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24 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Love About Being An Entrepreneur

Hearpreneur

I became a full-time entrepreneur in 2015 and since then, I was able to immigrate from Europe to Canada, obtain a visa for the U.S., I also love that it’s a community, and how entrepreneurs help each other. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. have lived in Prince Edward Island, New York, St. Louis and now Texas.

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Looking for Funds in All the Right Places

Austin Startup

Austin Ventures remained the dominant firm in Austin — and Texas — from the launch of its predecessor fund, Rust Ventures, in 1979 through 2015. link] But by 2015, it had become clear that Austin Ventures was unable to raise its eleventh fund and Fortune signaled its demise with an article entitled The Death of Austin Ventures.

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The nonprofits I’m involved with and why

Jeff Hilimire

To that end, I’ve recently shifted the community efforts I’m involved in to be more focused on the things I’m passionate about and where I can personally make the most impact. Boards I’m on: Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce – I’m as passionate as anyone about my city. I started this in 2013.

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7 Steps For Establishing The Right Business Model

Startup Professionals Musings

In the investment community, this work is called proving the business model. A small advisory board of outside people with experience in your domain can give you the unbiased feedback you need, as well as connections for setting up distribution and sales channels. Here again is your chance to make pivots for almost no cost.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #15: The fallacy of risk in entrepreneurship

Austin Startup

As Bill Gross spoke about at 2015’s TED conference, market timing is the single biggest factor for startup success (a worthy watch). And Dean became our first Advisory Board member of many. I smile thinking about how community member and customer centric we’ve been. Have we gotten it all right? Of course not.

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23 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

We had a tough rebrand as we were initially founded as Trainer Communications in 1995, however we made the official transformation to 10Fold Communications in 2015. We proceeded to conduct a survey with current and previous clients using them as an advisory board for our re-naming plans. 22-Hired a trademark coach.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #18: The strength of natural network effects

Austin Startup

This lesson was first shared at Lucky7 on January 15, 2015. for example, check out The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #14: Selling to the “Cool Kids” , and I suggest hiring some great evangelists as full-time and part-time employees and also as Advisory Board members?—?check check out The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #1 on that front).