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Turning the Unemployed Into Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

Most spend their days applying for jobs, not just because they need the opportunity to work and earn a living, but also because job searching is a prerequisite for collecting unemployment compensation. Get a Job - or Start a Business? Big Government - or Small Business? Most unemployed Americans have only a few options.

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The Complete Guide to SBA Loans

Up and Running

Small Business Administration was created in 1953 to help Americans start, build and grow their businesses. territory including the United States, Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S. Broadly speaking they are divided into 4 main categories: General Small Business Loans (7a) . What is an SBA Loan?

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Clusters, Class, Culture and Unfair Advantages

Steve Blank

In my neighborhood, successful entrepreneurship meant small businesses entrepreneurs. Before my parents divorced they had owned a small grocery store. No one I knew had ever started a company (other than a small business). I wouldn’t eat in a real restaurant until I went to college.

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Clusters, Class, Culture and Unfair Advantages

Steve Blank

In my neighborhood, successful entrepreneurship meant small businesses entrepreneurs. Before my parents divorced they had owned a small grocery store. No one I knew had ever started a company (other than a small business). I wouldn’t eat in a real restaurant until I went to college.

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Out of the Crisis #9, the founders of Frontline Foods on the moral imperative to support frontline workers at scale

Startup Lessons Learned

And when Frank brought that up, I was like, oh, I hadn't even thought of this, but this would be great business for the restaurants that are decimated right now. I looked up where UCSF was and searched around for one of the restaurants we would know. So they came onto a lot of people's radars around the hurricane in Puerto Rico.