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21 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Eventually, the company was led to global dominance by Alfred P. Saturn, Pontiac, and Hummer were all shuttered due to GM's bankruptcy, which occurred on June 1, 2009. Forbes, Shopify, and Gillette are among the clients who have learned how FUBU developed a successful global brand. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Before Jobs returned to the business in 1997, its sales, and popularity all steadily declined for 12 years, nearly driving it into bankruptcy. Seven years ago I launched a business that would eliminate my savings and push me to the verge of bankruptcy within 18 months. Thanks to Keith Terrell, Backpacks Global ! #14-

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Creating the Next Silicon Valley – The Chilean Experiment

Steve Blank

These countries are great models of countries too small to sustain startups of scale on just domestic consumption yet have managed to create innovation with a global reach. Finally, it wasn’t clear if everyone was on the same page; that for a Chilean startup to scale it was going to have to reach past Chile and go global.

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23 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I owned a mortgage company when the mortgage industry crashed and lost almost everything pushing me to the brink of personal bankruptcy. Since starting the business, it has allowed us to home school our children while providing great value to the healing crystal community. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. GCVF specializes in providing critical support to founders based in small communities, while connecting them to an unfair network well-beyond their small-town headquarters. . By comparison, traditional VC has a bankruptcy rate of 30-40%. Details here.

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Editorial: We owe a duty of care to founder mental health and it requires a collaborative solution

NZ Entrepreneur

Sadness for the loss of a bright young New Zealander who had so much going for him, for the terrible loss for Jake’s mother and his whanau and friends, and for the loss of an up and coming innovator and entrepreneur to our business community. It also made me angry. Questions for mentors and startup hubs.

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Austinites represent at SXSW 2018

Austin Startup

Heather Brunner, Tim Ferriss, Mayor Adler, Whitney Wolfe, Kendra Scott, Andy Roddick, Rod Favaron, Bijoy, whurley… Here are some of the Austin startup community members that will be on stage who you should show up to support! Successful businesses that give back to the community, and it’s all on brand. March 9, 2018 3:30PM?—?4:30PM