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5 Lessons Learned Launching a Startup With No Plan, No Cash, and No MBA

Up and Running

We didn’t know anything about small business accounting or finance. We didn’t even know how to write a business plan. In hindsight, it’s understandable that friends and family were skeptical when we told them about our business. From backpackers to business owners. We’d never hired anyone.

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Global Impact: Social Entrepreneurship Companies

YoungUpstarts

Blake Mycoskie visited Argentina in 2006 and saw children walking in the streets outside Buenos Aires without shoes. Mycoskie founded TOMS the same year and established a “buy one, give one” model. For every pair of shoes sold, TOMS would provide a new pair of shoes to children in Argentina and other developing countries.

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