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6 Stories of Successful New Entrepreneurs to Inspire Your Business

Up and Running

Rather than seeking private funding, the company’s owners obtained funds through DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), committing them to building products for government use. Today UEC Electronics has increased its workforce more than tenfold, from that original 10 to now 115, and is considered a key government contractor.

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Startup Accelerator/Funding Opportunity: AEP’s IlluminationLAB

The Startup Magazine

Based at AEP headquarters in Columbus, Ohio, USA, the Lab will accelerate startups by collaborating on use cases and trialing products at scale. the opportunity to work with AEP mentors for a 10-week accelerator developing your POC. Source: AEP. Any company from any region or country can, and should, apply. May 15th 2019.

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Urban Technology: The Business of Smart Cities

The Startup Magazine

Smart cities are a new approach to urban development. They hope to “solve tangled and wicked problems inherited in the rapid urbanization,” according to research from the Center for Technology in Government at the State University of New York at Albany. Rapid urbanization is a crisis. Examples of Smart Cities.

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How to Start a Daycare Business

Up and Running

To get a sense of how to start a daycare business, we talked with Lindsey Roemen, owner of Lindsey’s Family Daycare in Larchwood, Iowa, and Shalonda Owens, owner of Fruitful Trees Learning Center in Columbus, Ohio, about their experiences as daycare owners. Be sure to continue collecting feedback from your clients.

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How Female Entrepreneurs Are Redefining the Business Culture Worldwide

Women Entrepreneurs Can

From tech-savvy businesses to remarkable fashion-oriented enterprises – generation z’s women make their dreams come true by following their greatest passions and developing the most successful companies of all time. They are developing a whole nation’s economies by creating some of the world’s most successful companies.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

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what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project? Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing. The way I do it.