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10 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Leverage Networking in Business

Hearpreneur

We try to have each attorney do at least 2 lunches per month with current and potential referral partners. Our view is that high seas raise all boats, and so by helping our referral partners to meet the other referral partners they are looking for we can all do more business and build more referrals for each other.

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A Google Docs interview with Richard Simms, co-founder of Tech Talent South

Jeff Hilimire

Right now, we run programs here in Atlanta (where we started the company) as well as in Raleigh, Charlotte, and Asheville, NC. I was doing an early-stage startup in Chicago and Betsy was running a physical product development company in Charlotte that she’d recently sold. So Betsy is in Charlotte and you’re in Atlanta, correct?

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Interplay Learning?—?Helping the Skilled Trades Rebuild a Bigger and Better Workforce

Austin Startup

Interplay recently partnered with the Goodwill Construction Skills Training Center, an organization that helps people in the Charlotte, North Carolina community access high-potential, family-sustaining skilled trade careers at no cost to them.

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[US] Rutgers Partners H360 Capital And NJIT To Attract Tech Companies To Newark

YoungUpstarts

Charlotte, North Carolina-based H360 Capital is focused on companies developing ‘market disrupting’ technologies and, through its “Big Ideas Initiative: B2i” will invest up to US$50,000 in 20 technology start-ups in the Newark area. CUEED and NJIT will provide resources and support to entrepreneurs participating in its Big Ideas program. “We

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28 Entrepreneurs Share Their Tips and Tricks of Staying Motivated

Hearpreneur

A network of friends and partners can also serve as a great assurance and reminder that you’re not walking. Photo Credit: Charlotte Maumus. Thanks to Charlotte Maumus, Memwris ! When the going gets rough in business, you’ll need motivation to keep moving. 1- Celebrating the little wins. 28- Network of cheerleaders.

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My first business partner, Raj Choudhury

Jeff Hilimire

I met Raj in college at UNC-Charlotte in 1996. I can ensure you that he had more fun in his one semester at UNC-Charlotte than I did during my entire time. Since both Raj and I had started it, and we had the great fortune to add another amazing partner early on, Danny , we essentially had three founders that could all do the job.

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

Hearpreneur

We have partnerships with a large number of lawn care companies and professionals which we then connect our customers with, and we want to start focusing on partnering with companies/professionals that use more environmentally-friendly tools. Thanks to Jeremy Yamaguchi, Lawn Love ! #2- 2- Recruiting the unemployed from Africa.