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Sam Haskell Shares Tips on Becoming an Entrepreneur

The Startup Magazine

I grew up in the small town of Amory, Mississippi (population 6,871). More importantly, I used that money to help my mother with our mortgage and put myself through college at the University of Mississippi. My family was by no means wealthy and it was expected that I spend most of my free time outside of school, working.

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28 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Entrepreneurs They Consider to be Successful

Hearpreneur

He's not afraid to fail, and that willingness to experiment has led to some of Microsoft's most successful products. I consider Steve Jobs to be a very successful entrepreneur, not only because of his readily apparent financial prosperity but more so because he used his know-how of how people think to market his products incredibly well.

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Cultivating A Culture Of Excellence From The Ground Up

YoungUpstarts

What’s missing for these employees, whether they’re sitting at a desk, standing on a production line or pulling weeds, is an understanding of how their ideas and investment of time, energy and skill matter. Polls show that less than one-third of employees in our country are enthusiastic about their work.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

Consumer Products. Paper & Forest Products. Chemicals & Allied Products. Fabricated Metal Products. Food and Kindred Products. Leather and Leather Products. Lumber and Wood Products. Paper & Allied Products. Rubber and Plastic Products. Textile Mill Products. Mississippi.

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What’s Old Is New Again

Feld Thoughts

” Mark Twain, ”Old Times on the Mississippi”. A year ago the present caught up with the future and their first product, Mezzanine , came to life. . “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. Atlantic Monthly, 1874. I was 14 once, then 21, and now 46.

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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.). And it was hammered home with Color —a startup without a product —raising $40 million, at a reputed $100 million valuation, from brand name VCs who should have known better.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2018 – wonder and awe

Steve Blank

All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. We wanted them to learn what it takes to get their product/service deployed to the field, not give yet another demo to a general. Team: TrackID.