EdX Tech Entrepreneurial Courses and Earn $1000 from Amazon Web Services

Aspiring Technology Entrepreneurs Can Now Join Entrepreneurship Courses and Earns Credits from Amazon.

An interesting opportunity for any Entrepreneur that may be thinking of starting their business, by having an idea with the most appropriate skills can really help the path to success. 

In this context, there is an offer via a partnership between Amazon Web Services and the online education portal EdX . The offer comprises of $1,000 in credit for completing one of two courses. The courses are in Entrepreneurship 101 or 102 at EdX. In order to take advantage of the offer Entrepreneurs are required to pass the courses, which in turn will entitle them automatically with $1,000 in credit to spend on processor time and/or storage in Amazon’s cloud.

Furthermore, Entrepreneurs also receive extra bonuses which might be more relevant for those with software code development experience for administrating infrastructure, and instructor led training with web classes on using Amazon Web Services, also free support at Amazon premium tier, that includes Amazon specialists that can help design and architect an app or service for Amazon instances.

The EdX course offer is detailed here on this link Amazon Offer from EdX and also links directly to the classes. The couses start on January 9, 2015, so there is sufficient time to look through the course syllabus before committing.
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Welcome to Microsoft Ventures to Help New Business Flourish

The global phenomenon of promoting and encouraging Entrepreneurship keeps increasing and is a very popular choice for most daring, creative and multi-skilled individuals.

 

Companies like Microsoft are ever more understanding and extending their arms to understand and help this global growth by encompassing new raw talent which consists of such much potential when fine tuned and supported correctly even if with custom offers to suit specific interested parties.

 

Any idea and Entrepreneurial business are always evolving so it is important to offer the correct solutions and not to generalize offerings, and this is where Microsoft has been learning and accommodating by popular demand it case for innovation, which is particularly difficult for such a large organization however they appear to be trying quite hard and focused in order to become ever more appealing with their technology and innovative solutions. Particularly in the applications development market.  

As a result today, Microsoft is announcing the creation of Microsoft Ventures, which consists of a solution that offers tools, resources, expertise and routes to market. Alongside specific help with mentorship, guidance, seed funding, joint selling opportunities among other benefits.

Microsoft Ventures is a top level approach to business development which includes a community evangelism program and BizSpark.  The popular program of BizSpark on its own also to continue to offer access to Microsoft tools and technologies.

For more information is available on The Official Microsoft Blog  and microsoftventures,

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UK Government Welcomes Russel Buckley on Venture Capital Arm

The UK Government is now partnering with the serial entrepreneur and investor Russell Buckley who is the co-founder of MobHappy, and in a blog post it stated here this participation in his new initiative. 

The UK Government’s Venture Capital Unit, which was launched in 2012, works in such a way that helps UK companies to attract funding from outside the UK, as a result address the funding capacity gap which can benefit early and relatively start-up status businesses. The Unit is led by Chris Wade. 

Below is the reaction of Russell Buckley in his blog post, where is intending to help IT companies in the UK.

So, trying to draw this together in one cogent theme, I’m planning to spend the next 10 years helping the UK to become a world class part of the tech scene and one which regularly produces mega-successes like the next Twitter, the next Facebook or the next Amazon. There’s plenty of reasons why The Valley has the advantage over us – early stage funding and a huge natural early adopter market, are my personal bugbears. But if we think big and harness the creativity and talent available, I believe it’s a realisable dream. Source

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Google for Entrepreneurs, Startup Businesses and Communities to Benefit

It was today launched by Google  a support framework called Google For Entrepreneurs, this new programme is directed to help startup businesses and entrepreneurs around the world. The way this new support programme works by permitting partnerships between leading local communities and Google leading employees, in such a way that an implementation of tools provided by Google can connect businesses and its people with specific tools that help entrepreneurial development.

In this context, it then follows that Google wishes to focus many of tools it has in its portfolio to be used, explored and developed by taking into consideration the usage pattern growth by startup businesses.   With this in mind, the entrepreneurial market already has some partnership examples such as Startup Weekend in the U.S., iHub in Kenya, Le Camping in France, and from this week, Women 2.0.

Included on this package framework, are the Google employees where they will organize events with the  Google for Entrepreneurs Week in mind, of which also includes organizations like Idea Village in New Orleans U.S., Communitech, Tetuan Valley Wroclaw, Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship Johannesburg and the Council Bluffs Chamber of Commerce.

Entrepreneur Success Guide

Success as an Entrepreneur requires inner steps:

Success can be interpreted as an analogy of an eclipse, where an alignment of light is accurately positioned in a timely manner.  However, it follows that most entrepreneurs and their businesses can be perceived as a result of market (macro) opportunities, nevertheless the entrepreneur goals and their timing cannot be necessarily related to macro conditions, rather their thrive to do well under any circumstances.

Micro timing considerations

Any entrepreneurs can always overcome bad market timings provided their plan, implementation and execution are well defined are constantly updated by taking into consideration innovation and creativity.

However, in many cases, entrepreneurs start their businesses when they’re inexperienced or when their personal situation either financial or family are at a critical stage or phase.

Difference between Intrapreneur and Entrepreneur

Many aspiring entrepreneurs will never possess the inner skills to be truly entrepreneurs, where they feel more comfortable with duties of constant service provision.  Intrapreneurs are people who can be very successful in large organizations as they benefit with the support from administration duties, structure, sales and marketing.

 Dealing with Challenges and Mistakes

 “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed” – Michael Jordan.

If mistakes demoralize you to the point of you wishing to surrounder and re-evaluating your decision then it is quite clear that being an entrepreneur is not withing you.

A failure can be a learning experience, or seriously dent entrepreneurs confidence.  In either case, winners always return from disappointments and overcome most challenges.  If you are an aspiring entrepreneur and this determination, confidence and creativity are not embedded in your system then entrepreneurship is almost certainly a way of life not suitable for you, or at least not now. Everyone can be an entrepreneur if they experience, understand and have vision in order to become a successful one.