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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1- To do it for myself. 2- To help entrepreneurs become financially independent. From that acquisition, I knew I needed to let out the entrepreneur spirit that was trapped in me. Each story is different though the reasons may be the same.

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10 of the Most Successful Investors of the Last 10 Years

The Startup Magazine

What have entrepreneurs been up to since then? These shares propelled him to billionaire status in 2015 when the firm’s market value soared. Sachin Bansal and his business partner, Binny Bansal, launched an e-commerce site in India in 2007. Peter is the founder of Bay Street Capital Partners. Source: Pexels. Sean Belnick.

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29 Seriously Inspiring Interviews For Aspiring Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

Business ventures build on top of one another like Lego towers — they don’t spring Athena-like from the foreheads of entrepreneurs, no matter what some may claim. Lauren Bush at Under30CEO , April 21, 2011 : Lauren Bush, co-founder of FEED Projects, discusses how she applied her entrepreneurial skills to the nonprofit, social justice sector.

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Say No To Absent Fathers, Yes To Paternity Leave

YoungUpstarts

by Ankita Sheth, cofounder of Vista Rooms. In November 2015, Facebook Founder & CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted his paternity leave plans. However, in India, any kind of government benefits are typically restricted to rural areas or towards liberal maternal leave policies.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Hemafuse

Austin Startup

Carolyn Yarina , Co-Founder and CEO of Sisu Global Health. Yarina, Co-Founder and CEO of Sisu Global, was recently named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list for Healthcare, one of many awards the company has received for its work. We moved our company from Michigan to Baltimore in 2015, and it was a great decision for us.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders?

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Making MA More Competitive – An Innovative Way Around the H-1B Visa Cap

Rob Go

But just as important in my mind is a proposal that was introduced to allow international entrepreneurs to build businesses in Boston with an exemption from the H-1B visa cap. Just recently, the entire allotment (85,000) for H-1B visas for FY 2015 were filled in the first week. When I was applying for jobs, the cap was 2.3X