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43 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

Many franchise systems who receive support from our sister company, iFranchise Group — a premiere franchise consulting group — would ask where could they find services in PR, SEO, and website development. It was 1994: the Internet was still in its infancy and e-commerce was still a relatively new phenomenon.

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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

Bouncing around the country, went to school at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. I was not in a city center, and so things like internet and reliable vehicles, all of those things were hard to come by at first. And that is what guided me, like many others, to pursue school and early career elsewhere.

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