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6 Stories of Successful New Entrepreneurs to Inspire Your Business

Up and Running

An engineering services firm, TRISTAR is the first woman and minority-owned firm based in Indiana to offer the Department of Defense (DoD) technical support services. In 1998, a few years after launching, the company got a $200,000 SBA-guaranteed loan. In addition, those funds enabled the company to open a DC field office.

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Hazards of Hiring

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But in a small company that is funded by its own revenues, it is almost always a mistake to hire for a position before it is absolutely clear that hiring is the right thing to do. Sometimes all our indicators are positive, but the employee just doesnt work out. This is an easy mistake to make. Version 7.0 We look at past experience.

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