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6 Stories of Successful New Entrepreneurs to Inspire Your Business

Up and Running

Seeing a 200-percent revenue growth in just the first year after securing that loan, TRISTAR took out an additional $500,000 SBA-backed loan to expand its physical presence into two more locations. It has grown from five employees generating $120,000 in annual revenue to 350 employees generating annual revenues of $16.5

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Can Document Management Restore Consumers’ Trust In Enterprises?

YoungUpstarts

This occurs for only two reasons, both of which are deeply rooted in a lack of checks and balances, tracking, and using one central, secure repository to store information: each a byproduct of either paper-dependent business practices or arbitrary storing and classifying of digital information: Consider the following examples: 1.

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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

All are developer first companies respectively in zero trust security, automation, and developer productivity. Ongoing press coverage of boldstart themes: every Fortune 500 is a tech company, developer first, and security including Fortune , Techcrunch , Wall Street Journal , Business Insider , SaaStr podcast , and more….

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The Other Amazon Deal this week. Drupal founder attracts over $100 Million in 3 months.

Scalable Startup

Drupal was launched in 2001, and Acquia started in 2007. After that it quickly gained credibility and spread throughout government, and corporate America. Acuia provides premium, high security, supported hosting to it’s customers, which all runs on top of Amazon AWS. Acquia, Inc. Because they are open source.

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JOBS Act to Change Startup Funding Landscape

ReadWriteStart

The real truth is, since the "Internet bubble" burst in 2001, initial public offerings have not resumed the vitality levels of the late 1980s, let alone the boom years of the '90s. Previously $5 million, the securities sales cap will be raised to $50 million. We'd better get used to the new phrase, emerging growth companies (EGCs).

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The Semiconductor Ecosystem – Explained

Steve Blank

Companies in the semiconductor ecosystem make chips (the triangle on the left) and sell them to companies and government agencies (on the right). Those companies and government agencies then design the chips into systems and devices (e.g. and sell them to consumers, businesses, and governments. But they don’t design chips.

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Building The Machine Podcast Episode 5: Dan Kimerling Deciens Capital

Eric Friedman

We buy securities at one price and hope that we can sell them for a highly appreciated price at some time during the term of our fund because we borrow the money we use to buy those securities. They talk about] businesses which are not contractually recurring revenue in the parlance of recurring revenue run rates.