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Hello,

Sorry for the long silence after we closed the Indiegogo campaign, but we have been busy getting organized for the next steps for the Mutual Guarantee Fund.

This email is the update on where we stand, plus news from the network:

- Indiegogo Mutual Guarantee Fund campaign update

- New chapter in Minneapolis

- Partnership Opportunity: MBA for Startup translations

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** INDIEGOGO MUTUAL GUARANTEE FUND CAMPAIGN

Thank you to all for your generous contributions, we were able to raise $8400 through Indiegogo, which translate after fees from Indiegogo (9% since we did not reach our stated goal of $25k) and Community Ventures (fiscal host - 7%) to $6854.92.

This amount is not the amount we were hoping for, but the feedback from entrepreneurs is that even this small amount can help. It can be used for example to pre-pay for services and get discounts that will allow cost reductions.

So we will keep $354.92 for miscellaneous administrative costs related to setting up the account and we will deposit $6500 into a 3 years CD account, to be used as a guarantee for a loan to an entrepreneur from within the Entrepreneur Commons ecosystem.

Details on the loan:

- 3 years loan, can be paid balloon (only interest are paid monthly until the loan is at maturation), no pre-payment penalty

- Interest rate is 4% (1% CD rate plus 3% bank fee to manage the loan)

- Loan documentation fee $495

The guarantee will be offered to an entrepreneur selected by his peers:

- If you are interested in being considered for getting the loan, please add information about your business at http://www.angelsoft.net (the platform we use to communicate within and across Entrepreneur Commons chapters - all Entrepreneur Commons members have access to the platform, if you do not please send an email to request access to marc@dangeard.com with reference to the chapter you belong to).

- Once we have all recommendations from the various chapters in, we will ask members to rate the businesses that applied, and the top rated entrepreneurs will decide among themselves who should get the loan.

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** A NEW CHAPTER IN MINNEAPOLIS

We are pleased to announce that we have a new chapter in Minneapolis: the Minneapolis chapter of Entrepreneur Commons already had 2 monthly meetings, with 5 entrepreneurs in the group who are committed to meeting every month. If you are interested in getting in touch with them, you can contact Liz Tufte at ltufte@gmail.com

A big thank you to Liz for getting this chapter going, and a warm welcome to the Minneapolis entrepreneurs who joined us.

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** PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITY: MBA FOR STARTUPS TRANSLATION

The London head of chapter - Zulfiqar Deo - has been working on an “MBA for Startup” book. He is now looking at getting the book translated into other languages. Russian and Portuguese translations are already under way, but other languages are still open for translation.

Zulfiqar is offering to share 15% of the book local revenues with members who will translate the book into their local language (or for the local EC chapter if this is done through collaborative work by the members of an EC chapter). For instance, the Athens chapter would get 15% for Greek activities from Greek translation, the Paris chapter would get 15%, etc... And Entrepreneur Commons main organization would get an additional 10% from the sales, which are the savings from not needing an editor for these local versions.

If you want more details, or would like to get involved, please contact Zulfiqar Deo at zooters@gmail.com

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OTHER RESOURCES FOR ENTREPRENEURS / ON GOING PROGRAMS FROM PARTNERS

** 1M/1M

Sramana Mitra is an entrepreneur and a strategy consultant who is sharing her experience with entrepreneurs through a free, weekly, online strategy roundtables program, and through her blog, and her Entrepreneur Journeys book series. All resources worth looking at.

http://www.sramanamitra.com/entrepreneurship-strategy-roundtables/

** Acceleration Coop

Acceleration Co-op is a global, filtered, virtual community of industry veterans and domain experts, motivated to focus on your challenges. Our goal: help entrepreneurs create successful new ventures; micro-cap companies grow faster; and expanding businesses attack new markets and new countries. Our value proposition: "Cross the finish-line faster, with less expenditure of capital, and fewer mistakes and missteps along the way - by leveraging the experience and market wisdom of our expert community."

Check them out at http://www.accelerationcoop.com/

** EntreOasis - The system that powers EntreOasis is the same system that powers Cisco Entrepreneurship Institute, and it contains valuable information on how to start and grow your business. This is a great resource that I recommend to your attention.

Check them out at http://www.entreoasis.com/ - and also check http://www.goventure.net/ for great games to train entrepreneurs

** Founders Space

Founders Space brings together founders, angels, VCs, attorneys, CFOs and other experts to answer the questions all founders have. Whenever an advisor answers a question for one founder, the answer is shared with the entire community and preserved in our database. This way the advisor is actually providing assistance to tens of thousands of founders now and into the future. Founders Space long term goal is to build a global platform, where startups and advisors work as virtual teams to enter and grow new markets, and where investors can efficiently discover the best matches for their investment goals.

Check them out at http://www.foundersspace.com/

** Parisoma

The pariSoma Innovation Loft is a great resource and network for entrepreneurs, freelancers, and startups in the SF Bay Area. Their collaborative coworking environment serves as a launching pad for startups, with services and events tailored to helping you get off the ground. It is home to an Entrepreneur Commons Chapter, Founders Round Tables by Founders Space, TEDxSoMa, and more. Check out their space & events at www.pariSoma.com

** StartupWeekend

Startup Weekend is a great program to beta test your idea, get it off the ground and/or get some early traction. It provides networking, resources and incentives for individuals and teams to go from idea to launch. Get connected with local developers, innovators and entrepreneurs. Build communities. Start companies.

http://startupweekend.org

** Supercoolschool

Our friends at Supercoolschool are providing a great and free service allowing all entrepreneurs to learn from each other through online classes where anyone can be a teacher or a student. They have now more that 100 videos of recorded classes.

http://startup.supercoolschool.com

** UrbanFire

UrbanFire workshop is one of the fastest, most effective methods of writing a business plan for functionality. What a business plan should be is one that speaks to your soul and helps you to realize how your dreams can be turned into a lifetime of passionate pursuits, realistic and concrete - a plan that helps you to launch your business, get it functioning and feel like it's the very heart of what you should be doing. In a matter of four Saturdays during July for four hours each session, you can walk away with a fully develop Start-Up Plan to get your business idea off the ground or to re-energize your business with focus and retooling.

For more information:

http://urbanfire.org

** Venture Hacks

VentureHacks is the publisher of the ebook "Pitching Hacks". They are also building a list of startups that is published to Angel investors, and you can register here:

http://venturehacks.com/intro

** WickedStart gives people who have not started businesses before a roadmap of 10 steps to create a start-up. At each step are resources to help the entrepreneur, a community to ask questions, and more.

Check them out at http://wickedstart.com

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Thank you to Foley Lardner LLC, KL Gates, Parisoma and Regus for their support of Entrepreneur Commons.

And as always, thanks to you for being part of this movement, nothing will happen without you.

Please consider forwarding this email to your friends to let them know about Entrepreneur Commons.

Marc Dangeard

Founder Entrepreneur Commons

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Hello,

Tomorrow is the last day for our mutual guarantee fund campaign. If you have not contributed to the campaign yet, now is the time:
http://www.indiegogo.com/Guarantee-Fund-for-Entrepreneur-Commons-2

Regardless of how much the final number is, we will move forward with the process, so get ready for next steps: all entrepreneurs interested in getting a loan should submit their project through their local chapter. I will send details shortly to confirm how to do this.
Project recommended by local chapters will be voted on and the project identified as having the most chances of success (=paying back the loan) will get the money.

A big thank you to all contributors on the campaign.

Thank you to Foley Lardner LLC, KL Gates, Goldstein Business Immigration, Parisoma and NextSpace for their support of Entrepreneur Commons local chapters.
Thank you to Community Ventures for being the fiscal host for our Indiegogo campaign.
Thank you to TheHouse001 for producing the video for the campaign.

And as always, thanks to you for being part of this movement, nothing will happen without you.

Please consider forwarding this email to your friends to let them know about Entrepreneur Commons.

Marc Dangeard
Founder Entrepreneur Commons

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Just a quick note to let you know that Entrepreneur Commons is project of the day on Indiegogo.

From their twitter account (@indiegogo):

>>
Project of the Day: Entrepreneur Commons Mutual Guarantee Fund http://ow.ly/4idRH

Please retweet, share on Facebook, and forward to your friends via email.
You can also retweet what we tweeted from the Entreco account (@entreco):

>>
#Entreco mutual guarantee fund is project of the day on @Indiegogo, please retweet! http://ow.ly/4idRH !mx1001

And of course, please consider contributing. Our goal is to get an average of $100 from 300 entrepreneurs. If you have already contributed $25, consider contributing $100 or maybe an additional $25. If you have already done your share, please talk to fellow entrepreneurs, as it will be helping all of us ultimately.
http://www.indiegogo.com/Guarantee-Fund-for-Entrepreneur-Commons-2

Best
Marc

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Hello,

I am very pleased to announce that we are getting great support from many people for our mutual guarantee fund campaign on Indiegogo:
- support from Bo Burlingham and Bill Liao
- support from Melcion Chassagne & Cie
- a great resource for entrepreneurs: http://www.entreoasis.com/

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** BO BURLINGHAM AND BILL LIAO ARE SUPPORTING OUR CAMPAIGN

Bo Burlingham, author of the famous "Small Giants - companies that choose to be great instead of big", and editor at large at Inc magazine sent his contribution, and said:
>>
Fascinating idea, Marc. Sort of a Grameen Bank for the rest of us. I sent in my contribution and urge others to do the same.

Bill Liao, one of the co-founders of Xing (the LinkedIn from Europe), also founder of Neo.org and Weforrest.org, also sent his contribution and said:
>>
The mutual guarantee fund model proposed by Entrepreneur Commons is a great way to create the conditions needed to create an eco system in which entrepreneurs can dispel the bonds of scarcity and as a result thrive.

If you have not done so yet, I hope that you will join them and contribute to our mutual guarantee fund campaign too:
http://www.indiegogo.com/Guarantee-Fund-for-Entrepreneur-Commons-2

And when you do, make sure to share the news with your friends through Twitter and Facebook. Most contributions come from people we talked to, through the chapter meetings, or through personal communication.

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** MELCION CHASSAGNE & CIE WILL GIVE US $1000 WHEN WE REACH $6350 (MATCHING CONTRIBUTION)

The partners of Melcion Chassagne & Cie support the Mutual Guarantee Fund campaign and they have offered to match the next $1000 donations with another $1000 of their own, so a new "hero" for the campaign is on the way. We will get their contribution as soon as we reach $6350, so please jump it now and ask your friend to do so too.

Note that this is a great way for us to get to our goal faster: if we can find corporate sponsors for the campaign we can get larger contributions into the campaign. If you know of corporations, law offices, accounting firms or other who could be interested in sponsoring the Mutual Guarantee Fund campaign on Indiegogo, please send them our info:
http://www.indiegogo.com/Guarantee-Fund-for-Entrepreneur-Commons-2

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** A GREAT RESOURCE FOR ENTREPRENEURS: http://www.goventure.net/

During the Future of Entrepreneurship Education Summit last month I met a representative of MediaSpark, the people behind GoVenture - http://www.goventure.net/ and EntreOasis - http://www.entreoasis.com/ . The system that powers EntreOasis is the same system that powers Cisco Entrepreneurship Institute, and it contains valuable information on how to s tart and grow your business. This is a great resource that I recommend to your attention.

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OTHER RESOURCES FOR ENTREPRENEURS / ON GOING PROGRAMS FROM PARTNERS

** 1M/1M
Sramana Mitra is an entrepreneur and a strategy consultant who is sharing her experience with entrepreneurs through a free, weekly, online strategy roundtables program, and through her blog, and her Entrepreneur Journeys book series. All resources worth looking at.
http://www.sramanamitra.com/entrepreneurship-strategy-roundtables/

** Acceleration Coop
Acceleration Co-op is a global, filtered, virtual community of industry veterans and domain experts, motivated to focus on your challenges. Our goal: help entrepreneurs create successful new ventures; micro-cap companies grow faster; and expanding businesses attack new markets and new countries. Our value proposition: "Cross the finish-line faster, with less expenditure of capital, and fewer mistakes and missteps along the way - by leveraging the experience and market wisdom of our expert community."
Check them out at http://www.accelerationcoop.com/

** EntreOasis
EntreOasis is your central source of information, resources, and social networking for the global entrepreneurship community. EntreOasis offers you the best the world has to offer all in one place. Everything you need when you need it to learn about or facilitate entrepreneurship, or to start or grow your own business is here. Check them out at http://www.entreoasis.com/

** Founders Space
Founders Space brings together founders, angels, VCs, attorneys, CFOs and other experts to answer the questions all founders have. Whenever an advisor answers a question for one founder, the answer is shared with the entire community and preserved in our database. This way the advisor is actually providing assistance to tens of thousands of founders now and into the future. Founders Space long term goal is to build a global platform, where startups and advisors work as virtual teams to enter and grow new markets, and where investors can efficiently discover the best matches for their investment goals.
Check them out at http://www.foundersspace.com/

** Parisoma
The pariSoma Innovation Loft is a great resource and network for entrepreneurs, freelancers, and startups in the SF Bay Area. Their collaborative coworking environment serves as a launching pad for startups, with services and events tailored to helping you get off the ground. It is home to an Entrepreneur Commons Chapter, Founders Round Tables by Founders Space, TEDxSoMa, and more. Check out their space & events at www.pariSoma.com

** StartupWeekend
Startup Weekend is a great program to beta test your idea, get it off the ground and/or get some early traction. It provides networking, resources and incentives for individuals and teams to go from idea to launch. Get connected with local developers, innovators and entrepreneurs. Build communities. Start companies.
http://startupweekend.org

** Supercoolschool
Our friends at Supercoolschool are providing a great and free service allowing all entrepreneurs to learn from each other through online classes where anyone can be a teacher or a student. They have now more that 100 videos of recorded classes.
http://startup.supercoolschool.com

** UrbanFire
UrbanFire workshop is one of the fastest, most effective methods of writing a business plan for functionality. What a business plan should be is one that speaks to your soul and helps you to realize how your dreams can be turned into a lifetime of passionate pursuits, realistic and concrete - a plan that helps you to launch your business, get it functioning and feel like it's the very heart of what you should be doing. In a matter of four Saturdays during July for four hours each session, you can walk away with a fully develop Start-Up Plan to get your business idea off the ground or to re-energize your business with focus and retooling.
For more information:
http://urbanfire.org

** Venture Hacks
VentureHacks is the publisher of the ebook "Pitching Hacks". They are also building a list of startups that is published to Angel investors, and you can register here:
http://venturehacks.com/intro

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Thank you to Foley Lardner LLC, KL Gates, Parisoma and Regus for their support of Entrepreneur Commons.

And as always, thanks to you for being part of this movement, nothing will happen without you.
Please consider forwarding this email to your friends to let them know about Entrepreneur Commons.

Marc Dangeard
Founder Entrepreneur Commons
$30k by May 1st 2011 to launch a mutual guarantee fund!

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Almost one month after the announcement of the Startup America Partnership I watched yesterday the webinar that was supposed to tell us everything about what is going on. Except so far there is not much coming out, and most of all no transparency in the process. The whole thing is managed by the Case Foundation and Kauffman foundation, we know that much. But then how can you participate? 

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Hello,

A lot is happening on the campaign, and I am sending this quick note to let you know that thanks to the activity generated by all of you who are supporting us by contributing and sharing news about the campaign to your friends, the campaign is now featured on the indiegogo homepage.
Check it out here: http://www.indiegogo.com

This additional visibility should help us increase awareness about the project, and reach our fundraising goal faster, ideally even exceed it. Thank you for all the help, and if you have not done so yet, please contribute and share with your friends:
http://www.indiegogo.com/Guarantee-Fund-for-Entrepreneur-Commons-2

Best
Marc

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Hello,

I am happy to report that our campaign to raise the mutual guarantee fund is doing good, and we are now at $2650, including a $1000 from one generous "hero". Thank you to all of you who have already contributed.

If you are registered to this list you have some interest in Entrepreneur Commons, and what we are doing to support entrepreneurs, including what we are trying to do on the funding side.

And if this is the case, could you contribute $25 (or more, you can be a hero too) to the campaign? You can do it here:

http://www.indiegogo.com/Guarantee-Fund-for-Entrepreneur-Commons-2

Note that this is a tax deductible contribution.

** Why you should contribute? **

- This mutual guarantee fund is for entrepreneurs and it could be you: you today, or you tomorrow if you are just getting started, or maybe the you from a few years ago when you were looking for funding for your venture.

- And if this entrepreneur is not you, you should still contribute because entrepreneurs are the vital force of our economy, and we need to reduce the barriers to entry into entrepreneurship to build a better future for every one of us. Funding is one of these barriers.

** you can do more **

Now that we are talking about working together on this, and while I will keep sending email to people I know who could be interested in contributing, the campaign would be even more successful if everyone on this list sets a goal for himself or herself to raise at least $100 through direct donation or through contributions from personal connections.

Note that this would also help us get featured on the indiegogo site as they measure the activity level of a campaign, number of updates and the pace at which the money is getting raised. If we can be on the front page of the Indiegogo website it will be all the more publicity for Entrepreneur Commons. And I am sure that once we have raised the money we will get a lot of attention and a lot more donations from people outside of the current ecosystem, so that we can do more loans to more of you.

** some clarifications **

During these first few days I was asked 2 questions:

1. Why $25k loan when we raise $30k?

Indiegogo is taking 4% commission on the raise if it is successful, and 9% if we do not reach our goal. That's $1200. Then Community Ventures, which is hosting the project so that it can be tax deductible, is taking 7% management fee, which is another $2100. So after fees we have $26700, of which I figured we should set aside some amount to pay for legal costs (contract for the loan), and therefore $25k is what comes out to be the right number. It is also a good number because this is on average what it tooks for the companies who made the Inc Top 5000 list to get into the list. Average does not mean that it will be enough for everybody, but it is a good amount for a lot of projects.

2. I was asked why not raise more, and why not leverage the money with the bank.

- Raising more can be done, but it does not have to be done in this campaign. Raising more through one campaign would be taking the risk of not reaching the goal set, and pay 9% fee instead of 4% fee. Not a good idea. But of course we will not stop at $25k

- Leveraging the money will happen. For example in Europe the bank will be happy if the mutual guarantee represents between 2% and 8% of the total loan amount, So we can get a nice leverage as we move forward. But it will take establishing a track record of low default. The first loan may be no leverage, but we will get it more and more as we go. This is the whole point of starting now and implementing the process so that we can get to that next level.

** it's time to join **

If you have read this far, you have already done most of the work, so please join us and start with a contribution here:

http://www.indiegogo.com/Guarantee-Fund-for-Entrepreneur-Commons-2

And then let's have fun with the campaign and let's see who can raise the most money :-)

Best

Marc

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Hello,

Now that 2011 is under way, here are a few updates on what we is happening with Entrepreneur Commons.
In this email:
- a Mutual Guarantee Fund for US entrepreneurs
- a chapter at NextSpace in San Francisco
- a new batch of videos from Incubate 2.0
- new from our partners: Launch Silicon Valley 2011 is coming up
- news from our partners: Parisoma has moved
- news from our partners: ShareYourOffice launched

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** A MUTUAL GUARANTEE FUND FOR ENTREPRENEURS IN THE US
I am very happy to announce that we have found a fiscal sponsor that will allow Entrepreneur Commons to raise money through Indiegogo for a mutual guarantee fund.
We have now officially launched the campaign here: http://goo.gl/Jx7ht
The money will be collected by Community Ventures and will be placed into a CD account at a partner bank to serve as a guarantee for a loan.
We are looking for $30k which will allow us to do one loan of $25k to one entrepreneur in the US. And while this is very limited in scope and a not-so-big amount, it is a big step forward that will allow us to implement the peer-selection process. And it is a simple solution that we may be able to implement for other countries.
Whether you can or cannot contribute money, please join us and share the info with your friends and family so that we can raise the money: you can tweet, post the info on your facebook page, and email your friends to let as many people as possible know about what we are doing.
Note that Community Ventures is a 501c3 so donations may be deductible.

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** A NEW CHAPTER AT NEXTSPACE IN SAN FRANCISO
We now have an Entrepreneur Commons chapter hosted at NextSpace in San Francisco. The chapter is meeting on the first Wednesday of every month.
NextSpace is a coworking space targeting freelancers, entrepreneurs, and creative class professionals - http://www.nextspace.us

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** A NEW BATCH OF VIDEOS FROM INCUBATE 2.0
The final set of videos that were produced after the Incubate 2.0 conference that happened in November have finally been published on the StartupCause website at http://video.startupcause.org
The most popular videos overall remains the “No Straight Lines” talk by Alan Moore - http://goo.gl/8KnRQ and the one from the New Money panel - http://goo.gl/m9Wnc
The most viewed in recent weeks are “The truth about business plans” http://goo.gl/fCFaK and the HP Startup Central presentation http://goo.gl/KczFY

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NEWS FROM OUR PARTNERS:

** COMING UP SOON: LAUNCH SILICON VALLEY 2011
The Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs (SVASE) announced that SVASE’s annual product launch platform for startups from around the world, Launch: Silicon Valley 2011, will be held June 7, 2011 at Microsoft in Mountain View, California.

Launch: Silicon Valley 2011 is designed to uncover and showcase products and services from the most exciting of the newest startups in information technology, mobility, digital media, next generation internet, life sciences and clean energy.
In addition to extensive exposure to the media, corporate executives, and potential investors, companies voted “most likely to succeed” in their category will win the equivalent of over $10,000 worth of sponsor-supported prizes.

Companies interested in presenting their products at Launch: Silicon Valley 2011 should send an Executive Summary of no more than two pages to Launchsv@svase.org by April 29, 2011. Further details available at www.launchsiliconvalley.org

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** PARISOMA HAS MOVED
Our friends at Parisoma just moved to a brand new and much bigger space. You can go and check it out at 169 11th St. You can also learn more here: http://goo.gl/DWsQQ

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** FABERNOVEL LAUNCHED SHAREYOUROFFICE.COM
www.shareyouroffice.com is a free website for professionals looking to share their office space. The site is gathering in one place shared office rental listings from small teams and startups that are expanding or from larger companies that have extra office space to offer.

----------

OTHER RESOURCES FOR ENTREPRENEURS / ON GOING PROGRAMS FROM PARTNERS

** 1M/1M
Sramana Mitra is an entrepreneur and a strategy consultant who is sharing her experience with entrepreneurs through a free, weekly, online strategy roundtables program, and through her blog, and her Entrepreneur Journeys book series. All resources worth looking at.
http://www.sramanamitra.com/entrepreneurship-strategy-roundtables/

** Acceleration Coop
Acceleration Co-op is a global, filtered, virtual community of industry veterans and domain experts, motivated to focus on your challenges. Our goal: help entrepreneurs create successful new ventures; micro-cap companies grow faster; and expanding businesses attack new markets and new countries. Our value proposition: "Cross the finish-line faster, with less expenditure of capital, and fewer mistakes and missteps along the way - by leveraging the experience and market wisdom of our expert community."
Check them out at http://www.accelerationcoop.com/

** Founders Space
Founders Space brings together founders, angels, VCs, attorneys, CFOs and other experts to answer the questions all founders have. Whenever an advisor answers a question for one founder, the answer is shared with the entire community and preserved in our database. This way the advisor is actually providing assistance to tens of thousands of founders now and into the future. Founders Space long term goal is to build a global platform, where startups and advisors work as virtual teams to enter and grow new markets, and where investors can efficiently discover the best matches for their investment goals.
Check them out at http://www.foundersspace.com/

** Parisoma
The pariSoma Innovation Loft is a great resource and network for entrepreneurs, freelancers, and startups in the SF Bay Area. Their collaborative coworking environment serves as a launching pad for startups, with services and events tailored to helping you get off the ground. It is home to an Entrepreneur Commons Chapter, Founders Round Tables by Founders Space, TEDxSoMa, and more. Check out their space & events at www.pariSoma.com

** StartupWeekend
Startup Weekend is a great program to beta test your idea, get it off the ground and/or get some early traction. It provides networking, resources and incentives for individuals and teams to go from idea to launch. Get connected with local developers, innovators and entrepreneurs. Build communities. Start companies.
http://startupweekend.org

** Supercoolschool
Our friends at Supercoolschool are providing a great and free service allowing all entrepreneurs to learn from each other through online classes where anyone can be a teacher or a student. They have now more that 100 videos of recorded classes.
http://startup.supercoolschool.com

** UrbanFire
UrbanFire workshop is one of the fastest, most effective methods of writing a business plan for functionality. What a business plan should be is one that speaks to your soul and helps you to realize how your dreams can be turned into a lifetime of passionate pursuits, realistic and concrete - a plan that helps you to launch your business, get it functioning and feel like it's the very heart of what you should be doing. In a matter of four Saturdays during July for four hours each session, you can walk away with a fully develop Start-Up Plan to get your business idea off the ground or to re-energize your business with focus and retooling.
For more information:
http://urbanfire.org

** Venture Hacks
VentureHacks is the publisher of the ebook "Pitching Hacks". They are also building a list of startups that is published to Angel investors, and you can register here:
http://venturehacks.com/intro

----------

Thank you to Foley Lardner LLC, KL Gates, Parisoma and Regus for their support of Entrepreneur Commons.

And as always, thanks to you for being part of this movement, nothing will happen without you.
Please consider forwarding this email to your friends to let them know about Entrepreneur Commons.

Marc Dangeard
Founder Entrepreneur Commons
300 chapters by May 1st 2011 to create jobs on a large scale!

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