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

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Event Tickets Center → $100 Founded: 2005 Industry : Media and Entertainment Number of employees : 30+ For me, as the CEO and Founder of Event Tickets Center (ETC), the ticket-selling platform is more than just a business launched with $100. Back then, in 2015, women entrepreneurs were a rarity in Kashmir. It’s my passion.

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17 Inspiring Recoveries: How Entrepreneurs Bounced Back from Crises

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Danielle Dahl , Co-Founder, Resilient Stories Strategic Adjustments Overcome Economic Downturn In 2015, Brazil was in the midst of a severe economic downturn, and I had just launched my first successful company. What I learned is this: perseverance doesn’t mean pretending you’re fine. Decisions must be made quickly.

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Building a Family Empire: Staying Resilient, Learning to Pivot

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As co-founders of 100% Chiropractic , Vanessa and I had to figure out how to balance our roles as both business partners and life partners. Recognize Opportunities and Scale Thoughtfully When we made the decision to franchise 100% Chiropractic in 2015, it wasn’t done hastily. Stay focused, stay patient, and always keep learning.

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Kara Nortman Was Just Promoted to Co-Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures. Here’s What it All Means

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leadership, mentorship, competitiveness, communications, relationship-building?—?and and of course a relentless pursuit of helping founders succeed. So mostly we just had to listen to customer feedback from founders, VCs and LPs. But if you know Kara, you likely already know all of this. So why now?

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten VC

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten VC

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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What Future for Accelerators?

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There were a lot of requests for us to turn our mentorship program into a physical accelerator with a fund, office space and full-time staff. She joined Launchpad as a very non-traditional founder and defied every conventional expectation to build one of LA’s fastest growing companies. We have some announcements set for 2015.