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13 Entrepreneurs Share Their Pick for a Dream Mentor

Hearpreneur

We wanted to know which name was at the top of their “dream mentor” list. #1 Additionally, Lisa Price has encouraged me via her brand and ability to persevere despite its bankruptcy. Having a strong figure in your life to help steady you through the currents of growing your business can be a lifesaver. 1 – Sir Richard Branson.

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

After thinking about how much I enjoyed helping her business grow and learning all I could about business structure, marketing, SEO and social media to name a few, I decided to take these new skills and help other small business owners. She now photographs thirty newborns a month! Thanks to Marielle Chartier Henault, AquaMermaid ! #24-

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10 Films That Show The Dark Side Of Business

YoungUpstarts

While too fresh on America’s mind to endure the heartbreak of a Bernie Madoff movie, the ugly side of the business world makes great cinematic fodder. In 2000, the 22,000 people on staff at Enron could be proud: they were spending their days at one of Fortune ‘s “100 Best Companies to Work For in America.”

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Should We Take Harvard MBAs Seriously as Startup Founders? [New Data]

View from Seed

After Stanford undergrad, I helped start and build Better Place – at one time famous for raising a $350 million Series B in what the Economist called the “Netscape moment for Cleantech,” only to end up infamous and in bankruptcy almost a billion dollars of funding and five years later. Success and fundraising are not one and the same.

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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

In addition, those humans, collectively, are the majority of America and they reside disproportionately in non-primary markets. Jake Soberal : Hi, my name is Jake Soberal. Irma Olguin : My name is Irma Olguin, I'm the co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Industries. That thesis to us, doesn't feel controversial.

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The 12 Strangest Celebrity Businesses

YoungUpstarts

Sadly, none of her ideas were realized and she ended up selling the town in 1993 and filing for bankruptcy. While other celebrities are trying to make their clothing lines stand out from the rest, Welch went a completely different direction and created a name for herself in the wig industry. Raquel Welch’s line of wigs.

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United We Stand

Reid Hoffman

He started out slapping his name onto skyscrapers and casinos, and then less grandly, he moved onto vodka , mattresses , dog collars , and fake universities. His business record was a chaotic saga of betrayed partners , conned customers , harmed shareholders , a string of bankruptcies , and then that long second-act pivot to reality TV.