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25 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Love About Being An Entrepreneur

Hearpreneur

Business owners and founders work long hours, wear several hats, and have high expectations for their performances. For Greenback, this means working remotely, cutting back on meetings, and building strong systems that reduce the need for management oversight. Photo credit: Jenna Green. Thanks to Jenna Green, Moscow Muled ! #9-

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How to Be an Entrepreneur in 2024: 15 Tactics Revealed

Duct Tape Marketing

Paul is also a senior lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the MIT Sloan School of Management and the co-founder of Oceanworks. And that might be in a startup, it might be as a founder of a startup, it might be as an early employee, as a startup. Does it match what the other co-founders wrote down?

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Love About Being An Entrepreneur

Hearpreneur

As a CEO and founder, I work with employees, contract individuals, and other business owners who are genuinely stellar, and I love being part of the small business dream. I'm not dependent on a manager to see my worth, I'm not beholden to a company and their promotion schedule, there are no politics, no bureaucracy.

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Smooth-Stone Changes Name to Calxeda; Adds Hires

Austin Startup

Calxeda is on track with its business and ARM-based product development plans, moving toward providing first samples of its industry-changing technologies in 2011. The new name, Calxeda , pronounced “Cal-zeh-dah,” is a derivative of the Latin for “Smooth-Stone.”

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Three Customer Discovery Tips For Building An Innovative Company

YoungUpstarts

by Joanna Malaczynski, founder of DESi. Before you do anything else, you need to take time to understand the needs and expectations of your customers on an ongoing basis as you develop your product and business. Pete Girard, Co-Founder of Toxnot, can attest to the importance of this.

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Why I left Wall Street to figure it out.

Austin Startup

The startup was launching its product there, and as part of the promotion plan, we were to go into bars in the evenings and sign people up to use their service. The manager of the promotion knew me from having worked on another promotion at the previous year’s SXSW festival for State Farm, and she liked my work. How did I get the gig?

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

So what does CTO mean, besides just "technical founder who really cant manage anyone?" I always assumed I wouldnt manage anybody. Being a manager didnt sound fun - deep down, who really wants to be held accountable for other peoples actions? So I wound up learning the discipline of managing other people.

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