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28 Entrepreneurs Share Their Tips and Tricks of Staying Motivated

Hearpreneur

5- Employees, clients and future of my company. For me, knowing that I have dedicated, hard working employees that rely on me, and amazing clients that trust me with their brands, keeps me going. When I started my company in 2005, I spent too many years working so much both IN and ON the business that I burned out.

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A close call that we avoided thanks to our advisory board.

Jeff Hilimire

It was 2005 and we were 25 people, up from half that the year before. We had been talking for months about expanding into either Charlotte or South Florida. Several of those near-misses were the result of advice from our amazing advisory board – Bill , Ken , James , William , and Mike.

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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. When I help other people through skills in digital marketing, I’m able to give more to clients, employees, my family and the community. But instead of staying upset, I took advantage of my position of being debt-free and became a real estate agent.

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How to pivot away $34m: Israel’s Xeround shuts it doors with a lesson

The Next Web

Xeround was founded in 2005 by Sharon Barkai – founder of Sheer networks, which was eventually sold to Cisco , and Dr. Gilad Zlotkin – founder of Class Data, also sold to Cisco. Charlotte Yarkoni – a senior exec at Amdocs, was asked to take over as CEO, and see if she could turn Xeround into a sort of ‘mini Amdocs’.

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