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28 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Entrepreneurs They Consider to be Successful

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Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps is an image that resonates with me when I think about what makes a successful entrepreneur, and Carnegie definitely represents that image. In my book, he represents success through the mechanisms he has developed for remote living, working from any location, and training other entrepreneurs.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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When youve bootstrapped a business where youre not drawing a salary and depleting whatever savings you have, thats one of the very difficult things to do," says Toby Stuart, a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Mississippi. Mississippi. District of Columbia. Massachusetts.

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Out of the Crisis #9, the founders of Frontline Foods on the moral imperative to support frontline workers at scale

Startup Lessons Learned

New York, of course, being one of the epicenters for the pandemic in our country, but other cities being hit very hard, New Orleans and Detroit, and what's happening in Mississippi right now. And that was $100,000 that came in to bootstrap Chicago and Detroit and Atlanta. Sydney Gressel : Yeah.