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20 Entrepreneurs Share Their Business Goals for 2018

Hearpreneur

This year we will hit our 100,000th person on experiential tours of Detroit and launch a new program that shares lessons learned with other leaders. The DXF Institute will offer in-depth full-day and multi-day learning experiences in Detroit. These experiences will focus on innovation and inspiration by using Detroit as a classroom.

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How VCs, Accelerators, and Coworking Spaces Put Communities in Buildings vs. Buildings in Communities

This is going to be BIG.

There was a computer training lab run by a company called Prosoft, but that's like having an Apex Tech and expecting to be the next Detroit. It connects them to all the companies they've met, invested in, the bigger companies that could acquire their companies and hundreds if not thousands of employees that have worked within their portfolio.

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When You Need To Know – Use A Keylogger

YoungUpstarts

Dates are chosen from forums listing thousands of possibilities, and social media sites allow individuals to post their latest activities, favorite foods, and newest challenges for all the world to see. Children can be stalked by online predators, and company employees can waste valuable work time in search of personal information.

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Your Customers Don’t Need Better Products. They Need Better Stories!

Brandanew

But, the social world today, especially through digital media gives brands plenty of opportunities to create a new narrative and challenge set perceptions. It’s made easy because you can now own your media and change the conversation. Today, the company has 54 employees and operates in 115 cities globally. ( ” 2.

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How to Start a Bed and Breakfast

Up and Running

This approach is a recipe for failure in an industry that relies on word of mouth and social media recommendations. This is not at all uncommon; in fact, between 30 and 40 percent of all B&B owners go it alone without hiring employees. Additional resources to help you with hiring: Is It Time to Hire an Employee?

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How to Build a Startup Team

techcocktail.com

Dedication: At a typical organization, dedication of its employees is important. Tech Cocktail Connecting, educating and amplifying the startup technology community and having fun doing it since 2006. If your team members are not passionate about the goal of the organization, what’s going to keep them from leaving?

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

After thinking about how much I enjoyed helping her business grow and learning all I could about business structure, marketing, SEO and social media to name a few, I decided to take these new skills and help other small business owners. The life of entrepreneurship is definitely overly glamorized on social media.