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The Accomplishments of Entrepreneur, Justin Halladay

The Startup Magazine

As President and Founder of this organization, Halladay and his team make a line of Bible-inspired clothing and sell it locally and online to assist in funding the ministry. He worked for corporations in Pennsylvania, Colorado, New York, and his native state of New Jersey, among other places.

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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

Both Sides of the Table

Meredith Perry came up with the idea for uBeam while still in college at University of Pennsylvania and like many great inventors won her school’s business plan competition. She had raised seed funds from a who’s who list of investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, Marissa Mayer, Mark Cuban, Troy Carter and so on.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Sapient

Austin Startup

Sapient’s Sam Parks and Martin Koch have developed a smart outlet system for commercial deployment The Forrest Four-Cast: January 28, 2020 If Sam Parks , CEO and co-founder of Sapient Industries , weren’t working for his startup, he’d be working as a scientist, using his background in nanotechnology as an applied physicist.

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Are You Losing Money by Staying Too Niche?

YoungUpstarts

If you were to open an import auto dealership in rural Pennsylvania, for example, the number of potential customers would be rather limited. Its founders had an idea to offer a mail-order coffee product. To be successful, you’d need to expand your product offerings to include a larger segment of the market.

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Want to Know How First Round Capital was Started?

Both Sides of the Table

They have totally changed the way you run a VC firm, investing heavily in systems & events for their founders that are pushing the boundaries of the way our industry works. He then went on to teach Computer Science at Cornell, Caltech, and University of Pennsylvania. I'm a huge fan of this innovation. and Half.com.

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Entrepreneurs And Small Businesses Thrive With These 5 Tech Tools

YoungUpstarts

by Eyal Shinar, CEO & Founder of Fundbox. Prior to his current position as CEO and Founder of Fundbox, he served as a Vice President at Battery Ventures where he led many projects and investments in the areas of finance, machine learning, SMBs and SaaS. Everything big must first be small.

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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

Currently this structure is available in Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington D.C., with many more states pending legislation. What about the rest of us?