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Before You Buy a Hotel Business, Answer These 4 Questions

Up and Running

While areas such as Las Vegas, San Francisco, and New York bring in the most tourists a year, know that high-mileage areas are already saturated with hotels and come with a more expensive up-front cost. Write a business plan. You can download a free Lean Plan template to help you get started.

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4 Founders & Harvard MBAs on Finding Startup Traction & MBAs-as-Entrepreneurs

View from Seed

million raised, per CrunchBase): It was January of second semester of my second year, and Michelle [Zatlyn, Matt’s co-founder] and I were brainstorming different ideas to enter into the business plan competition. Matt Prince , Co-Founder and CEO, CloudFlare (Web performance and security to protect and accelerate websites; $72.1

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Stop Bad-mouthing the Millenial Generation and Read the Facts

Up and Running

A new study by CT Corporation shows that 61 percent of recent college grads want to start their own business, 45 percent believe that it is likely they will start a business, and 51 percent say starting their own business will in the long-term provide greater security than a job with an existing company.

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Small Business Spotlight of the Week: Swiftrank

crowdSPRING Blog

I was intrigued to find a well-established website for a city like Las Vegas up for a logo re-design on crowdSPRING so I emailed Sue Heilbronner, the CMO of Swiftrank Global and President of Swiftrank North America, the buyer for the project. I can hear the slot machines calling my name… Okay, back to reality, sorry!

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Out of the Crisis #18: Sal Khan on institution building, solving the digital divide, and education as the lever for all decisions

Startup Lessons Learned

Our server costs, we're on track to be 200%, 300%. So, in some ways, for sure our costs have gone up, and we're trying to fast forward all these programs to support people even more. Sal Khan : how do we keep up with the costs of things? Could they make businesses out of it? They're almost linear in terms of usage.

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Boom and Bust and What Comes Next

Scalable Startup

The 2000 collapse followed a period of manic investing when entrepreneurs with off-the-wall ideas and ridiculous or nonexistent business plans sought and received funding from ill-informed investors blinded by the magical aura of the Internet or just simple greed.

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28 Entrepreneurs Share What They’re Thankful For

Hearpreneur

11-The Cost of Quality Time & What I Lost. Yes, for me choosing quality time came at a high cost. 19- Running a successful, growing business. I left a 6 figure job 17 months ago with a loose business plan and a lot of ideas and passion. 22- Our Small Business Community. Thanks to Ajay Yadav, Roomi ! #11-The