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20 Entrepreneurs Share Their Business Goals for 2018

Hearpreneur

It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. This year we will hit our 100,000th person on experiential tours of Detroit and launch a new program that shares lessons learned with other leaders. 1- Efficiency. 6- Expansion.

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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

Both Sides of the Table

Mostly we got to see the team operate in stressful times and that changed my perspective on the deal. Maybe he’ll reveal our conversation when he announced. But the internal conversation started today – trust me. Depressing. It felt awful. Kind of like you felt as personal investors, no doubt. 2009. .&# August 2011.

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How to Start a Bed and Breakfast

Up and Running

To provide an inside perspective on what it takes to run and maintain a successful B&B, I interviewed Kathleen Karamanos, owner and operator of Fundy Heights Bed and Breakfast in Saint John, New Brunswick, on Canada’s scenic East Coast. What is a bed and breakfast?

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The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups

www.paulgraham.com

In townslike Houston and Chicago and Detroit its too small to measure. Standards arehigher; people are more sympathetic to what youre doing; the kindof people you want to hire want to live there; supporting industriesare there; the people you run into in chance meetings are in thesame business. Afterthat theres not much.

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Out of the Crisis #9, the founders of Frontline Foods on the moral imperative to support frontline workers at scale

Startup Lessons Learned

You can see a list of every city where they operate and make directed donations on their site.)Thanks You can listen to our conversation on Apple , Google , or wherever you like to download podcasts. In addition, the transcript of my conversation with Sydney, Ryan and Frank is below. This is the retreat. Eric Ries : Okay.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 23: Nina Tandon and Brandon McNaughton

Steve Blank

A tech entrepreneur and inventor, Brandon McNaughton was entrepreneur in residence for Detroit Innovate , an early-stage venture fund. Now that’s operating in uncertainty. We were hiring our first employee … we didn’t have a lot of (money in the bank), we only had one grant $350,000 at the moment.

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My roundabout journey to Austin

Austin Startup

Two weeks before my scheduled start date (and a week after I put down a deposit for a downtown lease), HR called to let me know that the company over-hired for their Austin office and that I could re-interview in Mountain View, CA. And yes, I would be on the hook for breaking the lease! But as is usually the case, things worked out.

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