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20 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Industry With The Most Optimist Future

Hearpreneur

Future technological advances will only bring more creativity and ingenuity into the world of publishing and it will be coming from self-published authors. Technology has proved to have a great driver of the rise of ‘future industries’ and those that were previously seen to be tech-proof. 1- Sustainability. Photo Credit: Connie Heintz.

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28 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Entrepreneurs They Consider to be Successful

Hearpreneur

She is an author and founding partner of Y Combinator, which Lovd.com (W21) was lucky enough to be a part of as well as 3,500 other companies including Airbnb, Instacart, DoorDash, Coinbase, Dropbox and many others. Some of them are alive and continue to do great things while others only read about them. 1- Jessica Livingston. 2- Bill Gates.

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Putting Tom Perkins Comments into Context

Both Sides of the Table

Tom Perkins is one of the founding members of the venerable venture capitalist firm Kleiner Perkins. The headline of Mr. Perkins letter to the WSJ? It probably doesn’t take much more to explain how disconnected from reality Tom Perkins is. I’m sorry, Mr. Perkins. Kleiner Perkins. But let me try.

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Hear how the Lean Startup began — and helped one company find success: Episode 2 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Eric Ries and Jon Sebastiani

Steve Blank

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Eric Ries , entrepreneur and author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Startup. He later co-founded and served as CTO of IMVU and then authored The Lean Startup. Taking My Class. Hear Eric explain what they learned.

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Acquire New Users by Adding Growth Hacking to your Marketing Strategy

ConversionXL

It’s why Canva can call itself a multibillion-dollar platform and how ConvertKit pulled itself up to compete with goliaths like MailChimp and Campaign Monitor. Growth hacking isn’t about deploying sleazy tricks. It’s about making calculated, data-driven moves for fast growth. What is growth hacking? Growth marketing was born out of necessity.

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Location & Demographics for your Restaurant by Kasey Anton

Mike Michalowicz

The location of your restaurant will impact its success nearly as much as the menu – or anything else. If your restaurant is in the wrong place, you won’t attract the amount or type of customers you will need to stay in business. The same is true if your location is inundated with competitors, or has poor visibility, or is hard to find.

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Love About Being An Entrepreneur

Hearpreneur

. #1- Finding traction in the market and changing lives. Photo Credit: Randy Cass. Being an entrepreneur is not without risk, of course, but for me the risk outweighs the ability to choose my own destiny and control my life. My wife hates it when I say this, but I haven’t had a “job” in over 20 years. 2- The responsibility. Photo Credit: Bob Afsari.