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How to Get Your Startup from Point A to Point B

Startup Professionals Musings

Yes, just like an airplane flying from New York to Los Angeles, your path to success will look like an EKG line. If you don’t, you might take a left turn and end up in Cuba. ###### Today’s guest post is by Bob La Loggia, who is the founder and CEO of Appointment-Plus online scheduling software.

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21 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I work with clients from New York to Jerusalem, and get to work on the road, most recently beachside in Cuba and Brazil. So I started my content writing firm, and haven’t looked back. Now I get to work when I want, how I want, and with people who inspire me. Thanks to Rick Sloboda, Webcopyplus ! #20-

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When Products People Love Die in the Cloud

This is going to be BIG.

My dad, after a 20 year career as a New York City firefighter, went back to school and became an accountant. You''re left with no cottage industry of users--a SaaS Cuba, where you can seemingly keep a 1950''s car running forever. It would be cost prohibitive for anyone to stay on to run it, and it would eventually brake.

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29 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

Named after General Maceo who led Cuba to Independence against the Spaniards. We’ve built a brand around it and are now one of the top web design and digital agencies in New York. #26- It felt like an everyday war. Photo Credit: Mehdi Raad. Maceo was known as the Great Titan Lion because of his exceptional physical strength.

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Out of the Crisis #17: Max Henderson on Covid Act Now, exponential growth, and how to help

Startup Lessons Learned

As the son of immigrants from Cuba and Germany, Max has deep faith in the power of American ingenuity. But when you're at 500 and it goes to 1,000 in four days, and then it goes to 2,000 in four more days, and then 4,000 in four more days like we saw in New York, that's when things really become completely insane. of infected.

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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

Some of the amazing examples include: I Make Rotterdam project, where local residents made a bridge the government wouldn’t fund, The big + swimming poo l in New York’s Hudson river, and the New York high line reinvention. Surrealism Rising – Real and digital realms are converging in physical spaces.

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Out of the Crisis #26: Brian Armstrong of Coinbase on cryptocurrency, being mission-oriented, and institution building

Startup Lessons Learned

At one point we had to turn off all the hosts in Cuba, because US companies weren't allowed to work with Cuban citizens. They might list on the long-term stock exchange and another exchange, or they might list on like the Hong Kong exchange and the New York Stock Exchange or something.

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