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14 Entrepreneurs Share Their Views on Writing a Business Plan or Not

Hearpreneur

9- Yes, to mitigate risk and have an exit strategy Photo Credit: Cyble Rizwan Business plans are also useful for sharing your vision with partners, employees, or potential collaborators, ensuring everyone is on the same page. Thanks to Jordan Adair, Shirt Max ! #14- Thanks Stephanie Venn Watson, Fatty15 ! #9-

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30 Entrepreneurs Share Their Tips and Tricks for Staying Motivated

Hearpreneur

A network of friends and partners can also serve as a great assurance and reminder that you’re not walking alone. 10- By directly engaging with customers Photo Credit: Jordan Adair Firstly, setting precise, attainable goals is paramount. Thanks to Jordan Adair, ShirtMax ! #11- Instead, I relied on agility and adaptability.

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22 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Companies They Admire Most For Innovation

Hearpreneur

For me, it's a live example of agile and sustainable business. Photo Credit: Jordan W. Thanks to Jordan W. They've partnered with celebrities and musicians to target the younger demographic while making sure to push their ads harder during specific times of higher stress such as the US election or during the pandemic.

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20 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Then we paired it with a cool icon that represents wisdom and agility, Owl. My partner and I joked about being night owls so it all came together to become Infinite Owl Marketing and Design Studio, our full-service marketing agency for content and creative strategy and execution. Photo Credit: Jordan Barnett. Kimberly Urosek.

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Nonprofit CEO Providing PPEs For Essential Workers

Hearpreneur

Along with longtime partners like Warby Parker, Ella and the VisionSpring team are making it their priority to use their immense resources for this unprecedented fight. The defining moment for VisionSpring was when Founder Jordan Kassalow went on a volunteer mission to Mexico at age 23. He was seeing the world for the first time.

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Nonprofit CEO Providing PPEs For Essential Workers

Hearpreneur

Along with longtime partners like Warby Parker, Ella and the VisionSpring team are making it their priority to use their immense resources for this unprecedented fight. The defining moment for VisionSpring was when Founder Jordan Kassalow went on a volunteer mission to Mexico at age 23. He was seeing the world for the first time.

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Getting Lean in Education – By Getting Out of the Classroom

Steve Blank

Their goal was to train University scientists and researchers to use Lean Startup methods (business model design, customer development and agile engineering) to commercialize their science. Karl recruited a teaching team (Ann McKenna, Chris Swan, Russ Korte, Shawn Jordan, Micah Lande and Bob MacNeal) and Jerry Engel trained them.

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