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6 Stories of Successful New Entrepreneurs to Inspire Your Business

Up and Running

TRISTAR — Engineering its own success. An engineering services firm, TRISTAR is the first woman and minority-owned firm based in Indiana to offer the Department of Defense (DoD) technical support services. UEC Electronics — Engineering contracts. Columbus Technologies and Services — To NASA and beyond.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 20: Nayeem Hussain and Will Zell

Steve Blank

. … (Still) We had no idea the complexity that would be involved from sourcing the manufacturer and how long it would take once you found that manufacturer to be able to engineer the product… It’s very different when you’re engineering a product to make 100 of parts. …. Drive Capital came in (to Columbus).

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Twitter Link Roundup #162 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

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Facebook Has Some Tips | Search Engine Land - [link]. Ad agencies are discovering products like Columbus discovered America - [link]. Scaling Your UX Strategy | Robert Fabricant-Harvard Business Review - [link]. 5 Predictions For Online Advertising | Fast Company – [link]. SEO For Facebook Graph Search?

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Future of Commerce and Retail Hot Takes With Web Smith

Hunter Walker

I’ve been fortunate enough to hang virtually with Web Smith for the last few years which has exposed me to sharp thinking about brands, retail, parenting and, uniquely in my echo chamber, Columbus, Ohio. Soon after, our family moved to Columbus, Ohio for my marketing position at Rogue. Why make Amazon’s job easier?

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10 Best Cities in the United States for Startups and Entrepreneurs (2018)

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behind Silicon Valley and New York), the city of flowers and sunshine boasts one of the largest concentrations of engineering graduates in the country. Columbus, OH. In addition to being the third largest startup hub in the U.S. LA has also increasingly attracted more and more venture capital investment and investors. Minneapolis, MN.

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Urban Technology: The Business of Smart Cities

The Startup Magazine

Department of Transportation (USDOT) Smart City Challenge, a $50 million grant prize that went to Columbus, Ohio, in 2016. The pervasiveness of technology and the expansion of open data policies is about to unleash an economic growth engine for urban innovation that we have never seen,” John Gordon of GE Digital told TechRepublic. “We

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12 Questions: Meet Dylan Barmmer (USA)

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I wrote for and co-edited the Christopher Columbus High School (Miami, FL) quarterly student paper, The Log, and went on to serve as a writer and Assistant Sports Editor for the daily student paper, The Observer, at The University of Notre Dame, where I also earned a BA in English. Come spring into life. with a rich community.

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