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How This Entrepreneur Raised $28,000 Using Airbnb to Fund Her Startup

Both Sides of the Table

She actually IS the prototypical entrepreneur. But Tracy did what entrepreneurs do. Sam is the managing director of Launchpad LA and we were about to pick our 2012 class of entrepreneurs. In the first 5 minutes you’ll realize that she’s a classic entrepreneur. She focused on her customer.

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9 Innovative Startups To Watch For in 2024

Tech.Co

While the market isn't short of spritely, innovative entrepreneurs, harsh economic headwinds combined with a pullback in investor spending have made it harder than ever for budding businesses to break through. What started as a weekend project in 2012 is now a global marketplace that attracted 55.2 Organic milk formula product Bobbie.

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An Entrepreneur Platform To Put You Above the Crowd

Startup Professionals Musings

According to the most recent study by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, there were approximately 514,000 new businesses created per month in the US in 2012. So what’s an entrepreneur to do to get his new business noticed these days? Make your customers your platform. Michael Hyatt entrepreneur startup platform business'

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10 Top Reasons For First-time Entrepreneur Failure

Startup Professionals Musings

Based on my experience as a mentor and an entrepreneur, if you fail on your first startup, you are about average. Every young entrepreneur knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Of course, a real entrepreneur always takes a failure as a milestone on the road to success. How can you improve your odds?

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Top 5 TechCrunch Disrupt 2012 StartUps that will Save You Time & Money

Tech Zulu Event

Even though Lyft nor Sidecar presented at TechCrunch Disrupt 2012 they need to be mentioned as they were a huge time saver both getting from after party to after party and also to get to the airport. If a business isn’t using video to attract new customers they are leaving money on the table. .

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Entrepreneurshit. The Blog Post on What It’s Really Like.

Both Sides of the Table

It’s what life was like as an entrepreneur. I’ve been on the road much of 2012 and part of 2011. I plan to write about it early next year when we’re all through. But this is nothing like the stress of being an entrepreneur. What’s it really like being an entrepreneur? And so it goes again.

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Restarting – an Entrepreneur’s Journey

Eric Greenspan

After my latest company collapsed in June of 2012, I went into a bit of a depression. This company I started with my own money and in my third bedroom, had grown and served its customers and employees well for over 11 years. Today, as I write this, I’m working on several deals in the world of coffee and other food products.

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