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6 Stories of Successful New Entrepreneurs to Inspire Your Business

Up and Running

TRISTAR — Engineering its own success. An engineering services firm, TRISTAR is the first woman and minority-owned firm based in Indiana to offer the Department of Defense (DoD) technical support services. UEC Electronics — Engineering contracts. In 2001, they secured their second SBA loan for the business.

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7 Attributes of An Entrepreneur's Startup Dream Team

Startup Professionals Musings

Fundable entrepreneurs have to feel comfortable talking and listening to engineers, financial people, marketing and especially customers. It starts with having a vision and an ability to get the message across in your elevator pitch, in a written business plan and one-on-one with potential investors. Relish the challenges of problem solving.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. I wanted several of the software engineers to join me at our next startup but their employment was tied to BuildOnline. The world had just gone into crisis and I was in a period of reflection reminiscent of September 2001.

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile and cloud. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – missing search, mobile and the cloud were directly where Microsoft users were heading. They had lots of these projects.

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile and cloud. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – missing search, mobile and the cloud were directly where Microsoft users were heading. They had lots of these projects.

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Ecommerce: How to Survive its Troughs

ReadWriteStart

The rise of ecommerce started in 2001 – during the growth of the commercial availability of the internet in households. Search Engine optimization, along with ignorance of some primary content fields of your ecommerce store, can make the difference in pushing your name within the market. The Rise of Ecommerce.

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Why The Future Of US High-Tech Is Bright

YoungUpstarts

Is the entire sector destined to a sudden and quick demise, similar to the dot-com bust of 2001, with widespread stock market collapses and mass layoffs? Most of the costs incurred by Microsoft in developing new versions of Windows involve paying engineers to write software codes. These costs are largely fixed.