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The Three Ways That the Entrepreneurial Spirit is Changing How Science is Done

Dmitri Petrov & Denis Kourakin, NGX Bio Startup entrepreneurs and scientists are generally painted with very different brushes in popular culture, and in turn, in people’s imaginations. While startup entrepreneurs are generally depicted as young, forward thinking, movers and shakers playing ping pong and using macbooks in hammocks in open plan Silicon Valley palaces, scientists are generally […]

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Keep Your Eye on the Horizon: Four Considerations for Healthcare Startups

Entrepreneurship, Small Business

Hubert Zajicek, CEO, Health Wildcatters According to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), there are approximately 27 million working-age Americans currently starting or running new businesses. That means 14 percent of the population consider themselves entrepreneurs! Many startups in the U.S. have become highly successful in their respective marketplaces over the past few years. Just think – we

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From A Crazy Idea To A Million Dollar Business In 60 Countries

Entrepreneurship, Small Business

Michael Stausholm, Founder & CEO, Sprout It all started with an idea from a group of students at MIT in Boston back in 2012. When they got the challenge of developing ”the sustainable office article of the future”, they came up with the idea of a plantable pencil with a capsule of seeds in the

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How a Marine Mentality Can Help Build a Successful Business in Any Industry

Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management, Small Business

Will Post, Founder & CEO, Hound & Gatos Pet Foods According to the Small Business Administration, over 90 percent of all businesses are considered small, which is having less than 500 employees. While there is a lot of information readily available to explain to would-be entrepreneurs about how to go through the steps to open one of these

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Three Strategies Every Entrepreneur Needs To Succeed In The U.S.

Entrepreneurship

Kris Finstad, CEO & Founder, ContentChecked According to a report from National Venture Capital Association, in 2015 the venture capital ecosystem distributed $58.8 billion to startups across the U.S., an increase from $48.3 billion in 2014 and a clear indicator of the continued growth of the entrepreneurial market. However, penetrating the U.S. market is a

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4 Steps to Sell Anything to Anyone

Entrepreneurship, Sales

Carmit Yadin, Author, “How to BOOM B2B Sales” You have an idea. You start a company. You develop, refine and produce your solution or product. You stand back and take rightful pride in your creation. Now what? You have to sell it! For many entrepreneurs sales can seem like a daunting obstacle in their path

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Remember to have fun each day at work

Entrepreneurship

Saurabh Saxena, CEO & Founder, Holachef.com Being an entrepreneur is a continuous learning process. Every day, I feel more enlightened than before. Startup life not only grooms you into being a seasoned businessperson, it also tests and hones your people-management skills which help in personal life too. The most important aspect to consider for

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Making it in Silicon Valley as a Foreign Entrepreneur

Entrepreneurship

Pierre-Jean Cobut, Co-founder, Echo Labs As a foreign-born entrepreneur who set up his company in the US, the one thing I know for sure is that there is no easy way to setup a company for a foreign founder, although having one or more American co-founders can ease the process. The US currently does not

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The American Entrepreneurial Spirit

Entrepreneurship

W. Gary Sitton, Author, Fire Up Your Startup and Keep it Up In 2004, I taught a graduate class in the School of Engineering titled “Technical Startups”. There were 17 enrolled students, six of whom were international students. In 2014, I taught the same class with 25 students, twelve of whom were international. Currently in my

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5 Business Truths I Wish Someone Told Me 5 Years Ago

Entrepreneurship, Management, Small Business

William Vanderbloemen, President/CEO, Vanderbloemen Search Group In March of 2010, I left my job, my wife and I put our life savings on the table, and we started a business. We were committed to building it from scratch – debt-free and with no venture capital. Our new business – a search firm serving churches –

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