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The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post)

Startup Lessons Learned

Take the example of Indianas Passageways. Luckily for the rest of us, he was able to find his path to a green card, and now employs 24 Americans in West Lafayette, Indiana. Take the example of Indianas Passageways. Many of these companies are started by entrepreneurs, and are now household names: Google, Yahoo, eBay and Intel.

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A Conversation with 2020 Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang

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So, when I was researching my book, I looked into what actually happened to the manufacturing workers in Michigan, Indiana and in the South. Any of those changes would require a wholesale revolution in the way we distribute and measure value and work. Almost half of them left the workforce and never worked again.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

My business partner, Adam Hale, and I were both in Fort Wayne, Indiana when the company was founded. Summit CPA is now a company with over $5M in annual revenue and our team is fully distributed throughout the United States. It’s code and portal combined, and it just took someone close to us to. understand what we were going for.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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What Are The Hallmarks of a Successful Nonprofit?

Board Effect

Patrick Rooney, a professor of economics and philanthropic studies at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at Indiana University, told the Chronicle, “Uncertainty is the enemy of investment in the capitalistic sector, but it’s also the enemy of investment in the philanthropic sector.”

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How to Build a Startup Team

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Make sure someone is thinking about overarching plans around PR, marketing and sales and spends time crafting the right messages, understanding audiences and figuring out distribution channels. Tech Cocktail Connecting, educating and amplifying the startup technology community and having fun doing it since 2006.

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A Silicon Valley Take on ABC’s Shark Tank

Lightspeed Venture Partners

The founder had not thought about his go to market approach, he had not researched competitors, and he had not done any market testing because it wasn’t convenient for him (wrong time of year – too hot in Indiana, so he didn’t bother). Two of the offers would see the founder cede control of the company to the investor.