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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

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For each business owner, the story of their journey can range from monetary needs or the passion for a unique project. 3- Due to financial difficulties in my family. I started Ignite Visibility because I was working at a company where they put me in a position to fail. I was working on 30 clients with limited support.

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Out of the Crisis #27: Eren Bali of Carbon Health on public health, COVID vaccinations, and working as a unified society to solve problems

Startup Lessons Learned

Eren Bali arrived in Silicon Valley from Turkey in 2010 hoping to relaunch Udemy , his online education company. He spent a few years working at the tech startup SpeedDate before following through with his original plan, after which Udemy went on to be enormously successful. Then he realized that somebody was him.

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Out of the Crisis #14: Robert Rhinehart on the Corona Initiative, accelerating basic research, and finding a cure faster

Startup Lessons Learned

"I really like that resilience word," Robert Rhinehart told me in our conversation about his new organization, The Corona Initiative. You may know him as the founder of Soylent, the nutrition company he started in his kitchen and scaled nationwide. Instead of waiting, he went ahead and did something about it.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments in 2019

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I can’t wait to see what 2020 brings! Throughout that development process the marketing team kept pressing, leading the company to 50,000 influencers over the Summer, which made us the largest warm contact influencer network in the market. 3- Publishing a book. Many businesses were launched and others were closed.

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Out of the Crisis #9, the founders of Frontline Foods on the moral imperative to support frontline workers at scale

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It began with a single text exchange between friends, in which Sydney suggested to Frank that a pizza party might be a great way to boost morale on her unit at the end of a really tough shift. The organization is now a national effort that supports restaurants and frontline healthcare workers simultaneously by connecting them.