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20 Entrepreneurs Share Their Takeaways from 2020

Hearpreneur

Throughout the different phases of the pandemic, we have spent even more time with our existing customers and actively sought out their advice on how we can make our platform and services better as this distributed work environment continues. Photo Credit: Jordan Smyth. Thanks to Jordan Smyth, Gleamin ! #18- 17- Three lessons.

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SXSW Startups: Pawame Powers Africa

Austin Startup

And we’ve been selected to pitch for the MIT Enterprise Forum Pan-Arab Region’s Innovate for Refugees award in Amman, Jordan, based on our work in Kakuma refugee camp in northwestern Kenya. As much attention as it gets, I don’t think we have really grasped the full ramifications of distributed solar energy generation. The founders?—?Alex

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How to Start a Brewery

Up and Running

Where in your area will you find land or a building with the right zoning, size, facilities, and access for bringing in raw materials, attracting customers, and/or shipping out finished beer for distribution? How wide do you want to grow production and distribution, or do you want to focus on selling over your own bar?

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How To Staff A Startup With (Almost) No Money

ReadWriteStart

Two-time entrepreneur Jordan Eisenberg, founder of UrgentRX warns that, “Few things in a start up are more important than carefully managing cash. Because the platform lets curators distribute digests in their own names. Sometimes startups need to hire real paid employees. Life Hacks.

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How to Start a Brewery: Growing Your Own Craft Beer Business

Up and Running

Most small businesses and startups that are looking to grow— hire a new employee , or buy a new piece of equipment, or open a new location —need to think hard about cash flow, or making sure they have enough money in the bank to meet payroll and other financial obligations. Initial plans are to produce three main lines of beer.

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Parabol Hires Freelancers To Boost Creativity

Transformify

Jordan Husney is the CEO & Founder of Parabol. Jordan holds several patents in distributed systems and wireless technology and lives with his family in Los Angeles, California. Jordan, why do you hire gig workers and freelancers ? So again, we contract the work to someone outside of our internal team.

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Meanwhile, I was doing a great job creating content for my website and ranking in the search engines – so good a job, that people wanted to hire me to handle their content and SEO. We hired a consultant to promote the book, allowing us to reach 14 different Amazon Bestseller lists and selling over 1,000 copies in the first 48 hours.