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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Motivation to Grow Their Business

Hearpreneur

In the past year alone we’ve had several partners expand their cleaning centers, hire new staff, and invest in their machinery thanks to the revenue from ihateironing. But it's also deeply rooted in my desire to create opportunities, not just for myself but for my team and the partners we serve. Thanks to Mona Kirstein, Ph.D.,

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments In 2021

Hearpreneur

We have won vacations with the other companies we partner with. My team dedicated their time to creating a sense of community. Our membership network of thousands of small business owners and entrepreneurs across hundreds of local chapters nationwide feel like they belong to an entire community now. 12- Launching a new company.

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What I Read On Spring Break

Feld Thoughts

Amy and I just spent a week off the grid in Hawaii with my partner Ryan, his wife Katherine, and their son. Last year on spring break we cancelled a trip to Hawaii (with the McIntyres) because of the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster in Japan. Better than book #1 – more fun, better characters, faster pace.

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If, Why, and How Founders Should Hire a “Professional” CEO

Reid Hoffman

My partners at Greylock and I have invested in a number of young founding CEOs who match this pattern and are doing a fantastic job leading their companies through hypergrowth, such as Brian Chesky of AirBnB and Drew Houston of Dropbox. Couldn’t we just hire a COO and have you stay as CEO?”. James and Jeff had worked together at Yahoo!,

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

My business partner – Anton and I started Fantastic Services as a solution to a problem. My partner and I originally started a business for all the classic “selfish” reasons – we wanted to follow our own path, we wanted the flexibility to work from anywhere, we wanted to remove the cap on our potential income.

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15 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

We settled on SocialsFirm to not only represent the good that our clients allow us to achieve in our community but to embody the very nature of social media. When my partners and I decided to start a law firm focusing on trademark services, we decided to practice what we preach to our clients about choosing a new business name.

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Multiculturalism: Lorie Valle-Yanez on driving diversity initiatives into business benefits

Transformify

‘’Diversity Hiring’’ series features world diversity and inclusion leaders and their thoughts on diversity recruitment, cultural diversity and equality. Lorie, you were raised in Hawaii where inclusion and belonging are a way of life. What does diversity hiring mean to you? in Organizational Behavior.

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