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8 Potential Entrepreneur Assists From Your Alma Mater

Startup Professionals Musings

Every startup needs to start their funding search looking for grants, with no equity dilution, as well as contests and foundations. Attract a co-founder and key team members. For example, I live in Arizona, home of Arizona State University and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

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8 Ways Your Old School Can Energize Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Every startup needs to start their funding search looking for grants, with no equity dilution, as well as contests and foundations. Attract a co-founder and key team members. For example, I live in Arizona, home of Arizona State University and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

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Helping Entrepreneurs Get To Where They Want To Go Faster

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Carolyn serves as the co-founder and CEO of Hello Alice. Carolyn Rodz co-founded a free digital platform that connects business owners with the resources they need to launch and grow. She serves as the co-founder and CEO of Hello Alice. Find files faster with visual search and AI auto-tagging.

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How Entrepreneurs Can Capitalize On Their Alma Mater

Startup Professionals Musings

Every startup needs to start their funding search looking for grants, with no equity dilution, as well as contests and foundations. Attract a co-founder and key team members. For example, I live in the Phoenix area, home of Arizona State University and the Thunderbird School of Global Management.

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29 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

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And fun we’ve been having crossing the the country helping companies communicate better with their customers and co-workers. While on vacation in Sedona, Arizona, my destiny was revealed to me. I remember hearing the Spanx founder, Sara Blakely, talk about brand names and how having a strong K sound in your name made it more memorable.

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How I Found a Great CTO

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I was lucky to sign on as advisor and investor the founder of a very high-profile consumer Internet site who happens to also be a former engineer, who I will call Richard. To sum up, heres what I would do again as a non-technical founder looking for a technical co-founder or CTO.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Did Prior to Starting Their Businesses

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By this time, Erin had already spent 4 years in operations at a startup that was in skyrocket growth mode, so she knew her knowledge in scaling operations was as valuable as this idea; she became my co-founder. I’m an architect turned entrepreneur, Founder and CEO of Cheekd a mobile dating app that makes missed connections obsolete.