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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

No more 60 hour weeks at a job where the owners apparently were unable to run a successful operation. In the early 2000s, digital design and development freelancers were sort after – I was fresh out of University (having completed a degree in Media Arts) and was hungry for work. No hassles. No regrets.

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Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

Startup Lessons Learned

It was fall 2004, and the presidential election was in full swing. We run a web development company and we start by creating a splash page very similar to what is describe here. If we don't get a certain amount of signups on that splash page, we don't develop the rest of the site becuase they will not have any customer.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I now am the CEO and founder of Berri Properties in Asheville and Charlotte, NC. On top of this, my role allows me greater flexibility and a daily sense of accomplishment helping other female entrepreneurs make money and put their best foot forward through beautiful branding and website development. 11- Saw an opportunity.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

Since founding my business in 1981 as a typing and editing service, I’ve operated under many names/websites. I work with them to develop and market profitable products and services that turn hunger and poverty into sufficiency, war into peace, and catastrophic climate change into planetary balance. 27- Unusual way.

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Convertible Equity, A Better Alternative To Convertible Debt?

techcrunch.com

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. Today, TheFunded.com and the Founder Institute is announcing in conjunction with law firm Wilson Sonsini, Convertible Equity, a startup-friendly seed-financing vehicle intended to replace Convertible Debt notes.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

net is the only framework in which you can build an app for all the major mobile operating systems (iphone, android, wp7). My entry into web development (after 7 years of Unix development, 4 writing console games, and 3 writing router firmware) was helping my father-in-law’s company. net implementation. So clueless.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

When we started IMVU in 2004, we could rely on a staggering amount of open source software that jumpstarted our initial product offering. But I think debates about which language, which operating system, even which editor (emacs, vim, Visual Studio) can go on forever. If you are a Web developer, PHP is powerful.

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