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Here's some valuable advice for Startups from the King of the Ethernet Bob Metcalfe. Don’t be afraid of going up against entrenched incumbents, like he did with IBM, and its Token Ring technology. Long story short, Metcalfe and Ethernet won. Read about the disruptive technologies he thinks will change everything.

winner of IBM Global Entrepreneur Startup SmartCamp in Bangalore India. ConnectM's USP technology collects data remotely and uses domain specific analytics to deliver actionable business intelligence. ConnectM's solutions are powered by cutting edge M2M technology, that allow both wireless and wired systems to communicate with other devices of the same ability.

IBM’s global startup competition ‘world tour’ called SmartCamp kicks off in Bangalore on April 27. Slots for India are now full, but there are still openings in the next leg of the competition in Austin. You can take a look at all the Mentors that will be helping and get five SmartCamp tips to help you get your Startup accepted.

Startups fail often because they create a product or service that no one really wants in mass. To mitigate Startup failure you can test your Idea at Kickstarter - A cool place to not only test interest in your idea, but also a great place tp obtain croudsourced funding for your Startup. A good idea, communicated well on KickStarter can spread fast and wide, and the large Kickstarter community can be a tremendous source of money and encouragement.

As part of IBM’s ongoing commitment to foster innovation among Entrepreneurs, IBM announces its ‘SmartCamp’ contest in Bangalore, India on April 27, 2011. This is an exclusive global entrepreneur initiative program bringing together entrepreneurs, investors and experienced mentors with innovative ideas that can help to build a Smarter Planet.

Recently at CeBIT Hannover IBM announced that it would expand the IBM Global Entrepreneur Program to include Germany in 2011 effective immediately. With an amazing bunch of ecosystems partners we believe the German market offers a great opportunity for translating innovation and Entrepreneurship into scalable international businesses.

We are almost there in terms of confirming the mentors for SmartCamp Bangalore. We are delighted to present details of the mentors. This is an amazing collection of talent from the investor, corporate and most importantly entrepreneur communities.

Our first SmartCamp of 2011 will be in Bangalore, India in April. With a population of over 1 billion plus, and home to some of the biggest tech companies in world, it comes as no surprise that international investors have been actively enagaged with the local communitities for many years. We believe that our mentor network is a real goldmine and the best reason to apply for SmartCamp.

The panel has significant experience bringing US companies to foreign markets as well as into the US. They capture many of the Best Practices companies and city leaders should be thinking about as they look to find their unique place in this global marketplace.

Interpol has determined that in Nigeria 80% of all drugs are fake, and in Kenya fake drugs are big business with more than 11,000 illegal products sold every day. With millions of dollars worth of counterfeit drugs sold yearly, Sproxil's innovation is a greatly needed tech solution to a big problem that will save countless lives every day.

Announcing: The IBM Global Entrepreneur SmartCamp competitions for 2011. We are looking for entrepreneurs with global ambition and want to find ways to connect them to mentors, capital, and markets on a completely international basis. Here are the 9 cities which are a mixture of emerging markets and developed hubs. We have been overpowered by the excitement and support to help build these ecosystems.

The trip started in a very cold Kansas City before escaping a massive snow storm to make it to sunny Silicon Valley, before returning east to NYC and finally London. Way too many insights to list here however the one major takeaway from the trip was the level of excitement and energy around startups seems to be exploding.

CareCloud, the co-winner of the IBM Global Entrepreneur Silicon Valley SmartCamp competition in 2010, is a company that modernizes the workflow in a medical practice to put physicians in touch with each other across multiple points of care, through a Cloud Computing technology-based solution. "We feel our solution helps revolutionize the way physicians collaborate and share critical healthcare information," said Albert Santalo, president and chief executive officer, CareCloud. You can Learn more about the SmartCamp competitions in 2011 by joining the SmartCamp Community.

Before Super Bowl XLV, there was wide speculation about who would win the Super Bowl ads war between Groupon and LivingSocial. Most people were betting that Groupon would win Big-Time, and they did if you define winning, in this case, as making the biggest Bonehead marketing blunder of the year.

What's really cool about KickStarter is you have absolutely nothing to loose and everything to gain. All you have to do is present your Project/Startup idea, ask for the seed money you need, and like magic the masses of KisckStarter and the world give you a thumbs-up or down, and the Thumbs-Up can be very surprising indeed!