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Benzinga – A Successful Financial Newswire And Secrets To Its Success

Taking a website costing $1000 and getting 50,000 active members in the first five months makes you sit up and take notice! Jason Raznick, the founder and CEO of...

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Who Do You Think You Are?

Identity, the idea of self-identification was so important and so prevalent in major news stories, that Dictionary.com picked ‘Identity’ as the 2015 word of the year. This article on...

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Mentor Mondays: The Soul of an Entrepreneur

Welcome to our new series, Mentor Mondays, where we will feature expert advice and guidance for startups from Techstars mentors. Today we welcome Chicago mentor, Gregg Latterman. Gregg is a...

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What Steve Jobs Taught Me About Missed Opportunities

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You...

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Thank Your Mentor

Every year around this time we stop and focus on being grateful for all that we have, our loved ones, our homes, and safety in our country and how...

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Leadership Tips: The Importance of Gratitude For Entrepreneurs

The business world is high stress and high demand for anyone who wants to succeed. If you’re a business leader, you’ll need every little edge you can get. The...

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The Trep Talk – A New Show For Entrepreneurs, The Way They Like It!

We are super excited to announce the launch of our show The Trep Talk on MichiganBusinessNetwork.com! The Trep Talk, is about the entrepreneurial spirit. Our audience consists of Entrepreneurs...

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Gratitude in a 140 Character World

140 Characters – not words, characters. That’s the amount of attention people allow themselves today. That’s the amount of time people have today. We get it, we’re all rushing...

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How Do You Thank Your Team?

It’s getting to be that time of year again when our thoughts go to showing our gratitude to those we depend on on every day to make our busy...

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The EOS Entrepreneur

EOS®, the Entrepreneurial Operating System, is a complete set of simple concepts and practical tools that has helped thousands of entrepreneurs get what they want from their businesses. Implementing...

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On-Demand Economy Goes White Collar: The Rise Of The Lawyer-Entrepreneur

Before founding grocery-delivery app Instacart, Apoorva Mehta had tried and failed to create a social network for lawyers. The reason for his troubles, he would later reflect, was that lawyers “don’t...

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Mom and pop crowdfunding for startups is about to become a reality

Mom and pop crowdfunding for startups is about to become a reality. That’s good news, but it also comes with a lot of red flags. On Friday, the Securities...

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Concious Business

The Entrepreneurial Mindset

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It’s a Numbers Game

When we take the time to get into the numbers, we are able to see that being an entrepreneur is mathematically possible. With a little focus, determination and some...

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27 Facts Most People Don’t Know About Startups

 

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Book Reviews

The Dip, by Seth Godin – book review

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What Can You Learn from Elon Musk’s Launch of the New Tesla?

Elon Musk had a good and a bad day last week. He launched the new Tesla model x – a fully electric SUV! That is an amazing accomplishment and he...

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Business Strategy

Entrepreneurs Need Entrepreneurial Attorneys

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How Stinky Gym Clothes are like Being an Entrepreneur

Being an entrepreneur is a lot like getting the smell of out dirty workout clothes.  How? Because when I found a solution for cleaning my stinky gym clothes,  it...

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The essential to-do list for the aspiring entrepreneur

From my perch at Harvard Business School, I can tell you one thing about the future of American business: it will be built by entrepreneurs with great visions and...

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