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Are You A Necessity Entrepreneur? Ask These 7 Questions

YoungUpstarts

They aren’t operating on big bankrolls of venture capital (at least initially), and they don’t have trust funds to fall back on if the business fails. As a self-directed business owner, you have full control over what the business does next as well as how it operates and how it grows. If they don’t come through, who will?

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The Pros and Cons of Rando Rich People Investing in Your Startup

This is going to be BIG.

Instead of getting hung up on what their better-funded competition was doing, they focused on executing on their near-term goals, then setting new ones, then executing on those, and so on and so on, all the way up to a billion-dollar acquisition with very little dilution taken along the way.

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Announcing NextView’s Entrepreneur Advisors: Part 1

View from Seed

David Cancel – Co-founder/CEO of Driftt (Co-founder/CEO of Performable at the time he first joined our group of advisors, after which he became HubSpot’s Chief Product Officer following an acquisition of Performable). Mike Baker – CEO of DataXu. Brian Shin – Founder/CEO of Visible Measures.

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Build, Buy Or Build To Buy

YoungUpstarts

If in-house development resources have the bandwidth, why not assign them the important task of creating a new platform or application? The develop in-house side would point to the existing investment in staff talent. For sure, no one understands the pressing needs more than the people who work within an organization every day.

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20 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Industry With The Most Optimist Future

Hearpreneur

Roll out of 5G will support the advanced tech solution that now requires massive data bandwidth 3. One such industry is the Network Marketing, which entirely depends on customer acquisition. But if you operate out of your home and set up an online store, those costs just became a lot less, putting more profits in your pocket.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

The HBR study contrasts Office Depot and Staples during the 2000 recession: Office Depot cut 6% of its workforce, but it couldn’t reduce operating costs significantly. At the same time, the company contained its operating costs and came out of the recession stronger, bigger, and more profitable than it had been in 1999. Image source ).

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7 Essential Apps for Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

Essentially, the Square Card Reader turns your smartphone into a mobile cash register, which makes it especially useful for consultants, food-truck operators (a booming startup field) and even some traditional retailers. You pay 2.75% per swipe, and the reader accepts Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express.