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28 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Entrepreneurs They Consider to be Successful

Hearpreneur

His company has introduced a new way of shipping packages to the market – through InPost. I learned from her that even if finances are an issue, it's worth taking risks if you know your idea would change the market. He perfectly mastered personal branding, for which I sincerely admire him. Thanks to Matt Gillman, SMB Compass ! #6-

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The Next Bubble – Don’t Get Fooled Again

Steve Blank

Bubbles are not new; we have had them for hundreds of years (the Tulip Mania , South Sea Company , Mississippi Company , etc.). In the stealth phase , prescient angel investors and Venture Capitalists (VCs) start investing in an industry or market segment that others have not yet found.

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

Up and Running

They also offer resources for market research and consulting on how to efficiently scale operations as your business grows. Help growing and marketing your business. Mississippi State University helps process the data each year and organizes the results for the ASBDC. It’s a soup-to-nuts kind of a setup,” says Rowe.

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MSU Celebrates Student Entrepreneurship | Starkville Daily News

Campus Entrepreneurship

A few semesters ago, three students in my New Venture Creation class wanted to pursue the retail breathalyzer market. As CEO of Night and Day Vending, which distributes breathalyzer vending machines called IntoxBoxes, Stewart has entered several student entrepreneurship competitions in association with Mississippi State University.

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Why We Need Each Other

Duct Tape Marketing

In the summer of 2008 the entire Upper Mississippi River Basin flooded and inundated ten square miles of Cedar Rapids, including the entire downtown of this community of about 100,000. Why We Need Each Other is a post from: Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Surprised? You didn’t hear much about this event.

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15 Famous Companies That Started As Something Much Different

YoungUpstarts

They found a new market for this oil as Crisco, hydrogenated cottonseed oil designed to replace lard. The Gap was able to survive, however, as they used creative marketing to expand and build a new location the very next year, shifting their focus to jeans and apparel as we know them today. Western Union.

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Smartsynch raises $20 Million (Jackson, Mississippi)

Jason Ball

— Industry: Vertical Market Applications Software —?. It's not everyday that my hometown shows up in VentureSource, so I had to repost this: SMARTSYNCH (JACKSON, MS) RAISES $20 MILLION IN SERIES E?— Credit Suisse Customized Fund Investment led a $20 million round of?series series E financing for SmartSynch.