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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Why They Started Their Business

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Thanks to Balaram Thapa, Nepal Hiking Team ! #7- 7- Opportunity to help businesses. I would like to say that I started my business because I saw an opportunity to help businesses with their digital marketing efforts. I started my business to serve a purpose at a particular time. Photo Credit: Serbay Arda Ayzit.

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

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6/16: What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption

David Teten

Until recently, most Internet innovation has centered around improvements — big improvements, but incremental ones nonetheless — to existing business models and familiar social structures: Amazon is the ultimate retail destination, Zipcar the ubiquitous rental-car agency; Meetup is a sewing circle on steroids.

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