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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I began organizing in-person professional development events for this community, and then clients began asking me for help finding the right consultant for a project. Photo Credit: Sheryl Green. Thanks to Sheryl Green, Sheryl Green Speaks ! #3- Thanks to Will Bachman, Umbrex ! #2- 2- Was laid off from a job.

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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. Currently, as a profitability consultant for green and social entrepreneurship businesses, I show businesses how they can go beyond mere sustainability (keeping things the same) to regenerativity (making things better).

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Blitzscaling Creativity with DALL-E

Reid Hoffman

A web developer is making 3D objects for a landing page. And on every hole, it gets you a lot closer to the green than you’d get using traditional methods. A landscape design firm is using it to rapidly visualize different directions on a backyard renovation. An animator is quickly generating assets for videos.

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

blog.expensify.com

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. I gather you assume that everyone’s a web developer? of computers, that for various reasons can’t be a web page” a good reason?

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