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24 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

My firm, atCommunications, LLC—a Chicago-based Web development and digital marketing agency—is this year celebrating its 20th year in business! My parents were also small business owners. 16- Treat employees in a better way. I’m currently a tech founder, my company is a sponsorship matching platform Vettdeck.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

It can also keep your employees employed or help you retain your job—a modicum of security in uncertain times. A Harvard Business Review (HBR) study of 4,700 public companies looked at the three years before, during, and after recessions. These companies tend to over rely on reducing the number of employees. Progressive.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I was driven by my desire for freedom and that’s what I got; along with an amazing opportunity to help transform my employees’ and my client’s lives through homeownership and real estate. 20 – To Blend A Beautiful Business Model. Thanks to Adam Hergenrother, Hergenrother Enterprises ! #12

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10 years of entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

In the summer of 1999, I started working on a startup from my college dorm. Id been on the internet since I was playing MUDs as a kid, but by 1999 I felt Id already missed the boat. You can even see the humiliating evidence of my smug incompetence in this absurd article from 1999.) No business model, either.

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Fixing Tech – A Manifesto from a Raving Capitalist

Start Up Blog

A world where big companies, small companies, freelancers and employees can all thrive. After the Dot Com crash of 1999, most yet-to-be-disrupted big firms got back to business. ‘ Oh, but it doesn’t suit our business model’ . But when the web 2.0 TV has a 7 second delay. It’s time to take the power back.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering. Last year I spent eight months traveling around the world, and throughout that entire time I was running my business. In 2004 I began blogging.