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The Power of Entrepreneurial Community

Entrepreneurs' Organization

One culture. It is the heart of my culture. This spirit is also not unique to my culture. It is in other cultures too. This sense of community is at the heart of all our cultures and the root of our humanity. We are borderless. We are all one community. Bayanihan. In Kenya, it is called Harambee.

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Hiring Pain Points Small Businesses Encounter and How to Resolve Them

Smart Hustle Magazine

make sure you have a strong company culture for them to enter into. . What we want to do is we want to build a team around the culture. Kedma is an innovation and entrepreneurship thought leader, award-winning champion of small business, and business advisor for independent inventors. All you need to do now is .

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4 Startup Myths That Hold Innovation Back (and How to Overcome Them)

StartupNation

This growth, rapid brand recognition, and the quality of the products caught the eye of The Walt Disney Company, which acquired the business for an undisclosed amount the following year in 2001. While this is just one example, there are countless other mom (and dad!) entrepreneurs who bust this myth.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Edtech VC survey, 5 founder mistakes, fintech liquidity, more

TechCrunch

In my experience, many founders have a hard time delegating, which can quickly create cultural and operational problems. On January 15, 2001, then-college student Dries Buytaert released Drupal 1.0.0, As someone who’s worked closely with founders at several startups, each of the points he raised resonated deeply with me.

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How a female entrepreneur gained Traction in a male-dominated industry

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Tiera’s unique story spans a full career in the Air Force to the corporate world to entrepreneurship. In 2001, while serving in the Hawaii Air National Guard, I started working for ABM Onsite Services as the Administrative Assistant. You received multiple awards for business growth and culture.

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What was Nike like as a startup?

Unvalidated Learnings

Such is the company’s current scale and standing in popular culture that it’s hard to imagine it once was nothing more than a scrappy upstart with chronic cash shortages. No matter how hard it is today, it was much harder before By definition, entrepreneurship has and always will be one of the most difficult human endeavours.

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Austin’s Will Hurley on the city’s incredible tech rise

TechCrunch

Really, it’s finally fulfilled the vision we’ve all had of it becoming a leading city around innovation, tech, and culture,” Whurley said. In 2001, for six months, Whurley left Austin to follow a girl to Las Vegas and to break into casinos as a hired hacker. People need to stop romanticizing entrepreneurship, according to Whurley.