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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. In 2000, when a slowdown in the industry forced a sharp refocusing of the company’s efforts, UEC enlisted the SBDC in helping expand into federal contracting.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. The idea of the Lean Startup was built on top of the rubble of the 2000 Dot-Com crash. With fewer than 10 employees but almost $2-billion dollars in the bank, they plan on jumping right in. And it may work.

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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. This is especially true for the organizational leaders, entrepreneurs, and key staff members I have as coaching clients. We wanted to say no to Tingo! Thanks to Parry Bedi, Tingono ! #2- So they were calling me a Gypsy. #13-

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10 Realities Today Cause Startups To Bypass An IPO

Startup Professionals Musings

In the old days, every entrepreneur dreamed of easily taking their startup public, and making it big. Today the rate of startups going public (IPO – Initial Public Offering) is up from the dead zone, but is still half the rate back before 2000.

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Entrepreneur Builds Multimillion Dollar Company after Dropping out of College

Hearpreneur

Second, I have been an entrepreneur my entire life. As for the Small Business coaching, I love seeing entrepreneurs thrive and again, when we launched the pilot feedback was staggering. Any advice you would give to entrepreneurs and business owners? So I started the company first to help other Home Care companies thrive. .

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4 Questions To Ask Before You Hire An App Developer

YoungUpstarts

You may want to put your trust in a new company that has a well reputed entrepreneur at the helm, so weigh up experience across three areas: The company. Guy Cooper is Managing Director of Wave Digital , an Australian app development company founded in 2000. What is your experience in the app development industry? encounters delays.

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8 Ways The Maker Movement Turns Ideas Into Businesses

Startup Professionals Musings

This technology is not only spawning a new generation of entrepreneurs, but is also changing the educational landscape, all the way down to early grade school. In my view as an advisor to new ventures, the Maker Movement is an integral part of a new age of the entrepreneur. Provides networking with cofounders and strategic partners.