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8 Founders Reveal The Growth Strategies Your Startup Should be Using

Starting any business is hard. Very hard. Staying in business is even harder. Most startups fail. The details of running a successful company can be overwhelming. But fortunately for new…

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How One Entrepreneur Got Featured on Forbes, Business Insider, Inc. and More

Startup publicity is hard, really hard. It takes a healthy mix of strategies and ideas to get your new business out there to the right audience. It’s not an exact…

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Peter Hudson, Shelfie Co-Founder, Shares His Startup Story, Lessons Learnt and More

Welcome to our founder lessons series. This week we have an exclusive interview with Peter Hudson, Co-founder and CEO of Shelfie, an app that lets you take a shelfie of your books and get…

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Andrew Hunter (Co-founder of Adzuna, a Search Engine for Job Ads) Reveals Secrets to Their Success

Welcome to our founder lessons series. This week we have an exclusive interview with Andrew Hunter, co-founder of Adzuna, a search engine for job ads. The company raised more than £1.5m in funding through the…

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6 min

Gabriel Weinberg (Founder of DuckDuckGo) Reveals How He Launched The Most Serious Competitor to Google

No one likes to be watched, tracked. Gabriel Weinberg launched DuckDuckGo to help you search for what you need online without being tracked. Gabriel founded the company in 2008 to offer an alternative…

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5 min

How Eric Wall (An Attorney) Launched Equivity (Virtual Assistant Service)

Welcome to our founder lessons series. This week we have an exclusive interview with Eric Wall, founder at Equivity, a San Francisco-based virtual assistant service company. Equivity provides dedicated virtual assistant services to individuals,…

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6 min

How One Entrepreneur Made His First $1,000,000

Here is how Michael Shreeve made his first million dollars. He originally shared this on Medium. It took me 15 months to make my first $1,000,000. Actually, scratch that. It took…

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How to Raise Your First $100,000 (for First Time Startup Founders)

Here is Brain York’s (CEO of @bliss_ai and investor via Bassin Ventures) explanation of how to raise your first $100k when you’ve never raised money before. He originally shared this on Medium. Follow…

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How One Entrepreneur Went From Zero to Funded in Under 6 Hours on Kickstarter

Crowdfunding has come to stay. it’s an incredibly powerful way to raise money for your new project. Kickstarter is one of the most popular crowdfunding platforms. And to date more…

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8 min

Tom Bilyeu (Co-Founder) Reveals How His Startup Became a Billion Dollar Company

In an AMA on reddit, Tom Bilyeu, President and Co-Founder of Quest Nutrition (the 2nd Fastest Growing Private Company in America in the 2014 Inc 500), answered questions on how he started…

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How The Most Successful People Spent Their Time When They Were Young

What are the most common traits among successful people when they were young? What do the likes of Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, Vinod Khosla, Gayle Laakmann McDowell,…

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This is an Ultimate Guide to Becoming a Successful Entrepreneur

This is one of the most comprehensive guides on how to become a successful entrepreneur. If you don’t know where to begin to become an entrepreneur, this is a must-read. If…

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Bill Gross (Founder of Idealab) Reveals The Single Biggest Reason Why Startups Succeed (Backed by Research)

Bill Gross has founded a lot of startups, and incubated many others — and he got curious about why some succeeded and others failed. So he gathered data from hundreds…

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7 min

5 Entrepreneurs Reveal How They Started Side Businesses Whilst Working 9-5 Jobs

This is especially useful for anyone who is thinking about quitting a job to start a business. Most of your questions may be answered in these practical lessons of people…

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3 min

How One Online Florist Generated $335k in Revenue Exclusively From Social Media

This impressive story is MASSIVELY IMPORTANT for anyone who plans to use social media to market their business! Here is an amazing account of how a florist generates almost all of his business…

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7 min

This Entrepreneur Quit a $200k Job for His Startup, F**ked up His First Year But Eventually Succeeded

This is a personal startup story worth your time. Hope you find it useful. Originally shared on Medium by Rahim Madhavji, the President of KnightsbridgeFX.com, a company that helps Canadians get…

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