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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. Seeing a 200-percent revenue growth in just the first year after securing that loan, TRISTAR took out an additional $500,000 SBA-backed loan to expand its physical presence into two more locations.

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Seven considerations to ensure your broadband is up to the task

NZ Entrepreneur

greater reliability, extra support, safeguards against data loss and added security. Hyperfibre offers speeds of 2000 Mbps, 4000 Mbps and 8000 Mbps. Consideration 6: DO YOU HAVE ADVANCED SECURITY REQUIREMENTS? Do you need to segment your network for IT security and performance? How does your company operate?

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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. I then made the decision to quit the stability and security of my full-time job and launched myself into my own (first) business: an online baby store! Photo Credit: Rob Kessler. I always loved languages.

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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. Harvard Innovation Lab. Based in Mountain View, Calif.,

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Don’t Sleep on Lightning

Version One Ventures

Up until late August, Lightning Labs had capped the channel capacity and payment size for users of their popular implementation of the network to ~$2000 USD and ~$500 respectively to better protect user funds with experimental software. . 2) Bitcoin remains by far the most secure and liquid blockchain in the world . 5) Chat .

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Turning the Camera on Chris Dixon

Both Sides of the Table

He is the CEO of Hunch , company that I believe is solving a very big problem that I have been telling entrepreneurs needs to be solved for the past 2 years. When starting SiteAdvisor, Chris believed there was inherent value in the security space despite it not being “hot” or “sexy.” be the guy that provides them quotes”).

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Selecting Your Investors

OnlyOnce

Fred Wilson has been a venture investor and director in Return Path since 2000, first with Flatiron Partners and then with Union Square Ventures. But as an entrepreneur, you can mitigate the number of times you have to walk away by developing good alternative options to a particular deal. Pay up” for quality and for a clean security.

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