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Top 3 Startup Winner: Digs

The Startup Magazine

FUND is a national connector of entrepreneurs, VCs, angel investors, and industry experts with a focus on deal flow and making connections. My co-founder (Chad Johnson) and I are both architecture graduates, so housing has always been a passion of ours. Team Info: Co-Founder: Pat McLoughlin. Thank you Digs.

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14 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Biggest Accomplishment in 2016

Hearpreneur

In the last few days of 2016, we took some time to ask a few entrepreneurs and business what their biggest business accomplishments were. #1 I landed my first international travel consulting gig with Blue Marble Dreams and traveled to Haiti to open an ice cream shop. 9 – Became an Entrepreneur. Image Credit: Jenny Dorsey.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 9: Jered Lawson and Chase Adam

Steve Blank

Passion powers entrepreneurs; tenacity pulls them through, and entrepreneurship can do good for the world explained todays guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on Sirius XM Channel 111. Chase Adam , founder of Watsi , is on a mission to provide healthcare for every person in the world. Jered Lawson. Chase Adam.

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Austin’s opportunity to change America’s entrepreneurial narrative

Austin Startup

In 1991, ten-year-old Jerry and his family escaped civil war in Haiti and resettled in America as refugees. Like any entrepreneur, Jerry wanted to solve it. First, we need to intentionally recruit a different and broader pipeline of founders. As a black guy, in central Virginia, solving poor people’s problems, I was 0 for 3!”

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5 questions for New Story after a month in Y Combinator

Jeff Hilimire

I can’t tell you how excited I was when Brett Hagler , CEO and co-founder of New Story (funding life-changing houses for homeless families), told me that they were accepted into Y Combinator (YC). During the first week, the founders of Airbnb came to speak, and Brian (their CEO) said, “be shameless about asking for help.”

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50+ Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

businessname #business #entrepreneur #startup #name #compilation #instagram #ceoblognation #blog #newblog #blogpost #livetoday. After the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, I went to Haiti as part of a relief team. Having a brand behind a strong title can make all the difference in the world. This post will be live later today.

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