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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

At Blurb, we’ve built an Internet platform for people to produce their own bookstore-quality books. In March of 2009 EliteEditing.com launched, and I would run back and forth to an Internet café five blocks from my office to manage work coming through and to take business calls. That’s it. That’s what we do.

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Americans are Better Off Without TikTok But Banning It is Bad Policy

This is going to be BIG.

If there’s one thing that everyone can agree on with regards to the future of TikTok in the United States, it is that congressional leaders have embarrassed themselves during the questioning of TikTok’s US CEO as the government considers whether or not to ban the popular app. Venezuela much?

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What Protecting Democracy and Saving Net Neutrality Have in Common

Austin Startup

Beyond just the average internet user taking a hit from a net neutrality ban, so will small businesses. As of now, the internet is the image on the left. With net neutrality repealed, the internet becomes the rightmost image. Beyond this, one could potentially pay to have an entire site blocked from a certain internet provider.

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