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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments in 2019

Hearpreneur

I can’t wait to see what 2020 brings! 2- Transformative development. 2019 was full of transformative development for Intellifluence. What makes me really proud though is we’ve been 100% bootstrapped for our 3.5 Thanks to Allison R Lancaster, Online Business Solutions by Allison R. Lancaster ! #2-

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Why do marketplaces make great businesses?

Austin Startup

One of the highest we saw in 2020 was Ke.com , a Chinese platform for buying and selling properties. It’s looking equally good for the bootstrapped and indie-funded marketplaces too. Find your vertical and stick to it (for a few years at least). This includes the cost of a domain name, a logo, some development work.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs Are Not Always Right

ReadWriteStart

Having turned down all overtures for investment, Zoho continues merrily on in its bootstrapping path. I suggested going for larger companies and also to pick some verticals where the value proposition really shines through. In that case, the verticals of choice could be manufacturing, wholesale and retail.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Top 10 Vertical and Social Web Trends For The Decade

ReadWriteStart

We started this week's roundtable with a discussion of all the resources we have brought together over the last three years to help entrepreneurs, including a comprehensive curriculum for entrepreneurship development on a large scale. wants to develop a mystery show. Very cool concept, designed by an energy scientist, upon which J.J.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Citefull

Austin Startup

Citefull Co-Founders: CSO Crystal Houston and CEO Kyle Grone The Forrest Four-Cast: February 27, 2020 According to a Pew Research Center study , Americans rate fake news as a larger problem than racism, climate change, or terrorism, one that is eroding people’s confidence in government and each other. or debunk?—?news I approached them.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Menlo Park and The Silicon Valley Renaissance

ReadWriteStart

We spent considerable time exploring ways to verticalize the app and creating an ad-supported business model instead, which would also broaden his exit options considerably. The challenges of bootstrapping a venture that is dependent on ad-revenue is, however, also quite significant.