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How To Leverage Technology As A Female Entrepreneur

Strategy Driven

Technology is playing an increasingly important role in people’s lives, both personally and professionally. As a female entrepreneur, it is essential to understand the capabilities of technology in order to connect with customers and cultivate meaningful relationships.

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Minority Entrepreneurs Still Face Discrimination When Seeking Finance

The Horizons Tracker

Nearly ten years ago, a group of researchers from Brigham Young University, Utah State University, and Rutgers shed light on a disconcerting phenomenon: discrimination within the realm of bank loan services, which cast a shadow over the American Dream for minority entrepreneurs.

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Frontline Festival: Leaders share about favorite apps, technology, and productivity hacks

Let's Grow Leaders

This month’s festival gives tips about favorite tools and technology. Now on to our topic for June: What tools do you use to stay productive? Wally Bock of Three Star Leadership has been tracking his productivity for around fifty years now. Productivity is never an accident. He’s always more productive afterwards.

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Do Entrepreneurs Learn From Their Experiences?

The Horizons Tracker

The entrepreneurial learning curve is often an extremely steep one, with entrepreneurs picking up the tools of the trade at a rapid pace as they try to grow their businesses. The delayed product launches don’t appear to suggest that learning is happening in many startups today. Pivoting successfully. Slack timekeeping.

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Entrepreneurs Want Investors To Show Their Sustainable Credentials

The Horizons Tracker

Jeff Bezos famously remarked that he prefers entrepreneurs to be missionaries than mercenaries, so it perhaps stands to reason that many entrepreneurs create their businesses with a clear desire to make the world a better place. Sustainable ambitions.

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Are Entrepreneurs Better Off Keeping Their Day Jobs?

The Horizons Tracker

When we talk of entrepreneurs there is a tendency to think in terms of Hernan Cortes, the famous Spanish explorer who burned his ships upon landing in Mexico in order to convince his men that there was no turning back. “ There is value in gaining concrete evidence, real-time market feedback, that your product or service works.

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Entrepreneurs Need A Detailed Understanding Of Their Customer’s Problems

The Horizons Tracker

The deluge of easy money into the sector has prompted many would-be entrepreneurs to take their eye off the ball, and whereas Peter Drucker famously said that the only real purpose of a business is to create a customer, the current entrepreneurial landscape allows founders to get rich without worrying too much about that.