Counts 2012 report and network. Also attending were sponsors and board members, as well as representatives from agencies in Hampshire, Franklin, Hampden and Berkshire counties that match at-risk young people with mentors. The list includes Big Brothers/Big Sisters programs and the Boys & Girls Club Family Center in Springfield. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Pioneer Valley Planning Commission   Springfield   Amherst

9. 'The Judge' with Robert Downey Jr., Robert Duvall eyes Shelburne Falls, Western Massachusetts sites for filming Explore masslive.com (Apr 1 2013) Entrepreneurship "They are looking at several locations in Western Massachusetts right now. I am in touch with the location scouts," said Diane Pearlman, executive director of the Berkshire Film and Media Commission. (Read Full Article)

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10. Baystate Medical Center in Springfield teams up with entrepreneurs to improve medical devices Explore masslive.com (Mar 20 2013) Education , Entrepreneurship , Medical Devices DeBusk, a trauma surgeon at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, is participating in a new program that will allow certain entrepreneurs to "shadow" physicians as they work in a hospital. The entrepreneurs will be seeking to develop new or improved medical devices or possibly startup companies in the field. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Baystate Health   Springfield   MassMedic

11. Valley Venture Mentors taking next step: a working space for fledgling innovators Explore masslive.com (Mar 18 2013) Entrepreneurship Valley Venture Mentors links burgeoning business owners like Muehlke not only with mentors who share a lifetime of business experience but also with other entrepreneurs who can serve as shoulders to cry on or as sounding boards for the next big idea. In two years, Valley Venture Mentors has graduated 14 teams, including Celia Grace. There are now eight teams in the mentoring program with another five having been accepted following auditions last week. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Springfield   Holyoke   Affiliated Chambers of Commerce of Greater Springfield

12. Holyoke Community College launches Network of Women Entrepreneurs Explore masslive.com (Feb 20 2013) Entrepreneurship Styffe said the networking group is not a “get together and chat” kind of thing, but a roll-up-your-sleeves endeavor where business owners and would-be business owners get together to talk about how to run a successful operation. The group walks participants through everything from setting up a business plan, forming a legally compliant business, creating a payroll system and dealing with payroll taxes, how to deal with the Internal Revenue Service, how to market the business, finding lending opportunities, global outsourcing, and more. The cost for the program is $10, and there is an open, rolling admission. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Holyoke Community College   Holyoke

13. MassChallenge 2013 to kick off with opening of applications - Boston Business Journal Explore The Business Journals (Feb 15 2013) Entrepreneurship Boston startup accelerator MassChallenge will launch its fourth year Wednesday, opening applications to startups which will ultimately compete for $1 million in cash awards.  The program plans to accept 125 startups again this year, which will receive mentorship and office space at the MassChallenge office in the South Boston Seaport. The program is funded by sponsors and does not take equity in the participating companies.  Applications open at 3 p.m. Wednesday. (Read Full Article)

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14. Western Mass. distiller Valley Vodka releases 'love'-flavored spirit - Boston Business Journal Explore The Business Journals (Feb 7 2013) Entrepreneurship Kozub's own business is now growing, and this week marks a milestone. The Massachusetts native is launching his first flavored vodka, called V-One Love, which contains notes of vanilla and rose.  Kozub has spent the past five years trying to come up with a good flavor, but finally settled on V-One Love. (Read Full Article)

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15. Carmel-Ann and Raymond Lariviere of Westfield relish their growing condiment business Explore masslive.com (Jan 23 2013) Entrepreneurship The downtown farmers market may be a distant memory during these cold days of winter, but zucchini relish fans can purchase the homemade concoction directly from the couple who created the delicacy that has gained a faithful following. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Westfield

16. Healthy Growth Pattern | BusinessWest Explore BusinessWest (Jan 18 2013) Entrepreneurship , Health Care Indeed, instead of going into business together and operating a single franchise of a growing national chain of urgent-care centers called Doctors Express — which was one of the options they discussed at that lunch — they decided instead to become what’s known as master franchisees, overseeing not a location of this chain, which offers an alternative to crowded emergency rooms and the primary-care physician’s office when it’s closed, but a region, in this case most of New England. (Read Full Article)

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17. Planting Seeds | BusinessWest Explore BusinessWest (Jan 3 2013) Entrepreneurship Specifically, as the entrepreneurs behind Valley Malt in Hadley since 2010, they are among maybe a half-dozen enterprises in the U.S. dedicated to malting barley on a small scale. Longtime home brewers who dreamed of opening a brewery featuring local hops and grain, they were surprised to find there was no local supplier for the ingredients they needed, so they decided to fill a market niche. (Read Full Article)

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18. Female Founders | BusinessWest Explore BusinessWest (Dec 28 2012) Entrepreneurship Although paths to entrepreneurship differ, the number of woman-owned businesses is on the rise. According to the American Express OPEN “State of Women-Owned Businesses” report, between 1997 and 2011 the number of women-owned firms increased by 50%, at a rate of 1.5 times the national average. And today, there are more than 7.8 million women-owned businesses in the U.S. that generate $1.2 trillion in sales each year. (Read Full Article)

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19. Fighting Spirit | BusinessWest Explore BusinessWest (Dec 4 2012) Entrepreneurship Paul Kozub says that, since the day he started his ambitious business venture, people haven’t been shy about asking him for a job.  “It’s understandable — this is the vodka business, and people think it’s sexy,” said Kozub, who took his brand, V-One, to the marketplace through Valley Vodka Inc. in 2005. “And what’s better than going into bars and buying people drinks and being out all the time?” (Read Full Article)

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20. A Developing Story | BusinessWest Explore BusinessWest (Nov 20 2012) Entrepreneurship People call it “the wedge.” That’s the name that’s historically been attached to the oddly shaped building within the former D. Mackintosh & Son textile complex off Gatehouse Road in Holyoke, which Steve Porter decided to make the home to his company, Porterhouse Media, in 2009. (Read Full Article)

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21. Massachusetts program helps banks lend to local businesses Explore masslive.com (Oct 15 2012) Entrepreneurship , Financial Services “This is about rewarding the heroes of the recession, community banks and small business,” State Treasurer Steven Grossman said during a recent meeting with The Republican’s Editorial Board. “Particularly because those will be the ones who will supply the Little League uniforms and the batting helmets. This is how you build the local economy.” (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   The Republican

22. Signature Sounds moves to Northampton | masslive.com Explore masslive.com (Sep 26 2012) Entrepreneurship The local music label has outgrown its Whately offices, where it began 18 years ago, and plunked itself down in the middle of the city's thriving artist community. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Northampton

23. Dream Weaver Explore BusinessWest (Aug 28 2012) Entrepreneurship More than a decade ago, after the downsizing of his family’s business, Serv-U, Steve Rosenkrantz was trying to decide what to do next. He knew he wanted to run his own business, but didn’t know exactly which path to take. He enlisted the help of a company called Entrepreneur’s Source, which links clients with franchises — and the franchise they linked him with was Entrepreneur’s Source. Since then, he’s helped dozens of couples and individuals take charge of their lives and turn dreams into reality. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   West Springfield   Springfield

24. Northampton start-up company CitySprout.com combines local food, high tech Explore masslive.com (Aug 27 2012) Entrepreneurship CitySprout is the brain-child of co-founders Will Trienens, Nathanial Trienens and Gabriel Odess-Gillett, tech savy proponents of the local food movement. The two Trienens, who are cousins, started their own Web company, FuzzProductions.com, before turning their thoughts to food, according to Jesse Mayhew, the spokesman for CitySprout. Nathaniel Trienens makes his home in Brooklyn but the other partners live in Northampton. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Northampton

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