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How Small Business Development Centers (SBDCs) Can Help Your Business

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They also offer resources for market research and consulting on how to efficiently scale operations as your business grows. SBDC advisors tend to be serial entrepreneurs—people who have experience starting their own businesses and really want to help other founders. Our founder, Tim Berry, attended the very first one.

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15 Famous Companies That Started As Something Much Different

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Simply put, smart businesses tend to follow the money, and sometimes that means growing into a business the founders hadn’t ever imagined. The last of the textile operations were shut down in 1985. But in those days, as the Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company, the only thing they were sending was telegrams.

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Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools

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PaidContent.org Founder Launches Travel Media and Data Company. Operations. Mississippi. Mississippi. MOST READ on FOLIO: F+W Acquires Aspire Media. Merging Brands with Technology. Defining Mobile Opportunities and Strategies. Reports: Major Layoffs at Spin. FOLIO: Alerts & Newsletters. FOLIO: Alert News Updates.

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How to Fund a Startup

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I think it would help founders to understand funding better—notjust the mechanics of it, but what investors are thinking. And if trouble withinvestors is one of the biggest threats to a startup, managing themis one of the most important skills founders need to learn. Few startups get it quite right. Many are underfunded.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., And companies that didnt survive might have closed their doors for reasons other than failure, for example, getting acquired or the founders moving on to new projects. Mississippi. Mississippi. Breaking Up (With a Co-Founder) Is Hard to Do. New Jersey.

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Out of the Crisis #9, the founders of Frontline Foods on the moral imperative to support frontline workers at scale

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The founders of Frontline Foods are three of these people. You can see a list of every city where they operate and make directed donations on their site.)Thanks And so we get to piggyback off of their 501-C3 status and they manage the actual financial operations. Ryan Sarver was a partner at venture capital firm Redpoint.