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18 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I moved to the United States in my late teens and my first job was as a cleaner. Now, we can share our proven business model with people everywhere. I became a business owner because I could. I grew up in Minas Gerais, Brazil and my mother was a cleaner in my home town. I just wanted to simplify everything.

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Startup America – Dead On Arrival

Steve Blank

Microsoft did not open a Washington office until 1995. Small Business Entrepreneurship. Today, the overwhelming number of entrepreneurs and startups in the United States are still small businesses. million small businesses in the U.S. Their job is to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.

America 321
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Stop Bad-mouthing the Millenial Generation and Read the Facts

Up and Running

Yet 72 percent said that the classes they’d taken didn’t adequately prepare them to start a business, and most didn’t think enough support was available from the government and banks. Whether Millennials, our largest generation at 80 million strong, can harness their enthusiasm into viable businesses models remains to be seen.

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

2018 set yet another all-time record for the number of paper books sold in the United States, as has been repeatedly true during the era of Amazon. What makes this tricky is that markets evolve, and an innovative technology or business model can transform a normal market into a Glengarry Glen Ross market.

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Howard Charney on Cisco, Growth, and Cloud Computing

Austin Startup

Five years ago, almost no one was talking about cloud – but today it is increasingly strategic for a broad range of industries, for academia, for governments. The “Cloud” is a fairly disruptive model and it will take people time to understand how best to adapt to it and benefit from it. billion business.

Cloud 74