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6 Stories of Successful New Entrepreneurs to Inspire Your Business

Up and Running

New tech entrepreneurs can find it difficult to surmount the onslaught of obstacles to getting a new business off the ground. TRISTAR — Engineering its own success. 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.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal How They Came Up with Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

2- Personal inspiration Photo Credit: Terina Nicole I launched my business 23 years ago in the year 2000. The primary objective was to devise a business moniker that is readily memorable and efficiently optimized for search engines, while concurrently possessing a branding advantage due to its simplistic nomenclature.

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10 College Business Incubators We’re Most Excited About

YoungUpstarts

Follow along as we explore 10 of the most exciting college business incubators around today, and be sure to share your own favorites in the comments: Entrepreneurs Hall @ The RIT Global Village. At Rochester Institute of Technology’s Entrepreneurs Hall, innovation is a way of life. Engineering Translational Technology Center.

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GRP Announces $200 Million Fund. Rebrands as Upfront Ventures

Both Sides of the Table

We have previously raised funds in 1996 ($200 million), 2000 ($400 million) and 2008/9 ($200 million). Wouldn’t we be a bit hypocritical if we talked with entrepreneurs about innovation and change but we weren’t willing to take it on ourselves? We also saw that the same types of entrepreneurs were repeatedly getting funded.

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8 Management Mistakes Which Will Defeat Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Even entrepreneurs who have built many startups, or sold their last one for millions of dollars, know they make occasional people leadership mistakes. Thankfully, most mistakes won’t be as spectacular as the America Online merger with Time Warner for $350 billion, back in 2000, engineered by then superstar entrepreneurs Stephen M.

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A Conversation With Calgary Entrepreneur Ali Ghani: How Commitment To Health And Fitness Benefits His Work And His Life

YoungUpstarts

Ali Ghani , a Calgary-Alberta based investor and entrepreneur, has an extensive history of investing in and working with companies in a diverse range of industries including real estate. Then, in 2000, he shifted gears and founded a successful commercial property development company. As an entrepreneur , you put in lots of long days.

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21 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1- After a disappointment on my biggest day. At that time, in the year 2000 there were no spam filters so it was pretty easy to contact other translation companies to setup cooperation. Each story is different though the reasons may be the same.