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28 Entrepreneurs Share Their Tips and Tricks of Staying Motivated

Hearpreneur

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. It’s easy for Founders to become unmotivated by all the problems they face on a daily basis. Photo Credit: Charlotte Maumus. Thanks to Charlotte Maumus, Memwris ! Photo Credit: Ande Lyons.

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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. in December of 2004 with just our one little product, and by the end of 2005 we had sold 1 million Finders Key Purse(r). As a student with a high GPA and dreams of becoming a corporate attorney, I was heartbroken. I launched Alexx, Inc.

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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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