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6 Stories of Successful New Entrepreneurs to Inspire Your Business

Up and Running

Seeing a 200-percent revenue growth in just the first year after securing that loan, TRISTAR took out an additional $500,000 SBA-backed loan to expand its physical presence into two more locations. It has grown from five employees generating $120,000 in annual revenue to 350 employees generating annual revenues of $16.5

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OSU President Calls for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Public Universities

Campus Entrepreneurship

Some snippets from the Chronicle of Higher Education : This nation and our world are not merely in a recession; we are also experiencing a resetting of the global economy. It is not just about raising revenues and cutting cost. Anyone in Columbus want to weight in?

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Software Eating Industries

Mucker Lab

The global trend for software powered innovations to permanently impacting every part of our lives and every part of our work is unstoppable and just at the beginning. A little more than one year ago, Marc Andreessen wrote a seminal piece which has defined venture investing and entrepreneurship since. Software is eating industries.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Menlo Park and The Silicon Valley Renaissance

ReadWriteStart

Tom from Omaha, Nebraska, shared an update about what is going on in that part of the world, as did other audience members from New York City, Israel, and Columbus, Ohio. In fact, Spencer Bardsley from Columbus, Ohio, pitched Wha' the.? - The company has been generating revenues for the past three years and is profitable.

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

maplebutter.com

I would focus on one product and set a goal to generate $1M in yearly revenue from it. Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost. I have a proposal written up including full cost and revenue projections. Once you’ve done that – then. 5% I believe.