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To Infinity and Beyond: How Entrepreneurism is Making Space Tourism Viable

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In 1994 the American Society of Civil Engineers convened with business people in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to discuss the technical and financial feasibility of space tourism, then still a hypothetical concept. In 2000, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos established Blue Origin. Named after Alan B.

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Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools

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Erin Hoskins, Senior Marketing Director, New Media, Meredit h. T ool: Curalate URL: Curalate.com What it does: Monitors and measures traffic from “visual-based platforms”—namely (for now, at least) Pinterest. PaidContent.org Founder Launches Travel Media and Data Company. FOLIO: Alert News Updates. First Name.

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SXSW Startups: UbiGro

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UbiQD Founder and CEO Hunter McDaniel, PhD, explained more about how UbiGro works. I truly believe this is the year where quantum dots make a name for themselves in agriculture, and so its about marketing, sales, manufacturing, and generally about traction in the market. What is your competitive advantage? We are actually in the no.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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NAME Comcast. NAME Verizon Communications. NAME Yahoo. NAME Shikhar Ghosh. NAME Toby Stuart. NAME Daniel Dreymann. NAME Charles Holloway. NAME David Cowan. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Domain Name/Basic Site. New Hampshire. New Jersey.

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Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder

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Home About Contact Home About Contact The Metamorphosis Becoming an Entrepreneur, by Matt Mireles Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder I started SpeakerText in October 2008 during the financial apocalypse. You need a Co-Founder, not an Engineering Bitch. Treat everyone you hire like a co-founder. No one funded us.

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MASSCHALLENGE TEXAS IN AUSTIN 2019 NAMES TOP 14 FINALIST STARTUPS

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MASSCHALLENGE TEXAS NAMES TOP 14 FINALIST STARTUPS FROM AUSTIN-BASED ACCELERATOR International accelerator to award up to $500,000 in equity-free cash prizes to select top startups from the region’s third startup accelerator program at Oct. 17 awards ceremony (AUSTIN, Texas?—?Sept. 19, 2019; source: Juice Consulting)?—?

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