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6 Stories of Successful New Entrepreneurs to Inspire Your Business

Up and Running

Each of the businesses listed below had help from the SBA and overcame their challenges to become success stories. You might see your own business reflected in these case studies — which may provide insights into areas of growth for your business. TRISTAR — Engineering its own success.

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7 Attributes of An Entrepreneur's Startup Dream Team

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In my angel investor mode, I often find myself flipping to the “management” section of a business plan, even before I read the solution description and opportunity. It starts with having a vision and an ability to get the message across in your elevator pitch, in a written business plan and one-on-one with potential investors.

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The Care And Feeding Of A Startup

YoungUpstarts

A startup is more like Typo Keyboards, which recently engaged ISBX as its software engineering team to help it grow rapidly enough to fill an urgent market demand for Apple’s iPhone 6 buyers. What makes the difference between an ordinary service business and a startup is how fast the startup grows into a big company.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Did Prior to Starting Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

Architecture is the art, science and business of building and requires an extreme social awareness and understanding of social change as well as a strict attention to detail and design. After retiring in 2001, I also joined a ladies networking group, On Purpose Networking for Women (OPN). Thanks to Bryan Clayton, GreenPal ! #11

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

The Business Plan (Concept- Alpha-Beta - FCS ) became the playbook for startups. VC’s engineered financial transactions, working with entrepreneurs to brand, hype and take public un profitable companies with grand promises of the future. 2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup. Thus began the 5-year dot-com bubble.

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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Why Use a Consulting CTO A consulting CTO can help you complete a business plan by estimating costs and timelines for the company’s technology development and deployment. Though after the dotcom collapse of 2000-2001, there are many more than there were! Why are consulting CTOs so scarce? Try Google.

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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth

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Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. You may get a software engineer to start something for you, but they wont stick with the project when it gets difficult.