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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments in 2019

Hearpreneur

What makes me really proud though is we’ve been 100% bootstrapped for our 3.5 One of the steps we took was to establish MAXIM BPO, a Business Process Outsourcing company in Manila, Philippines, to perform back-office functions for our various verticals including inbound/outbound call center, accounting and bookkeeping, and IT Support.

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Entrepreneur That Grew Up In A Household of Educators Creates Solution to Education Challenges

Hearpreneur

Right now, we’re focused on teaching two verticals: Web Development and User Experience/User Interface (UX/UI) design. Community driven approach to learning: many people ask me about online education. How is it unique? Any major accomplishments? . Our goal is to ensure that our education delivers high ROI. Isn’t that the future?

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Top 10 Vertical and Social Web Trends For The Decade

ReadWriteStart

I offered to help him market his services through 1M/1M, since his target customer base overlaps rather nicely with the 1M/1M community. In 1M/1M, we have extensive expertise on bootstrapping e-commerce businesses, and will be happy to help her navigate the paths of customer acquisition, inventory, merchandising, and financing.

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Who are the Major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

David Teten

Our wheelhouse is bootstrapped (or lightly capitalized) SMB SaaS. Founders First Capital Partners : “Founders First Capital Partners, LLC is building a comprehensive ecosystem to empower underrepresented founders to become leading premium wage job creators within their communities. Bigfoot Capital. Key elements: . “We

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Are Media Sites Fundable?

ReadWriteStart

Today's roundtable brought some core issues up for debate regarding media startups that are focusing largely on Content and Community features and expecting to get funded. The company that has successfully monetized in the women vertical is Glam Media, but their model is of a Vertical Ad Network. Vikrant Mathur, CEO of iFood.tv

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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. . (co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Premium Lounge Sneak Preview

ReadWriteStart

The machines are $250,000 each, and as most dentists cannot afford them Benson wants to create Cone Beam imaging centers to be used by 20-30 dentists per community. Benson's business needs $500,000 to get off the ground, buy a machine, and meet the operating expenses, and he primarily came to discuss his financing options.

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