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A common question I get all the time: what is the biggest mistake young entrepreneurs are making? They’re building businesses that only work during the best-case market scenarios. Let...
I have grown significantly on the matter of entrepreneurial mindset, improved my networking and people skills, connected with so many inspiring individuals and their unique stories, failed a lot,...
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Don’t You Want To Know The Reasons Behind Why The Investors Are Not Interested In Your Startup?
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I have grown significantly on the matter of entrepreneurial mindset, improved my networking and people skills, connected with so many inspiring individuals and their unique stories, failed a lot,...
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You Might be an Entrepreneur if … 7 unexpected signs that you’re meant for the startup life
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Entrepreneurship
Don’t You Want To Know The Reasons Behind Why The Investors Are Not Interested In Your Startup?
I will not invest in your startup! Perhaps I have lost the count now of how many times I have heard this. I have tried and tried and tried...
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Some business tenets tend to come and go. A company I worked for started a number of “game-changing” transformational programs only to quickly airbrush them out of our corporate...
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Meeting an investor often gives out a feeler of a horror flick. Not that we want to put the good Samaritan in the shoes of a vampire, but this...
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A common question I get all the time: what is the biggest mistake young entrepreneurs are making? They’re building businesses that only work during the best-case market scenarios. Let...
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So, you have come up with a rocking idea that is going to change the world. How exciting!! You are all set to conquer the world well, there is...
Entrepreneurship
For the confused and curious, 10 things to ponder over while quitting job to start business!
We love to craft our own ideas in order to build a niche, and that requires making some hard decisions. Starting a business is more than projecting numbers and...