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Interplay Learning?—?Helping the Skilled Trades Rebuild a Bigger and Better Workforce

Austin Startup

This also came at a time of a growing skills gap with not enough skilled trades specialists to meet the huge demand, despite high unemployment levels due to the pandemic. The company frequently works with non-profit organizations to provide safe, interactive training to community members looking to launch or advance their careers.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Working a full-time (and demanding) job, a home, school and life, in general, was no easy feat, so I chose to leave my corporate job to an academic job. I originally provided pro-bono public relations services to artists and non-profits due to my love for the community and the arts. #5- To live my life as a stay-at-home mom.

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Making a Difference Through Your Career

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Choosing a career that allows you to give back to your community or take other measures to make the world a better place takes some thought. If you have a demanding, full-time job that doesn’t give you much time for humanitarian or ecological efforts, working remotely could be the answer. Work Remotely. Guide Young Minds.

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Statisticians make the world go round

The Startup Magazine

Governments use statistics in order to help them make decisions, they also use social science for research into communities, and this also leans heavily on statistics. North Carolina, Raleigh. There is no lack in demand for graduates specializing in statistics. They make the rules that govern everything we do day to day.

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How to Start a Farm: Your Complete Guide to Success

Up and Running

What if, as you’re getting ready to harvest your first batch, you then find out that all the demand for passion fruit is centered in Southern California, and not in Miami like you thought? If you’d taken the time to do your market research, you would have learned there was no demand for passion fruit in Florida. Be a good neighbor.

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19 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

I decided to start Noble Brewer to give great homebrewers an easy and legal way to share what they love doing and to give craft beer lovers a way to try amazing beers that the homebrewing community is creating. Babbel is now growing fast and witnessing strong international demand, with up to 120,000 app downloads daily.

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The Secret Sauce of a Successful Smart City

Austin Startup

Cartoon: Five people are sitting around a conference table discussing city planning and community engagement. Opening or releasing data sets provides an opportunity for cities internally and the developer community externally to use the data to build web-based and smartphone applications. What did you learn?