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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

In 2011, our family was sitting around the dinner table brainstorming when our teenage daughter Mia had a great idea – starting a company that sells the best possible organic roasted seaweed in delicious flavors. My business partner, Adam Hale, and I were both in Fort Wayne, Indiana when the company was founded. 1- From our daughter.

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A Conversation with 2020 Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang

View from Seed

I started Venture for America back in 2011 with the goal of creating thousands of American jobs in communities around the country. So, when I was researching my book, I looked into what actually happened to the manufacturing workers in Michigan, Indiana and in the South. And that’s just the way our system is structured.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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In early 2011 an acquisition by a Fortune 500 company fell apart. based companies initially funded by venture capital between 2006 and 2011, 84% now are closely held and operating independently, 11% were acquired or made initial public offerings of stock and 4% went out of business, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. California.

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A Boom Time for Education Start-Ups | Chronicle of Higher Education | #Edtech #hackedu

Campus Entrepreneurship

From DeSantis : Investments in education-technology companies nationwide tripled in the last decade, shooting up to $429-million in 2011 from $146-million in 2002, according to the Na­tional Venture Capital Association. And Courseload, the Indiana-based digital-textbook enterprise.

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