YoungUpstarts

JULY 7, 2011

If you’re wondering about how small business view bank loans, this infographic from Chicago, Illinois-based credit card processing fee comparison engine FeeFighters shows that only 42-percent of small businesses see bank loans as a viable financing option. Community banks used to lend to small local businesses.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

When it became clear that waiting for government funding and support would take weeks, if not months, Lenore instead looked to her community for both, using her experience with the layoffs and her expertise as a small business owner to solve two of the massive problems crashing over our society.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

by Alon Alroy, co-founder and CMO of Bizzabo . This three day conference has become the “must-attend” event for anyone who is active or new to the startup-community. Immerse yourself in the tech community at Techweek. Don’t miss the small business sales and marketing event of the year! InfusionCon.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2016

The Small Business Administration and the digital services agency 18F are trying to help entrepreneurs build successful companies and the 21st century digital government. Small Business Administration. Small Business Administration ’s Associate Administrator and chief of its investment and innovation programs.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

There are many companies that are competing to be the “operating system” for small businesses. Among those competing for this vision are PayPal/eBay, Square and Groupon, with each struggling to pull together pieces of the equation and, importantly, reach the small business in a cost-efficient manner at scale.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

They co-founded it with former U.S. Jen is the founder and former executive director of Code for America. Deputy Chief Technology Officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 2013–2014, where she founded the United States Digital Service. 35:50) Building community on text messages and threads.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 1, 2013

One such solution is Yiftee ( [link] ), an iPhone application launched in December last year that allows users to buy another person a gift from over two million shops and restaurants throughout the United States. ”

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Austin Startup

APRIL 15, 2018

Central Texas founders and investors will want to catch the ACE opening session at 10:00 am on Thursday, April 19. The last session of the event begins at 5:00 pm on Friday, April 20 and features a Pitch Competition showcasing three cannabis-based startups from around the United States: Lumen (Oakland), BDTNDR (Austin) and FLUX (Dallas).

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

MARCH 1, 2010

As recently as 2007 the Small Business Administration estimated that there were more than 21 million self-employed entrepreneurs without employees in the United States. More recently a new alternative has emerged, called co-working spaces, where self-employed people and freelancers can come together in a common space.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 6, 2014

Show Me Your Calendar and Your Checkbook, and I’ll Show You What’s Really Important in Your Life written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing It is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is John Rydell – Enjoy! photo credit: Panpote.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

Yes, the country north of the 49th parallel may have 1/10th the population of the United States , but when it comes down to pure entrepreneurship it punches far above its weight class. The roster of the country’s best-known business successes confirms this reputation for excellence. There are a number of reasons for this.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 13, 2010

Michael Samson is the cofounder of crowdSPRING.com, and he joins me now. Doesn’t that kind of confirm the worst fears of the established design community? We have a community of about 64,000 designers and writers. BOB GARFIELD : Michael Samson is the cofounder of crowdSPRING.com. Hey, Mike, welcome to the show.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 13, 2010

Michael Samson is the cofounder of crowdSPRING.com, and he joins me now. Doesn’t that kind of confirm the worst fears of the established design community? We have a community of about 64,000 designers and writers. BOB GARFIELD : Michael Samson is the cofounder of crowdSPRING.com. Hey, Mike, welcome to the show.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 6, 2015

To give you an idea of what other business owners are planning to do in 2015, we asked entrepreneurs to send us their resolutions. Here’s a compilation of business resolutions for 2015. Well-known comedian Dan Nainan relayed a simple and interesting goal: to open the first all-clean comedy club in the United States.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? But I don’t think so.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

Yes, the country north of the 49th parallel may have 1/10th the population of the United States , but when it comes down to pure entrepreneurship it punches far above its weight class. The roster of the country’s best-known business successes confirms this reputation for excellence. There are a number of reasons for this.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

We were founded by a gentleman named Bob Young, who was the original co-founder of Red Hat, which is a massive software company. So that's the quick and dirty of our origin story is that, and Bob Young, by the way, is still the sole owner and founder of the company, and very much and involved in what we do on a day-to-day basis.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

As companies and cities wrestle with the future of work, future of cities, and future of tech made possible in a post-COVID future, the question is whether it also impacts — and presents an opportunity to address — one of the greatest problems of our time: the unequal distribution of economic opportunity across the United States.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

If you’re working with an open source project, for example, it’s important that you have a definitive business model to drive revenue — though not at the cost of alienating your community of core contributors. They may also contribute code to the community that comprises the backbone of their technology.

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Designmantic Blog

MARCH 6, 2018

It is apparent that the United States has the highest performing entrepreneurship, but what is truly amazing is how women contribute the biggest growth in revenue, employment and financial efficiency. Here are some of the most interesting facts about female founders as well as startups. Background Image: Unsplash/Rawpixel.

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Designmantic Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2015

From modest beginnings to international fame, here are ten formerly ordinary business owners that made their businesses extraordinary – 1. Sergey Brin – Co-founder of ‘Google’. Ben Cohen – Co-founder of ‘Ben & Jerry’s’. Howard Schultz – Founder Of ‘Starbucks’. Net Worth – $34.3

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 5, 2015

The reasons are as varied as the businesses themselves. 1 – Community. My favorite part about being an entrepreneur is community. As the founder of an online business in a niche domain (international MBA admissions consulting), I help applicants get into the top universities. Image Credit : Nick Lucs.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 12, 2017

He was one of the founders of a conference called Local You and now is a co-founder of getfivestarts.com a review service that helps local businesses. John: Can we say that there are the most important local ranking factors today for a local business? So Mike, thanks for joining me. Mike: Sure. Mike: Yes I did.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Thanks to Zachary Lezberg, Small Business Expo ! #10- When I founded the first and only woman-owned RV dealership in the United States, people told me I would never succeed. To me personally, being the founder of an online business, distribution will never be a problem. Photo Credit: Gigi Stetler.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 12, 2020

Lloyd and Mary are the founders of the co-op we now know as REI. I look up to them because they were able to turn their passion into a business that helped others share in the benefit of purchasing high-quality outdoor gear at a reasonable price. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. 16- Lloyd and Mary Anderson.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

Just before the IPO, I had a far-reaching conversation with co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong as he approached this major milestone for the company he co-founded back in 2012. Can institutions be totally distributed or should they be rooted and loyal to a certain community or geography?

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Are you an entrepreneur or small business owner with questions about funding your small business? Maybe you are wondering which metrics to track, or whether or not you should take out a loan for your business. Now I train people in communications and leadership. My name is John Bates. Thank you Jared.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 16, 2022

Rune is the co-founder and CEO of Mentorcam, a marketplace where people can access high-profile mentors for 1:1 advice. In this episode, I talk with the co-founder and CEO of Mentorcam, Rune Hauge, about how he’s redefining mentorship by making it easier for entrepreneurs to gain access to expert advice and support.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

I am the founder and Program Director of a very unique and dynamic community-based outpatient behavioral health treatment facility based in Brooklyn, New York called One World Counseling. I go to places in the community to speak about mental health treatment services where most other treatment providers would hardly ever consider.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 10, 2017

8- Community. A community is all around us comprised of diverse people who are all looking for the same thing: to belong to a community of people. As an entreprenuer I have found the deeper sense of community and find the face of community in many forms and in many places. 22- Our Small Business Community.

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