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6 Stories of Successful New Entrepreneurs to Inspire Your Business

Up and Running

It has grown from five employees generating $120,000 in annual revenue to 350 employees generating annual revenues of $16.5 Rather than seeking private funding, the company’s owners obtained funds through DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), committing them to building products for government use.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

With fewer than 10 employees but almost $2-billion dollars in the bank, they plan on jumping right in. Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. Both companies and government agencies struggle with how to deliver innovation at speed. And it may work.

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Public Hospital Modern Woes – Aging Infrastructure, Unions, Pensions, High Regulation. 

The Startup Magazine

This article will focus on the impact of hospitals in that equation, specifically those public health system owned and controlled by local Governments. [2]. Further into their lifecycle, though, they found themselves beholden to certain financial and governance handicaps. Hospital System Roots. Unions often cast an outsized presence.

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In Santa Fe We Wish We Had The Boulder Problems!

Feld Thoughts

To give you some background, I moved to Santa Fe, NM from the East Coast in 1995 to start a company with my older brother. Santa Fe’s anemic economy is due in large part because Santa Fe has an older population made up primarily of retirees in addition to federal, state and local government workers and service-based workers.

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Welcome to the Lost Decade (for Entrepreneurs, IPO’s and VC’s)

Steve Blank

Until 1995 startups going public typically had a track record of revenue and profits. Netscape’s 1995 IPO changed the rules. They’ve created virtual IPO’s for founders and employees via late-stage private financing. government for funding. This was the beginning of the 5-year dot-com bubble.). Yet while the U.S.

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Growth Could Kill Your Company!

Duct Tape Marketing

The company, Danatec, sold paper-based course materials for corporate trainers to use in safety training of employees. Your business success is influenced by many different types of people: prospects, customers, employees, funders, suppliers, distributors and even the public at large. Growth also strains employees physically.

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Why You Should Know Your Local SBDC

Up and Running

The details vary by state and specific office, but usually you’ll find a good selection of specific classes on topics such as bookkeeping and employee management, offered in a mix of evening classes over several weeks, workshops for half a day or less, one-on-one counseling and longer-term programs.