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

Hearpreneur

Since my business is a part of the lawn care industry, the way in which we operate can have a massive environmental impact. 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.

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Business Modeling is Process, not an Event

The Entrepreneurial Mind

While a business plan may be important to secure financing, a business model is what will guide the entrepreneur through the inevitable trial and error of finding the best fit in the market. When we expanded our health-care business from Raleigh into Charlotte, N.C., As a result, our operation in Charlotte never reached profitability.

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How to Get the Boss to Buy Into Your IT Solutions

YoungUpstarts

He researched all the options and recommended a solution that decreased operational costs, used less power, allowed remote management and took up less space than our preferred vendor could offer. Security – Are there improvements or other implications? Unfortunately, the preferred vendor was far behind in this area.

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Best Of Both Worlds: Mixing HTML5 And Native Code

mobile.smashingmagazine.com

Consider if your application can benefit by integrating with the camera, contact list, local data storage, offline operation, etc. Make sure you take standard Web security practices into account to ensure your Web content cannot be compromised to begin with. Test early, and test often, across a variety of devices.

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

The Next Web

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’. Yarkoni managed to secure two U.S. It turned out that the backend operational expenses wound up costing more than Xeround was actually bringing in from their customers.

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