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10 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Leverage Networking in Business

Hearpreneur

We try to have each attorney do at least 2 lunches per month with current and potential referral partners. Our view is that high seas raise all boats, and so by helping our referral partners to meet the other referral partners they are looking for we can all do more business and build more referrals for each other.

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Interplay Learning?—?Helping the Skilled Trades Rebuild a Bigger and Better Workforce

Austin Startup

depended on these two changes being implemented rapidly, as did the wider economy and job market. Interplay recently partnered with the Goodwill Construction Skills Training Center, an organization that helps people in the Charlotte, North Carolina community access high-potential, family-sustaining skilled trade careers at no cost to them.

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A Google Docs interview with Richard Simms, co-founder of Tech Talent South

Jeff Hilimire

Right now, we run programs here in Atlanta (where we started the company) as well as in Raleigh, Charlotte, and Asheville, NC. I was doing an early-stage startup in Chicago and Betsy was running a physical product development company in Charlotte that she’d recently sold. So Betsy is in Charlotte and you’re in Atlanta, correct?

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28 Entrepreneurs Share Their Tips and Tricks of Staying Motivated

Hearpreneur

A network of friends and partners can also serve as a great assurance and reminder that you’re not walking. It’s awesome that we’ve fed so many, and the prospect of reaching many more across new markets is so exciting. Thanks to Lorrie Thomas Ross, Web Marketing Therapy, Inc. ! #10- It is the best feeling!

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[US] Rutgers Partners H360 Capital And NJIT To Attract Tech Companies To Newark

YoungUpstarts

Charlotte, North Carolina-based H360 Capital is focused on companies developing ‘market disrupting’ technologies and, through its “Big Ideas Initiative: B2i” will invest up to US$50,000 in 20 technology start-ups in the Newark area.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain How They are Incorporating Social Entrepreneurship in Their Business

Hearpreneur

We have partnerships with a large number of lawn care companies and professionals which we then connect our customers with, and we want to start focusing on partnering with companies/professionals that use more environmentally-friendly tools. As part of our marketing strategy, we host a number of talks and create videos to educate people.

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Sometimes your whole life can change from what you thought was a loss

Jeff Hilimire

She’s also excelled at everything she’s done in her career, resulting in her being given the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Marketing Association (she’s way too young for that award, but very deserving). Fast-forward three months and I applied to UNC-Charlotte in hopes of being recruited onto the tennis team.