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The leap from employee to entrepreneur – Small Business Spotlight

Up and Running

Ben Lamson and Sulaiman Sanni, WeDidIt cofounders. When one designer raised over $900,000 for his Kickstarter project, Su says, “Seeing that, it was sort of like a light bulb moment. million in grants to emerging businesses since 1999. It’s never easy to leave a stable job to launch a startup.

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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. These companies tend to over rely on reducing the number of employees. At the same time, the company contained its operating costs and came out of the recession stronger, bigger, and more profitable than it had been in 1999.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I am also in a few select boutiques and Hotel Gift shops including the famous Mohonk Mountain House and a design collective in Australia) My collection features unexpected combinations of raw and polished gemstones, opulent pearls, precious metals, custom clasps, and exotic minerals from the world’s treasure troves. (I

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Why Has Andreessen Horowitz Raised $2.7B in 3 Years?

Ben's Blog

After raising our first round of funding for Loudcloud in 1999, we went to visit our new venture capital firm and meet their full team. That excitement took a sharp downhill turn when one of the top partners said to me, in front of my co-founders, “When are you going to get a real CEO?”. I said, “What do you mean?”—hoping

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Feb. 28, Stamford, CT: HBS Event on Angel Investing 101 – Best Practices

David Teten

Karen Bantuveris, Founder and CEO of VolunteerSpot. Karen Bantuveris has 15 years experience as a consultant in customer centric- leadership development, marketing strategy and business process design. She is the Founder and CEO of Volunteer Spot an online coordination app that facilitates volunteering.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

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Kiva co-founder Jessica Jackley’s latest venture Profounder is one platform that could power these transactions. Apple became the most valuable company in the world (measured by market capitalization) in August by offering simple, attractive design that made technology invisible to the user.

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15 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

They learn design skills alongside sewing and patternmaking, so that there is less reliance on mass manufactured clothing retailers, and they get to wear fashionable, unique handmade garments. . #8 We built some early ecommerce sites around 1999 and back office order processing systems using visual basic for applications (VBA).