Hearpreneur

JANUARY 3, 2018

Often entrepreneurs and business owners create their New Year’s Resolutions around their business. We asked 19 entrepreneurs to share their business goals and what they were looking forward to in 2018. #1- Additionally, we’re investing heavily in digital marketing to build another recurring revenue channel for our clients.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 23, 2014

That franchise, of course, became Kentucky Fried Chicken. The problem is many entrepreneurs aren’t willing to take that risk. Entrepreneurs miss out on opportunities because they give up after one ‘no’ when the second or third or sixth request might have yielded a ‘yes.’. The lesson? Don’t be afraid to say “no” yourself.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JANUARY 28, 2016

I once witnessed a first-time entrepreneur pitch his very early stage startup, vision, and product with so much passion, precision, and authority to a well-recognized Global consumer goods brand that the CIO agreed to a POC (proof of concept) even before the entrepreneur finished his 30-minute pitch! I think you should read them.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Some parts of the book – special cocktail and food recipes, primers on the different types of whiskies (or whiskys) or how to appreciate drinking bourbon – aren’t quite as relevant to a business owner or entrepreneur (unless you love your alcohol, which I’m sure some of us are).

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 27, 2013

We’re very excited about the potential of this conference and believe it will become the premier event highlighting the South’s most promising young companies and entrepreneurs each year.” These companies have developed new technology and products across the enterprise, consumer and healthcare markets.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Entrepreneurs and business owners are always juggling a lot of things and when time comes for a holiday sometimes entrepreneurs like to take a break or sometimes they like to catch up on certain projects. With the Christmas holiday here, we decided to ask some entrepreneurs how they spend their holidays. #1- 1- Three ways.

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Up and Running

MAY 2, 2012

We’re going to keep this calendar up-to-date with workshops, conferences, and other dates important to small business owners and entrepreneurs around the world. If you have an event to submit, please send the details to marketing@bplans.com. Below is a small version of the calendar.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2012

I’m aboard Delta flight 1833 from Cincinnati (actually, Northern Kentucky for what it’s worth) to Los Angeles. I had a very enjoyable day in Cincinnati meeting many local entrepreneurs, angels and accelerators. I met with Dave Knox whom I had previously met when he worked at P&G in marketing. It’s Wednesday late afternoon.

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Up and Running

JULY 25, 2014

ESPN’s strategy demonstrates the importance of being able to adjust your business plan in real-time as you receive positive (or negative) feedback from your target market. Entrepreneurs may recognize a key lesson here: one highly talented person is rarely enough to help a business make it. Game 5 slipped out of their grasp.

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Up and Running

APRIL 11, 2016

Step 2: Market research and idea validation. How do you know you’ve picked a niche in the real estate market that actually has a target audience? These questions and many more like them can be answered in the initial market research phase. Do market research early. Do market research early.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 1, 2017

Choose a comforting or familiar name that conjures up pleasant memories so customers respond to your business on an emotional level,” Entrepreneur says. Acura” has no definition but suggests precision engineering, according to Entrepreneur. Make sure your naming extends beyond the local market. Avoid overused metaphors.

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Up and Running

JUNE 23, 2014

I’m only going to mention a few, but there are hundreds of famous entrepreneurs that got their start late in life. But, Sanders didn’t stop and eventually, went on to found and franchise ‘Kentucky Fried Chicken’. You are NEVER too old to start a business, least of all when you are still in your twenties. The common denominator?

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 11, 2014

It was written by a guy about my age down in Louisville, Kentucky. Well, it turned out the company was probably too early to the market--and while that gave them a lot of time to create the best technology, customer traction wasn''t happening nearly as fast as we were spending money on AWS.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

JUNE 14, 2010

Any start-up loans will be to the entrepreneur as a personal loan. But, with plummeting property values over the past three years, there ain't much water in that well for many younger entrepreneurs. Our book, being published by Entrepreneur Press, has the working title The Entrepreneur's Money Book. How did they do it?

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Campus Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Later down the article quotes outlaw bike gang specialist Tom Barker of Eastern Kentucky, “It’s not uncommon for leaders or members of motorcycle gangs to hold down seemingly legitimate lives,” says Barker, even if part of their responsibility is to oversee an illegal drug business.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Business mentors are as old as the concept of entrepreneurs themselves. From Oprah and Maya Angelou to Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg, famous mentorships have had a powerful impact on the lives of entrepreneurs. We asked entrepreneurs and business owners about the role of a mentor in their business and here are the responses. #1-

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Startup Company Lawyer

APRIL 22, 2009

Always looking for ways to better serve the entrepreneurial community, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is pleased to announce the release of the WSGR Term Sheet Generator , a publicly available online tool that allows entrepreneurs and investors to generate an initial draft of a term sheet for a preferred stock financing.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 26, 2017

“Innovation is widely regarded as the single most important ingredient in today’s economy,” according to entrepreneur Faisal Hoque at Fast Company. It does not create new markets or value markets, but develops existing ones with better value , allowing companies to compete against each other’s sustaining improvements.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

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A Crowded Space

AUGUST 4, 2011

” Or really interesting projects, like Kentucky Fried Chicken actually came to us and said, “Hey, we want to break the world record for the largest chicken potpie, so we need to bake a 45 foot chicken potpie in Central Park. So I moved on to an online advertising company briefly and headed up marketing and product.

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