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9 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Business They are Starting Next Year

Hearpreneur

We asked entrepreneurs and business owners the businesses they’re starting in 2020 and here are the responses. #1- I’ve been flipping homes in Louisville for the past four years now and nothing has made me really inspired by the thought of scaling my operations. 1- A new app idea. Photo Credit: Lori Cheek.

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A Good Answer in a Business Plan Contest

Up and Running

Scene: two MBA entrepreneurs in an almost-empty room, pitching to five judges in an MBA-level business plan contest. And, to the judges’ collective surprise, in this case, the entrepreneurs are able to say yes, they do know of some, they mention the names, and add that their margins are taken from those and companies like them.

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Separating Regional Economic Development Fact From Fiction

Feld Thoughts

Today I read the following headline in the Boulder Daily Camera: “ Phillips 66 to sell 432-acre campus in Louisville. Bill Ritter on Wednesday revealed that ConocoPhillips has purchased the former StorageTek campus in Louisville.” Phillips 66 pulls the plug on Louisville energy campus. Related articles.

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Meet My Hackstar – Cole Morrison

Feld Thoughts

Cole is a 25 year old entrepreneur, designer, and developer who’s design services company, ijitsu Design , was recently acquired by TundraLogic, Inc. for which he now serves as the Chief Marketing Officer. He is also working on a new RPG called Project Recreate.

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Congrats to Backupify! A Great Exit Story for the First Company I Ever Backed

This is going to be BIG.

It was written by a guy about my age down in Louisville, Kentucky. We stayed in touch and I got to know a bunch of the Louisville startup and creative crew, like Todd Earwood, Matt Winn, and Ashley Cecil. I started reading a great blog called Business Pundit in 2004.

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Lean Startup Implementation Lessons

Startup Lessons Learned

The Lean Startup Conference was founded four years ago to bring together real entrepreneurs who have applied Lean Startup techniques and have useful advice to share with each other. Last year we heard a variety of strategies for getting customer feedback, beginning with Tendai Charasika of Greater Louisville, Inc.

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Resetting My Priorities

Feld Thoughts

After a week at home I hit the road again around the release of Startup Communities and spent almost all of October on the road, reaching Boise, Oklahoma City, Chicago, Des Moines, San Francisco, Seattle, Detroit, Boston, Montreal, Toronto, Lexington, and Louisville. I get to work with incredible companies and entrepreneurs every day.