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6 Stories of Successful New Entrepreneurs to Inspire Your Business

Up and Running

An engineering services firm, TRISTAR is the first woman and minority-owned firm based in Indiana to offer the Department of Defense (DoD) technical support services. You might see your own business reflected in these case studies — which may provide insights into areas of growth for your business. TRISTAR — Engineering its own success.

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Innovation, like eggs, is cheaper in the country

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

In Internet access! Ironic that they are starting their roll out in Nappanee, Indiana — Amish country. They call it a “WISP” or Wireless Internet Service Providers. Eric is the President of the Indiana Development Corporation. Our government allocated part of the 2.9 And we’re slipping.

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Want $50k in Seed Funding? Apply now.

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And yes, each of the five selected will receive $50k, along with free Internet hosting services, accounting and legal services, and intensive hands-on mentoring for 12 weeks. Norse-Corp.com , a real-time Internet security vendor. Any firm can apply, but must agree to move to St. Today, downtown St.

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Making a Difference Through Your Career

Women Entrepreneurs Can

As long as the location has a stable internet connection, you could continue with your career while making a positive contribution to those in need. Indiana Lee is a professional writer who resides in the Pacific Northwest. Many people volunteer to build schools or teach English in Africa or Central America. About the Author.

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How to Build a Startup Team

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Tech Cocktail Connecting, educating and amplifying the startup technology community and having fun doing it since 2006.

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Startup Visa update

Startup Lessons Learned

He gave me the opportunity to answer questions about our proposal, and share the stories of immigrant entrepreneurs who are creating job all over America, including the Senators home state of Indiana. Facebook Fans Recent & Upcoming Events 2010 I am experimenting with using Plancast to track my 2010 event schedule.

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8 Ways to Help Your Tweets Go Viral

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Everyone wants to have that retweetable quality that spreads across the Internet in a flash. At Indiana University, Bloomington, researchers compared 120 million actual retweets with a random computer model and found very little difference in the way ideas propagated. So, how can you get your Tweets to go viral too? Randomness.

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