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30 Entrepreneurs Explain How They are Incorporating Social Entrepreneurship in Their Business

Hearpreneur

4- Safe home security. There were so many people being taken advantage of by predatory home security companies, which was causing massive financial repercussions and causing people to be less safe. Thanks to Kristen Bolig, Security Nerd ! #5- Thanks to Marcus Anwar, OhMy.ca ! #4- Photo Credit: Kristen Bolig.

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Best Of Both Worlds: Mixing HTML5 And Native Code

mobile.smashingmagazine.com

What happens if network connectivity is interrupted? Make sure you take standard Web security practices into account to ensure your Web content cannot be compromised to begin with. Keep performance, and security in mind when using any application development platform. Test early, and test often, across a variety of devices.

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Is Facebook evil? Maybe. Is Facebook evolving the web? Most definitely. NY Times, you’re way off.

Jeff Hilimire

Good friend and blogging bada$$, @tobydiva , pointed me to this article on the NY Times entitled, “ World’s Largest Social Network: The Open Web “ The author, Randall Stross , is way, way off. Nor am I talking about the security concerns with moving people’s personal data outside of Facebook and onto the open web.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I now am the CEO and founder of Berri Properties in Asheville and Charlotte, NC. Although this was a huge disappointment, initially I wasn’t too concerned because I had a track record of securing jobs. But this time, despite all of my efforts, I wasn’t able to secure a job. 4- I was put in a position to fail.

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15 Entrepreneurs Share What Makes Their Business Unique

Hearpreneur

Where as boutiques in Charlotte, NC can be found centered around each other with store frontage, we’re located in a secluded spot that isn’t easily found. When we finally decided to settle into a brick and mortar space, we didn’t look for the typical strip mall or boutique location.

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How to pivot away $34m: Israel’s Xeround shuts it doors with a lesson

The Next Web

Xeround was founded in 2005 by Sharon Barkai – founder of Sheer networks, which was eventually sold to Cisco , and Dr. Gilad Zlotkin – founder of Class Data, also sold to Cisco. Charlotte Yarkoni – a senior exec at Amdocs, was asked to take over as CEO, and see if she could turn Xeround into a sort of ‘mini Amdocs’.

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