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Can You Build a Business with $100 or Less? Yes … and Here’s How

StartupNation

Event planning Dropshipping Handmade crafts selling Pet sitting Social media management Repair service Blogging/vlogging Alternatively, consider more revolutionary business ideas like AI automation consulting or podcast-editing services. Back then, in 2015, women entrepreneurs were a rarity in Kashmir. Lessons Learned: Lesson #1.

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One woman’s path to financial empowerment leads the way

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

At the age of 21, with a nudge from my mentor, I started teaching myself how to invest in the local stock market and, as I was learning, shared my knowledge with others through a blog. At the beginning of 2015, I started a “figure-it-out fund” and used a percentage of Accessories & Essentials’ sales over the next few months to finance it.

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Some Perspective on Twitter vs. Meerkat

Both Sides of the Table

Mark Suster (@msuster) March 14, 2015. I’m rooting for Meerkat to succeed as an independent network. The group of people I might communicate with in a network like this might be different than the people with whom I interact on Twitter and in general I like to see new products and new companies emerge. Exciting time.

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The Four Cities Every Startup Should Invest in Visiting

Entrepreneurs' Organization

If selected, you’ll have the chance to not only recruit, but also network with the other companies at the event. Incubators such as the one Zappos’ CEO Tony Hsieh started a few years ago are also a great way to jump-start your innovative ideas, receive mentoring, network, etc.

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The Breakout Tech Company Of 2018

Haystack

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase.

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Nigerian founders-turn-investors are now running syndicate funds

TechCrunch

The Future Africa Fund kicked off in 2015 when Iyinoluwa Aboyeji and Nadayar Enegesi , co-founders of US-based and African-focused talent company Andela, wrote checks to African startups as angel investors. During the onset of the pandemic, Aboyeji, via his blog post , said Future Africa Fund was looking to raise institutional investment.

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Maine’s Coworking Development Fund

EntreWorks Consulting

It’s also creating a statewide network so that space managers and developers can learn from one another and share ideas. This program has existed on the books since 2015, but was finally funded by Maine’s new governor, Janet Mills. EntreWorks Blog. Maine’s Coworking Development Fund.