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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Airbnb founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia had difficulty securing funding, so they launched a mini project to build some funds and catch investors' attention. Using this capital , the founders launched and enjoyed exponential growth in their first year, with 10K users and thousands of listings. Photo Credit: Rob Greene.

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How to Get Funding from Billionaire Investor Mark Cuban and Other Stories

Up and Running

Rob Biederman, co-founder of HourlyNerd, has a funding story that wouldn’t be out of place in a movie. In 2003, Ben Luftman, fresh out of law school, started Luftman, Heck & Associates, LLP, with partner, Jeremy Heck. Founded in 2012, FINEX Cast Iron Cookware Co. After all, what have you got to lose?

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. So I cut the corporate cord and co-founded Finespun Clothing. Thanks to Dean Cycon, Dean’s Beans Organic Coffee Co. ! #19 Greene, Land Carroll & Blair PC ! #20 Floralux is what makes our Restore Gel green. I was mostly just doing.

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Blitzscaling Creativity with DALL-E

Reid Hoffman

And on every hole, it gets you a lot closer to the green than you’d get using traditional methods. When my co-founders and I launched LinkedIn thirteen years later in 2003, none of our users had jobs like “social media manager,” “TikTok influencer,” or “virtual reality architect” yet.

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SXSW Startups: Node

Austin Startup

In 2003, I co-founded Synthesis Energy Systems, Inc., I also have been on the boards of other companies and co-founded a non-profit focused on bringing market-based solutions to refuges in situations of long-term confinement. so we co-founder dated for six months before we formally agreed to be co-founders.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. In later posts I’m going to get into more detail on specific topics like hiring, raising money, what types of ideas have the potential to get big, finding your founders, and the like.

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35 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

Image Credit: Siobhan Green. I am the Founder of Sonjara, Inc – a woman owned small business in Northern Virginia. Thanks to Siobhan Green, Sonjara, Inc ! #8 We were looking at off the wall names like Green Flame and things like that. Thanks to Ethan Warren, Corner Piece Productions ! #7 Image Credit: Bryan Miles.

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