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6 Stories of Successful New Entrepreneurs to Inspire Your Business

Up and Running

An engineering services firm, TRISTAR is the first woman and minority-owned firm based in Indiana to offer the Department of Defense (DoD) technical support services. In 1998, a few years after launching, the company got a $200,000 SBA-guaranteed loan. TRISTAR — Engineering its own success.

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Hazards of Hiring

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In 1998, SourceGear was looking to hire a full-time person in technical support. Ive observed a pattern over the years, and of the bad hiring decisions weve made, many of them happened when the decision was made entirely without a womans voice. Fortunately, my approach has worked well in ways that I could not have anticipated.

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