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14 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Are Incorporating Social Entrepreneurship in Their Business

Hearpreneur

At Maniology, we make it our all to post as much as we can on our social media so that we can not only show our audience our products and latest features but to engage with them as well. We help institutions and companies create, embed, manage, and assess text message courses for their students, customers, and employees.

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The Endless Frontier: U.S. Science and National Industrial Policy (part 1)

Steve Blank

Post WWII the responsibility for investing in research split between agencies focused on weapons development and space exploration (being completely customer-driven) and other agencies charted to fund basic and applied research in science and medicine (being driven by peer-review.). The irony is that while the U.S.

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An Alternative to the Uncertainty of Outcoursing

The Entrepreneurial Mind

DevDigital has offices in Nashville, Tennessee and Baroda, India. DevDigital purchased a small Web site programming shop in India that was being sold by one of their customers. “My ENTREPRENEURIAL PROFILE : Peter Marcum: DevDigital. The company would refurbish this hardware and resell it to small independent network companies.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Our swimwear line was designed with all-female bodies in mind because we want all of our customers to feel laid back and relaxed in our swimwear. The first reflects our mission to help our primary customers. To me (and my customers), the name is easy to recall and directly explains my business. 2- Based on my city's name.

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30 Entrepreneurs Share Their Tips and Tricks for Staying Motivated

Hearpreneur

#13- By being customer-centric Photo Credit: Shawn Plummer Whenever your motivation starts to drop, think of the customers who are relying on you to fulfill their needs. Being customer-centric means you are constantly wanting to learn about the changing needs of your customers. Thanks to Dan Gray, Vendry ! #21-

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How to Get Early Customers to Respond to Your Cold Emails

www.ashmaurya.com

You can learn more about his approach to developing customer relationships in his new book Cold Calling Early Customers. There are many channels that can produce your first early customers and contacts, but the one I see most often is cold email. “We both went to Tennessee!” He is a Ph.D. Are you a Wolverine?”

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

2) Making high-quality products available to the public. Products that have in the bottle what they say on the outside with 3rd party testing to prove it. Working for a corporation I was just a cog in a massive wheel and never really had control of impacting actual customers. I felt as if I wasn’t being challenged.