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10 lessons I learned by taking the entrepreneurial Red Pill

The Next Web

One of the things I found most valuable from participating in the Founder Institute was a lesson about the Golden Circle by Simon Sinek. We all know these people, most often working at large corporates or even the government. Back in 1994, when Jeff Bezos started Amazon, he had to raise money from 22(!) Mind the overlap.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #9: How, and why, to ask for help

Austin Startup

Jacob went from intern to our head of marketing in Europe and today he is the co-founder and CEO of Wisecrack , a company we are proud to be backers of. minute long interview with Steve Jobs from 1994 has been floating around the Web recently and I love it. But I digress. Our founding fathers were very ambitious entrepreneurs.

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43 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

The co-owners, including myself, put our heads together to create a first-of-its-kind integrated digital marketing and PR agency, catering to both start-up and seasoned franchise companies. I am a big advocate of transparency in business and government and believe that many injustices in our society exist because people are ill informed.