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13 Of The Biggest Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make (That May Not Seem Like Mistakes At All)

YoungUpstarts

You can pour your heart and soul (and life savings) into a venture, do all your due diligence, toil 80- and 90-hour weeks, and just when you’re on the verge of a breakthrough, a dark horse competitor sweeps in and decimates your market share. If you lose a customer due to price or other circumstances beyond your control, then fine.

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Always Right: Five Risks You Must Take With Your Customers

YoungUpstarts

If you lose a customer due to price or other circumstances beyond your control, then fine. Before technology made it possible for people to connect with each other anytime and anywhere, customer-business interaction was limited to phone calls and in-person visits. Today, though, technology has changed that model.

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How Modern Business Tools Help Law Firms

The Startup Magazine

Thus, people may not even have to come to see their attorney every time that they need to review some paperwork. According to a firm practicing criminal law in Tampa, no business can operate without some type of accounting software. An Accounting Platform.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Dedicated To Steve Jobs, Reinforcing Mission To Restructure Capitalism

ReadWriteStart

She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dan Stewart, from Tampa/St. Ajit Narayanan, from Chennai, India, presented Invention Labs , a speech technology for helping children with disabilities, like autism, communicate and learn. Happy Grasshopper.

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5 Companies That Could Become The Next Apple

YoungUpstarts

The Skyworks Solutions growth is largely due to its key involvement in IoT, payments on mobile devices, and Internet connectivity. GoPro’s High Tech Wearable Cameras. Apple is one of the highest earning companies in the tech industry.

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22 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments in 2020

Hearpreneur

2020 may have been a bad year for especially due to COVID-19 pandemic while to others, it was a great year. Seeing this extra time as an opportunity allowed me to teach my 18-year-old son (who was home from college due to COVID closure) how to flip his first condo. The end of every year is the opportunity reflect on a 365-day journey.

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Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control

David Teten

I asked Michael Hoffman, Partner and General Counsel of Feenix, how he compared his firm with tech-enabled Merchant Cash Advance companies, e.g., Clearbanc , C2FO , Shopify Capital , etc. At maturity, which is typically 3 to 5 years, any unpaid amount of the cap is due. He said, . “[W]e All term sheets are a negotiation. Social Impact.

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