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FACE BRA ENTREPRENEUR HAPPY AS A PAIR OF TITS!

FACE BRA HOLDS THEM SAGGING CHEEKS!

New Bra -- Worn on the Face – Aims to Help Women Age Gracefully and Without Surgery.
According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, last year a record number of women turned to surgery, injections, and other invasive procedures in their quest for a more youthful appearance.
But thanks to a new beauty innovation called "The Face Bra" (www.thefacebra.com), women can now smooth away wrinkles, lift sagging jowls, and freshen aging complexions without resorting to jabs with Botox™ or painful nip and tuck sessions. .

"Women want to age gracefully, and most consider surgery as a very last resort," said Florida entrepreneur Vicki Southard, creator of the Face Bra. "I was never a fan of cosmetic surgery, so I decided to create a non-invasive system to lift the face and tighten the complexion - a simple procedure that didn’t require a visit to a surgeon’s office.

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SIR RICHARD COULD BE PIMPING ON HIS ISLAND.....BUT HE'S NOT!

Richard Branson Throws First $32mil To Planet Earth!

Sir Richard Branson, famous for his sometimes burlesque behavior, is readying the first $32 million (from the $3B billion initially promised) for anyone who finds the best solution(s) to the global warming problem. The owner of Virgin group of companies is trying to gathera lot of scientists in his fight against the greenhouse effect and the carbon dioxide that is provoking it.

Branson announced the Earth Challenge prize at a London news conference with former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, who made the global warming film "An Inconvenient Truth," the BBC reported Friday.
"Man created the problem and therefore man should solve the problem," he told a news conference to reveal the Virgin Earth Challenge.

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HIT PRODUCER JERMAINE DUPRI NAMED PRESIDENT ISLAND RECORDS URBAN MUSIC

JERMAINE DUPRI IS COFOUNDER ENTREPRENEUR OF THE WEEK!

It producer and sometime rapper Jermaine Dupri has been named president of Island Record Urban Music, a newly created division of Island Def Jam Music Group. Dupri, who has produced chart-topping songs for artists ranging from Usher to Mariah Carey, also reunited with Island Def Jam Chairman Antonio "L.A." Reid.

"We are very fortunate to have Jermaine in our fold," Reid told The Associated Press on Wednesday. "There's a strong relationship between us already, which makes this move even better for the team."
This is the third senior management move for Dupri in four years. In 2003 he was named senior vice president of Arista Records, when Reid headed the label.

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JOHN BATTELLE BACKS BLOGGERS!

GET PAID BLOGGING?

Battelle is at the forefront of a movement attempting to answer one of the Web's most vexing questions: How do you turn blogging into a day job? Millions of people publish blogs and other niche Web sites, but they struggle to make a living from their passion.

Battelle thinks his new company, Federated Media Publishing Inc., can be part of the solution. The Sausalito (Calif.) startup is signing up hundreds of the best sites and selling their ad space to brand-name advertisers such as IBM (IBM ), Absolut, and Hewlett-Packard (HPQ ). Federated Media doesn't own the blogs, as do other blogging networks such as Gawker.com, but it keeps 40% of the ad revenue and gives the rest to the site's owner. "It's kind of like a music label, except we don't control their intellectual property and tell them what to sing," says Battelle.

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KIDZART Honored by ENTREPRENEUR MAGAZINE

KidzArt reps Entrepreneurs Worldwide!

February 5, 2007 -- KidzArt, a fine arts enrichment franchise company for kids of all ages, was named to Entrepreneur Magazine's 2007 Top New Franchise List. The ranking represents the third year in a row that Entrepreneur Magazine has recognized the KidzArt franchise.

It's an honor to again be recognized by Entrepreneur. The high rating validates our system's growth, strength and commitment to our franchisees
KidzArt placed #50 among the top companies that started franchising since 2002, ranked by their scores during the past five years of the annual Entrepreneur's Franchise 500®. The Entrepreneur survey is considered one of the best and most comprehensive rankings available and is based on factors including financial strength and stability, growth rate, and size of system.

"It's an honor to again be recognized by Entrepreneur. The high rating validates our system's growth, strength and commitment to our franchisees," says KidzArt CEO, Shell Herman.

KidzArt was previously ranked the Top Children's Art Franchise in Entrepreneur Magazine's Franchise 500 for 2006.

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VENTURE CAPITAL's APPETITE GROWS

VENTURE CAPITAL WANTS MORE AND MORE.....

Silicon Valley's archetype for drawing venture funding has long been two guys in a garage—from Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) founders Bill Hewlett and David Packard to the brains behind Google (GOOG), Larry Page and Sergey Brin. But judging from recent trends, that template may be subject to revision.

Some of the biggest venture capital firms are raising large funds, targeting more established companies, and increasingly setting their sights abroad. That's the finding of recent research by Dow Jones (DJ) VentureOne.

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GET $$$ FROM THE GOVERNMENT!

THE GOVERNMENT WANTS MORE ENTREPRENEURS!

Web sites for entrepreneurs from Kathleen Schweikert, a graduate assistant at Rowan University's Rohrer College of Business:

America's Small Business Center (www.smallbusinesscenter.com). This site links to government programs that can provide funding through loans or grants.

Income Statement Template (www.toolkit.cch.com). A downloadable template for an income statement.

BusinessPartners.com (www.BusinessPartners.net). Connects entrepreneurs, start-up companies and established firms with venture capitalists, angel investors, potential business partners and corporate investors.

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THE IDEA GUYS CHANGE HOLLYWOOD

LifeCapture Entreprenuers Get Videos Online

What's it like to run a company that's grown 800 per cent over the last 24 months, from a staff of eight a year ago, to 21 people today?

Geoff Whitlock, 28, president and CEO of Lifecapture Interactive, a thriving Web agency, knows.

It's like riding a bronc – a bit wild, at times. You're not sure what's going to happen next. That's why the Star asked Thomas Åstebro, 43, associate professor of strategic management at U of T's Rotman School of Business, to assess how Whitlock and his team of four partners are managing their growth.

Åstebro teaches students how to build businesses and writes business plans for entrepreneurs. He comes from a long line of world-renowned entrepreneurs: he's Swedish, and it was interesting talking to him about the great Swedish contributions to the global economy, from dynamite to ball bearings to IKEA, the largest furniture retailer in the world.

(IKEA was founded in 1943 by 17-year-old Ingvar Kamprad, whose entrepreneurial instincts emerged when he was even younger, selling matches and pencils. Today, Kamprad is one of the richest men in the world but, as Åstebro pointed out, has long since left Sweden, because of its tax policies, and resides in Switzerland.)

For Lifecapture, it all began in May, 2003, when five talented Canucks had an idea about how to do business on the Internet. Whitlock and Josh Eady, now 30, were living in an industrial loft on Adelaide St. West that became their headquarters.............

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YOUNG PEOPLE DO IT THEIR WAY!

YOUTH UPRISING THEIR WAY ON THEIR TIME!

Ahh! High School isn't what it used to be! In a 2006 poll of 1,474 middle and high school students, youth entrepreneurship organization Junior Achievement found that 70.9 percent would like to be self-employed at some point in their lives. That's up from 68.6 percent in 2005 and 64 percent in 2004. The National Association for the Self-Employed projects its ranks will increase to about 250,000 members by the end of 2006, up from 100,000 in 1988.

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WEB STATS SUCK!

WEB STATS LIKE ALEXA KINDA BLOW!

Over at NewTeeVee, Om and Liz share some interesting data on the relative market shares of the top video sharing sites. In particular, Compete.com has produced a market share analysis of the top 20 video web sites.

What’s interesting about the Compete.com data are how the rankings differ from Compete’s own ranking data produced at the Compete site (admittedly the market share analysis appears to be a special study, not something pulled from Compete’s search engine tool) and how completely different the data are from the leading web-based traffic measurement tool, Alexa (which has lots of well-documented methodological flaws).

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