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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

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In the case of Freshdesk, their main competitor, Zendesk, is operating with a San Francisco - Copenhagen cost-structure and will find it harder to compete with this strategy. Bizosys Technologies, a Bangalore, India based software engineering company was founded in 2009. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. Discuss.

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Small business and startups: 5 great self-service HR resources

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I am talking about the nitty-gritty reality of operating a business, paying the bills, washing the dishes, and managing employees. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009 requires all states to set up health insurance exchanges by January of 2014.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: Akamai

Seeing Both Sides

Facebook and Google would be obvious choices for this, but so much has been written about each of them and they represent such special business models, I worried that it would be both hard for entrepreneurs to relate and hard for me to develop new insights. The first one I’ll focus on is Akamai. Akamai: The Present.

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Design Museum Boston

Up and Running

With a true passion for design, creativity, and continuous learning, I create a long term vision for the museum while leading a dedicated team and managing day-to-day operations — in essence I’m a designer and an entrepreneur. So we started in 2009 with the goal of creating a brick-and-mortar museum. Remember 2008/2009?

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Software Startup Myths Debunked

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I know more than a dozen entrepreneurs who have spent a great deal of time and effort working on their respective businesses. In Massachusetts for example, there are 82,007 millionaires. I can name perhaps 3 millioniares who live in Massachusetts whom I know personally. Wait, did I miss fame? The other 82,004 millionaires?

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11 Brilliant Businesswomen Who Were Way Ahead Of Their Time

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Goddard, ever the savvy businesswoman, would later become the first female postmaster and would continue to operate the bookshop (a spin-off of her printing business) until her death at the age of 78. During 1810 alone, the new method brought in more than $500,000 in sales in Massachusetts, or the equivalent of $4.7 Mary Dixon Kies.