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25 Entrepreneurs Share Their Thoughts on the Future of Entrepreneurship

Hearpreneur

After the huge impact Covid had on businesses and the global economy in general, I strongly believe entrepreneurship will become the younger generation's first and most viable option rather than a forward-looking and hard-to-reach goal as it’s seen nowadays. 17- Saturated with bootstrapped businesses. 10- Diverse and digital.

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An Austin Primer for Female Entrepreneurs— Follow These Leaders & Join These Groups

Austin Startup

In July I spoke on a panel at 3 Day Startup Global Roundup, an opportunity that sprung out of a connection in a Female Founders Facebook Group. Funding 101 Panel at 3DS Global Roundup w/ myself, Bart Bohn and May Samali. She’s a voice for inclusion especially to coding communities specifically, and general hustle toward what you want.

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Intermediate C++ 3D Graphics Developer

Transformify

About us At Scopic Software, we have over 250 employees in over 30 countries all comfortably working from home/remotely. Scopic Software has grown consistently since 2006, and continues to strive to make an impact in the software industry. Today, it is the largest virtual company in the world, employing top talent globally.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

4- Due to lack representation in the skincare industry. Reflecting on why I dared to take the risk is probably due to having no commitments elsewhere (no family, no mortgage, no huge fixed cost base), so if I ever wanted to test my luck and skills building a larger business, then the timing was perfect. Photo Credit: Olamide Olowe.

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Strategy Roundtable: Do Not Spray and Pray

ReadWriteStart

Next, Umakant Soni discussed Vimagino.com , a software for Web-based Q&A support to engage customers better on sites that are trying to draw people in and convert them into customers. Now, the Web self-service software market is very crowded with major players like RightNow already deeply entrenched. Vimagino.com. PowerStores.in.

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Strategy Roundtable: Try To Get At Least $2M Pre-Money In Seed Round Valuation

ReadWriteStart

At today's roundtable we had some interesting companies and a lot of fundraising discussions, and I will review them shortly. Sub-$2 million pre-money, it is better to bootstrap. Next Igor Protsenko presented Profitero , an enterprise software product for helping retailers with price comparison and optimization.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #3: The five critical ingredients to build a big company

Austin Startup

We also made sure to look at the financial profile of other Software as a Service (SaaS) companies. If we couldn’t sell our first product for that, which was Bazaarvoice Ratings & Reviews, then it probably wasn’t worth selling in the first place because we could have never built into a SaaS company that had a viable financial profile.