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6 Tips for Coming Up With Your Million-Dollar Business Idea

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Don’t get focused on the tech or how to dominate the market, just identify a problem and set about solving it. Along the way, the group brought on another classmate, Joe Miller, to handle the technology end. After that, she used a combination of high-tech and low-tech to develop her idea. “I In the end, the review?

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20 Entrepreneurs Share Their Business Goals for 2018

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This means constantly looking for improvements to our automation technology, using that automation more, and diligently pursuing excellence for each client’s dream website. 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.

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Bad Boys and the Fab Five: Business Lessons from Basketball History

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In April of 2014, ESPN released its latest entry in the “30 for 30″ series, telling the story of the Detroit Pistons during their infamous “Bad Boys” era. But there, sandwiched between dynasties and legacies, the Detroit Pistons had built a championship team on the back of Isaiah Thomas. I run over and…I panicked.”.

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Microsoft’s Bing Fund will give online startups cash, advice, and discounts

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VentureBeat | News About Tech, Money and Innovation. Despite the name, the Bing Fund doesn’t require its companies to work with the Bing search engine or the technologies associated with Bing, including speech recognition, image processing, video, local/geo/map technologies, and so forth. Whats Hot Menu. what’s hot?

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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Tech Gadgets Mobile Enterprise GreenTech CrunchBase TechCrunch TV Disrupt SF More TechCrunch TV Beta Invites Crunchies Elevator Pitches Gillmor Gang Podcasts TechCrunch Europe TechCrunch Trends TechCrunch France TechCrunch Japan Whats Hot: Android Apple Facebook Google Microsoft Twitter Yahoo Zynga Subscribe: From Nothing To Something.

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How to Start a Bed and Breakfast

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There may have been a time when opening a B&B in the greater Detroit area may have been successful; however, given the economic hardships that area has been facing in the last 10-15 years, it hardly seems like a solid business venture now. That strategy has since proven to be very successful.

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The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups

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In townslike Houston and Chicago and Detroit its too small to measure. Who knows exactly how these factors combine to booststartups in Silicon Valley and squish them in Detroit, but itsclear they do from the number of startups per capita in each. The danger here is that you ruin your reputation. Afterthat theres not much.

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