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Resilience in Entrepreneurship is the X Factor for Success

American Entrepreneurship

This is because founders can better manage pressure, adapt quickly, persevere and lead their teams through crises to achieve growth. Common Setbacks Entrepreneurs Face Every founder, no matter how seasoned, faces adversity. Resilient founders don’t treat failure as the end. This is entrepreneurial resilience!

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The Founder’s Playbook: Winning Mindsets & Startup Strategies

American Entrepreneurship

Many startups are founded with great ideas but fail because the founder lacks the adaptability, problem-solving ability, or grit to push through setbacks. This mindset is not just for business owners; it’s valuable for startup founders, intrapreneurs (employees who innovate within companies), freelancers, and even students.

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Private Debt Financing for Small Business: Fast Capital, Real Costs

StartupNation

Since the 2008 financial crash, banks have been steadily retreating from small business lending. Founders keep control and avoid giving up a stake in their business. Private debt is often viewed as the nimble entrepreneur’s shortcut to capital. No Equity Sacrifice Private debt does not dilute ownership.

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From Lawyer to Local News Innovator: Michael Shapiro’s Journey to Building TAPinto

Jason Malki

He is the Founder and CEO of TAPinto , a network of more than 95 franchised online local news and digital marketing platforms in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Florida. In 2008, while living in New Jersey and practicing law in New York City, I learned that my one-year-old son needed open-heart surgery.

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Instead of sticking a fork in the venture market, realize. there is no fork

This is going to be BIG.

Did I mention it only took the founder a month? The last closed market we had was from about September 2008 until June 2009--10 months. In 2008, people weren't sure if we were heading into a complete financial collapse. Not a bad close rate, I'd say--and a pretty great pay day. This is a relationship game.

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Announcing the 17 New Startups in Dreamit Ventures’ SecureTech, HealthTech, and UrbanTech Programs

Dream It

Since 2008, Dreamit has worked with over 320 companies. We look for founders who have achieved early product-market fit but still need help growing their pipelines more quickly, closing enterprise sales and increasing revenue from growth with existing customers,” stated Dreamit Managing Partner Steve Barsh. “We

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Things Will Be Different

This is going to be BIG.

The Financial Crisis of 2008 sure seemed bad in the moment as well. As I write this, Congress is working hard to undo the mistakes of the 2008 bailout and the sense that corporations got off easy and the little guy was never made whole. Scrutiny is coming in a big way. How we run businesses will be different, too.