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The October cS Award and the September cS Award Winner!

crowdSPRING Blog

Last summer, we announced that we would issue a monthly cS Award to honor quality work by designers and writers in the crowdSPRING community. Atmosphere’s real name is David, he is based in the Czech Republic, and is a new member of the crowdSPRING community, but has already participated in 10 projects and won 3 those!

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21 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. My wife and I were driving home from North Dakota trying to think about a cool new name for our mattress company. Image Credit: Jeff Quinn.

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24 Entrepreneurs Reveal What Entrepreneurship Means to Them

Hearpreneur

It’s not enough to want to make money and acquire the various perks that come along with it, but instead to be in the position to give something back to the community, and to our society as well. I left the Czech Republic at age 16 to pursue the American Dream. It’s being blind while seeing more clearly than anyone.

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Small Business Spotlight of the Week: Alfred Jorgensen Laboratory

crowdSPRING Blog

AJL supply these yeasts to breweries in the UK, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, France, Spain, Brazil, Chile, USA, Canada, Australia, the Philippines, Korea, India, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Russia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Czech Republic, Greece, Belgium, Holland, Vi etnam, Germany and many other countries. I was impressed!

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29 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Sadly, many people in our society come from communities where they were never, or rarely, touched by their parents, family members, or friends or only experience touch through sex. We would name our sales intelligence company Vainu. After the Velvet Revolution in the Czech Republic, the idea of being an entrepreneur was new.

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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

Startup Lessons Learned

Before that I was an equal partner in Kaggle, which is a popular data science competition community. So plenty of dark bits, but also this weird discovery that you can create incredibly close connections with people that I've never met before and build a global community of people who want nothing more than to help save lives.