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How to Successfully Approach Trade-Offs as an Entrepreneur in 2021

Up and Running

In fact, Americans are becoming small business owners at an accelerated clip: New filings for employer identification numbers are higher than they’ve been since 2007 , according to the U.S. Joanna Gaines started out with a small home goods store in Waco, Texas. Census Bureau. Many entrepreneurs rightly see opportunity amid a crisis.

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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

Both Sides of the Table

For reason number two people pay a higher price & rent in New York than they do in San Antonio, Texas. This is the time it takes for a bankruptcy or asset sale to occur. I saw VCs doing crazy things in 2007-08 when I first entered the VC market – crazy prices, limited due diligence, large funding rounds.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #17: On failure and resilience

Austin Startup

This wasn’t his first rodeo, as we say in Texas. Last night, Cotter was one of our keynote speakers, along with Mark Cuban, at the University of Texas for Longhorn Startup Demo Day (the event was just fantastic, by the way, and Josh Baer, Ben Dyer, and Bob Metcalfe deserve a huge round of applause for it). and I bet he’ll be back.

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A fundraiser in honor of Julie Gomoll

Austin Startup

It became one of the first major digital agencies in Texas. Julie took the money she made on the sale of Go Media to Excite, and invested in a coworking space named Launchpad. This wasn’t 2015 — this was 2007. Please join me in honoring the memory of Julie Gomoll, a true digital pioneer. Julie founded Go Media in 1987.

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Considering Employee Safety In Startup Mode

YoungUpstarts

These are management, sales and marketing, customer service, production/manufacturing, operations and safety. For example, employers must consider employees’ safety in sales and marketing when travel is required. Lewis Robinson is a business consultant specializing in social media marketing, CRM, and sales.

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Publicity Stunts: When Good Ideas Go Bad

crowdSPRING Blog

These efforts and others like them garnered tons of free press coverage for their sponsors, generated millions of impressions, and ultimately led to increased awareness and sales. Two trains were designated to travel around Texas to advertise the event. For one day, Crush became the second-largest city in Texas.

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Labor Day! Let’s Celebrate the Workers

crowdSPRING Blog

Parades are held, speeches are given, and workers across the country take an extra day’s rest from their labors to picnic, play with their kids, and (often) shop the sales that businesses love to offer on the last official day of summer. Chris is focused, loyal, flexible, and kind to everyone around him. How cool is that?

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