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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

We asked entrepreneurs and business owners about their best business or entrepreneur turnaround story and here are the responses. #1- The company didn’t turn a profit until 2003, but by 2005 business was booming – Netflix was shipping out a million DVDs daily. My favorite entrepreneur turnaround story is that of Lord Alan Sugar.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

“Staple green cards to the diplomas of foreign students who graduate from any U.S. Two weeks after Brad’s post I was at the 140 Conference in LA and I held open office hours for any entrepreneur who wanted to spend 15 minutes talking with a VC about their business. But TWTFelipe is an entrepreneur. But I have some.

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Working for Equity Instead of Cash

genylabs.typepad.com

The Changing Face of Entrepreneurs. The Connected World of Entrepreneurs. Entrepreneur Magazine Blog. Member since 01/2005. Deskmag: Profiling Coworkers in the United States. NPR Marketplace: Businesses save off green incentives. Business Week: Twitter for Entrepreneurs: 20 to Follow: Steve King.

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The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post)

Startup Lessons Learned

Many of these companies are started by entrepreneurs, and are now household names: Google, Yahoo, eBay and Intel. Luckily for the rest of us, he was able to find his path to a green card, and now employs 24 Americans in West Lafayette, Indiana. Startups are the lifeblood of our economy. He started Passageways Inc.

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

blog.expensify.com

Do you “entrepreneurs” really think a guy or gal that can compile Linux on a bicycle wants to write a secure payment processor on an iPhone, or a Flash app that runs on every browser? I am an entrepreneur and own a start-up, and have hired many coders over the years. And it was slow going to master that. … James.

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Make Election Day a Holiday: It’s the American Thing to Do

Reid Hoffman

In fact, according to a 2018 study by the Pew Research Center , the United States ranks near the bottom for voter turnout among its peers in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, just 26th out of 32 countries. What can we do in the United States to improve this core aspect of our democracy?