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20 Entrepreneurs Share Their Business Goals for 2018

Hearpreneur

We’ll do this through a variety of ways like introducing new products and features to our website, and focusing on a variety of marketing strategies to grow and engage our community. 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.

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6 Tips for Coming Up With Your Million-Dollar Business Idea

Up and Running

Don’t get focused on the tech or how to dominate the market, just identify a problem and set about solving it. The company operates on six continents and boasts more than 250,000 graduates worldwide. See if you even have a market that wants your product—that will PAY for your product!”. David’s advice. Feed a need.

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Bad Boys and the Fab Five: Business Lessons from Basketball History

Up and Running

ESPN’s strategy demonstrates the importance of being able to adjust your business plan in real-time as you receive positive (or negative) feedback from your target market. In April of 2014, ESPN released its latest entry in the “30 for 30″ series, telling the story of the Detroit Pistons during their infamous “Bad Boys” era.

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Why There’s A Startup Boom In The US Midwest

The Startup Magazine

We can trace the Midwest’s renaissance to Sprout Social’s successful initial public offering (IPO) , which saw the company debut on public markets at a price of $17 per share and rise to over $120 per share today. The national labor market has evolved since the pandemic. Today, Sprout is a $6.6

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Mercenaries, Missionaries, and Crusaders

View from Seed

I’ve had the privilege to work with many great entrepreneurs, both in my operating days at the start of my career and over the last decade plus on the VC investing side. In my experience founders usually fall into one of three types: mercenaries, missionaries, and crusaders.

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

Brandanew

Steve Jobs had just launched the iPhone, and many analysts were dissing Apple for bringing a sub-par product to the market. Phones with better features and technology options were already in the market. And this wasn’t because Apple had released the best product in the market. How will you win the market?

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How to Start a Bed and Breakfast

Up and Running

To provide an inside perspective on what it takes to run and maintain a successful B&B, I interviewed Kathleen Karamanos, owner and operator of Fundy Heights Bed and Breakfast in Saint John, New Brunswick, on Canada’s scenic East Coast. Step 3: Develop your marketing strategy. What is a bed and breakfast?

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