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The Founder’s Playbook: Winning Mindsets & Startup Strategies

American Entrepreneurship

Networking & Collaboration Building relationships, seeking mentorship, and leveraging partnerships for growth. Risk-Taking: He reinvested his entire PayPal earnings (~$180M) into Tesla and SpaceX, nearly going bankrupt in 2008. sustainable energy, interplanetary travel) and builds companies to solve them.

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Resilience in Entrepreneurship is the X Factor for Success

American Entrepreneurship

Having a support network can help you maintain perspective during tough times. Emotional resilience isn’t just for crisis moments—it’s sustained through daily rituals that strengthen your mindset. Reframing failure helps you detach your personal identity from outcomes that enables you to focus on progress over a desire for perfection.

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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. Layer in inflation, potential interest rate hikes, the threat of recession, and the risk of sustained trade wars, and it becomes clear why many business owners are exploring private debt. Still, this form of financing is no panacea.

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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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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

This is going to be BIG.

2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. Credit cards "just work" and peer to peer transactions just aren't big enough to bootstrap a network. (PS.there are various companies in this article I have or have had business involvements with.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! Morning in VC.

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Hockey Stick Growth Explained

Feedough

As the business is scaling up too quickly, some startups can’t sustain the strong growth and eventually crash. Once the startup is able to prove its potential and sustain this exponential growth during the growth-inflexion phase, its growth continues to accelerate at a fast pace, attracting more customers to try the offering.