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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

After doing some market research, I realized that there was a market for the handcrafted greeting cards that I make, and in September 2019, MsCraftprincess Designs was formed. But I also leaned that is actually ok. Our tagline is, Giving a handcrafted greeting card is like giving a hug! We like to say that we create paper hugs.

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Stock Photos vs. Real Photos: Does It Matter?

ConversionXL

The most notorious faux pas was in 2004, when competitors Dell and Gateway used photos from the same photo shoot in their “Back to School” promotional material. million in losses to online scams in 2019, and many scam sites lean heavily on low-priced stock photography. But did it stop there?

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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten

Of course, one could rebut that by saying traditional VC is all about investing in outliers: Seth Levine analyzed data from Correlation Ventures (21,000 financings from 2004-2013) and writes that “a full 65% of financings fail to return 1x capital. Third, the data above reflects companies which typically took a decade to build. ” .