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29 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

My research was valuable enough for a large corporation that is known for creating a popular operating system to give us about $250K in funding. The company that employed us began putting profits above people and new sales above client retention. It was becoming a business model destined to fail. I was a Ph.D. 10-Passion.

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When DIY Is A Terrible Idea

YoungUpstarts

However, DIY is a terrible idea when the task is complicated and failure can bring down your entire business. This is why taxes are the ultimate DIY snare for business owners. Entrepreneurs and small business owners feel that filing tax returns (sales; payroll; franchise, etc.) should be a DIY process.

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Why Having A BHAG Is Critical To Your Company’s Success

YoungUpstarts

Reach $125 billion in sales by 2000.” We started franchising and slowly expanded from Fairfield County in Connecticut over to New York. I realized we were really taking off once we opened operations in the New York City and Long Island markets. Business model. Democratize the automobile.” In 2018, Walmart had $500.3

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

online.wsj.com

Overall, nonventure-backed companies fail more often than venture-backed companies in the first four years of existence, typically because they dont have the capital to keep going if the business model doesnt work, Harvards Mr. Ghosh says. Languishing businesses were counted as survivors. Businesses For Sale |.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

This is the first post in what’s going to be a series of blogs on how to go from nothing – no connections, no team, no money and no knowledge of how the startup industry really works – to operating a growing business. I’m taking a 52 week course in how to start up, run, operate, and achieve self employment.

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Using Negative Keywords To Attract Highly Qualified Customers

ConversionXL

Better focus leads to higher relevancy ads, which leads to more motivated clicks, and ultimately more leads or sales. Let’s review the keyword results before we make a decision: If we excluded that phrase term, ads from our apparel Campaign wouldn’t appear in searches for our example query of sale on supernova running gear.

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