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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Thanks to Steve Groom, Maryland Home Buyers in Baltimore ! #6- My first business, a digital agency called MPSWORKS, came about purely based on demand for digital services and to generally help make a difference for small businesses across the UK by creating strong work that would help them prosper. Photo Credit: Kendra Hill.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Hemafuse

Austin Startup

Yarina spoke about the meaning of Sisu in Finnish, the importance of building community, and what she loves about being in Baltimore. This will require new partners, new skill sets, and new business model innovation. Tell us your favorite thing about being based in Baltimore. What is your top goal for Sisu Global for 2020?

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How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea

socialmatchbox.com

Founders seem to take for granted exactly how in demand a good programmer is. Simultaneously, founders tend to take for granted how in demand bad programmers are too. There is a huge demand for programmers in America – good and bad. The old rules of supply and demand should apply in this case, but they don’t.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

Both Sides of the Table

I know it’s not single-handed as he has both fantastic partners at Foundry Group and many other community leaders. But as I look at the GRP Partners returns we’ve made a lot of money investing in companies in New York, Chicago, Baltimore, Las Vegas, Arizona and Seattle. My recipe for Seattle or your community: 1.

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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

Both Sides of the Table

And I also now have to raise money myself, but this time from bigger institutions that our industry calls LPs (limited partners). Partners make investment decisions. Also recognize that WITHIN a VC you have partners who focus on different areas. Most VC partners do 2-3 deals per year max (except for the higher volume shops).

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Out of the Crisis #16: Robert Schooley on why we weren't prepared, long-term thinking, and how to make decisions for the greater good.

Startup Lessons Learned

And I was training in East Baltimore at the time and most of my patients were intercity members of the Baltimore community. I have a brilliant partner named Natasha Martin who doesn't actually use modeling. Also, it is a cluster of diseases that disproportionately affected people at the other end of the economic spectrum.