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If there are best practices in entrepreneurship, you’ll hear the secrets to them in this coverage of the first half of the recent Venture Voice Startup Workshop in New York City. If there are in fact no best practices for entrepreneurs, then you’ll at least enjoy the heated discussion about how entrepreneurs should navigate the startup seas. These passionate speakers fielded a day’s worth of questions and opinions from Venture Voice, each other and the spirited audience. The results are distilled ideas about what it takes to win in business, great war stories and even a few laughs.

Jeff Cornwall, a professor of entrepreneurship, reminds us that "entrepreneur" is just a noun. A farmer can farm, but we can't simply say we're off to go entrepreneur.

Howard Dean is often credited with being among the first to tap the power of the Internet to further the goals of a political campaign. It didn't end well for Mr. Dean, and I'm not even sure he deserves all the credit he gets for injecting the Internet into politics. I am convinced, however, that he was on to a big idea. Since the 2004 Presidential race, there has been very little discussion in

Green can mean a lot of things to an entrepreneur. You can have a "green thumb" which means any business you're involved in will grow and make money. You can be "be green" as in inexperienced. To a new crop of entrepreneurs, however, being green means creating a business that benefits the environment.

"How can I top this?" was perhaps the only big question left on Bill Gates's mind after his tremendous success with Microsoft. Venture capitalist Bart Schachter wrote in a hilarious PE Week Wire column that his colleagues should thank God (or Gates for that matter) that Bill did not decide to become a VC as many successful entrepreneurs do.