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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

In the early 2000s, digital design and development freelancers were sort after – I was fresh out of University (having completed a degree in Media Arts) and was hungry for work. It never occurred to me to start my own business that early into my career as a web developer.

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Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

Startup Lessons Learned

It was fall 2004, and the presidential election was in full swing. It was one of those brilliant startup brainstorms that comes to the team in a flash, with a giant thunderclap. We run a web development company and we start by creating a splash page very similar to what is describe here. What a great post.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Flash forward five days. On top of this, my role allows me greater flexibility and a daily sense of accomplishment helping other female entrepreneurs make money and put their best foot forward through beautiful branding and website development. I found my productivity and creativity had increased… as well as my boredom.

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Bitesize Friday: Israeli startups get funded, launch new products

VC Cafe

Hopefully you haven’t heard of them before… Jivy Group - a mini-conglomerate of companies founded in 2004. Jivy specializes in web development for the gaming and trading industries. They offer option trading platforms, skill and casual games as well as their own development studio. Miscellanous.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

My entry into web development (after 7 years of Unix development, 4 writing console games, and 3 writing router firmware) was helping my father-in-law’s company. I gather you assume that everyone’s a web developer? of computers, that for various reasons can’t be a web page” a good reason?

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