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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Airbnb founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia had difficulty securing funding, so they launched a mini project to build some funds and catch investors' attention. Using this capital , the founders launched and enjoyed exponential growth in their first year, with 10K users and thousands of listings. Photo Credit: Rob Greene.

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SXSW Startups: Boost Biomes

Austin Startup

Boost Biomes CEO and co-founder Jamie Bacher The Forrest Four-Cast: March 5, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. Jamie Bacher , CEO and co-founder, answered some questions about the San Francisco-based company.

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Tips for Making Money in Educational Consulting – From a Profit First Professional

Mike Michalowicz

Ross Loveland, of Grow Green Profit Advisors, is a Profit First Professional and recently shared an article he worked on about making money as an educational consultant. MIKE ANDERSON, founder of Leading Great Learning, leadinggreatlearning.com. DR. KEVIN LEICHTMAN, co-founder of TLC Education, tlceducate.com.

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SXSW Startups: UbiGro

Austin Startup

UbiQD Founder and CEO Hunter McDaniel, PhD, explained more about how UbiGro works. We can make green, yellow, orange, red, and everything in between, simply by changing the size of these particles. From security inks to sunlight harvesting with windows, your product range is wide. What is your competitive advantage?

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Photo Credit: Adam Greene. My co-founder and I came up with the idea for Cuddle Clones in an entrepreneurial-focused MBA program. Thanks to Adam Greene, Cuddle Clones ! #3- So we began developing a serum using wild-harvested botanicals from right here in Wyoming's Teton Mountains. So Bondic was born!

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My Favorite Entrepreneur Story in a Long Time

Both Sides of the Table

It was about the founder of Sriracha sauce, David Tran, displaced from Vietnam when the North’s communists took power. So I started noticing hot sauces more and the more I looked the more I noticed this funny rooster bottle with a strange sounding name I couldn’t pronounce and that familiar green cap. And the green caps.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: AVA Byte

Austin Startup

Valerie Song , CEO & Founder of AVA Technologies Inc. unlocks the green thumb in anyone and empowers users to produce food at home with compostable plant pods that grow fresh herbs and clean greens year-round with just a push of a button. Valerie Song , CEO & Founder of AVA Technologies Inc., AVA Technologies Inc.

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