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24 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Love About Being An Entrepreneur

Hearpreneur

Being in love with your business, when you’re an entrepreneur, is even better. Although there are days when tossing in your hat seems like a viable option, remembering how much you love your “job” can quickly snap an entrepreneur out of that mentality. We asked some entrepreneurs what they loved about “being their own boss.”. #1-

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Looking for Funds in All the Right Places

Austin Startup

Looking for Funds in All the Right Places: The Definitive Guide to Austin Capital By David Altounian and Stephen Straus OVERVIEW For entrepreneurs: We’ve compiled a definitive list of sources of capital in Austin to help focus your fundraising efforts.

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Swedish Immigrant Helps Reinvent the Mouthguard Industry

Hearpreneur

Entrepreneurs are continuously discovering that if you find a place, you can create a company. Sometimes a great advisory board can be just as useful. Can you share some advice on how entrepreneurs can go about making the right connections to help lift their business off the ground? The answer isn’t always VC’s or angels.

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7 Steps For Establishing The Right Business Model

Startup Professionals Musings

Most technical entrepreneurs focus hard on building an innovative product, but forget that an elegant solution doesn’t automatically translate into a successful business. Marty Zwilling ** First published on Entrepreneur.com on 1/30/2015. business business model entrepreneur price is right startup'

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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.

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

Austin Startup

As I mentioned at the beginning of this series/ebook, over the years I’ve noticed that I tend to frequently share certain Lucky7 posts with entrepreneurs we’ve backed , team members at data.world, or other startup investors I know. So I’m packaging the best of them up for you here in a new series called The Entrepreneur’s Essentials.

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Lean LaunchPad – For Deep Science and Technology

Steve Blank

For example, life sciences versus commercial applications have radically different reimbursement, regulatory, clinical trials, scientific advisory boards, demand creation, etc. A must-take for entrepreneurs!” 2015 Instructors : Jeff Epstein, Steve Weinstein. ” Diversity.

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