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Founder of FoodtoEat.com Shares Her Story of Hustle

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"]As entrepreneurs, we face many challenges and from these challenges learn many lessons, both life and business, along our journey. However, it's not always the challenge itself that holds the most resistance to our success, but rather the way that we handle these challenges. This holds true for Deepti Sharma Kapur, founder of...

Matt Gottesman on What it Takes to Become a Better a ‘Smart Hustler’

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] Matt Gottesman knows a thing or two about what it takes to hustle your way to success.  As the Editor and Founder of Hustle & Deal Flow Magazine, Matt uses the magazine to tell the behind the scenes story of entrepreneurship.  Through candid interviews of entrepreneurs around the world, Matt is able to...

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Creator of Quikiks Hands-Free Shoes Shares Entrepreneurial Journey

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] Every entrepreneurs journey is different. Those who provide a service have a totally different path and experience totally different challenges than those who create a product. But for both, there are many challenges that remain the same: securing finances, building a team, staying motivated and getting your message to the market. I...

HustleCon Founder Shares 3 Secrets of Smart Hustle

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"]While we were at Hustlecon, we got a chance to sit and talk with Hustlecon founder, Elizabeth Yin. She was kind enough to share with us her three secrets to Smart Hustle: persistence, being able to adapt and being tactical. Check out our Hustlecon founder interview here: Smart Hustle Resources Entrepreneur Mindset: The Smart Hustler’s...

McDonald’s Franchise Owner Jim Lewis on Building Brand Trust, Creating a Culture and Building a Winning Team

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] Two of the biggest struggles most small business face are building a trusted brand and hiring the right people that will enforce that brand. The two go hand-in-hand and can constantly teeter on good or bad depending on the experience your customer has. You can spend tremendous amounts of time and dollars...

Why It’s Important to Find Perspective When Making Business Decisions

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] “No Man Is an Island”, but sometimes as small business owners we feel like we are deserted on an island – entrenched in our non-stop world of tasks, planning and decisions. Being a small business owner could possibly be one of the most difficult challenges one could ever take on. So...

Shark Tank’s Lori Greiner on Surviving the Turbulent Waters (and Sharks) of Entrepreneurship

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] She might be small in stature and known as the 'Shark with a Heart', but don't be mistaken - Lori Greiner is a fierce entrepreneur who is leaving a huge mark on the entrepreneurial landscape. Having made over sixty deals on ABC's Shark Tank, with well over fifty percent of those closing,...

Hourly Nerd: Turning “That Will Never Work” Into Small Business Success

Hourly Nerd: Turning "That Will Never Work" Into Small Business Success Mark Cuban, self-made billionaire and outspoken Shark Tank investor with a knack for finding and funding promising startups, knows a thing or two about starting and growing businesses. One often-quoted piece of Cuban’s advice is that entrepreneurs should know their core competencies and focus on...

Entrepreneurs Find Success Without the “Shark Tank”

From the Shark Tank to the Trenches: Never Take ‘No’ for an Answer The life of an entrepreneur is full of ups and downs. Not only do you have to fully embrace regular challenges and ambiguity—you must possess unrelenting persistence, belief and focus. And that’s just for the day-to-day operations. However even with all its challenges, entrepreneurship...

Goodvidio CEO Dimitrios Kourtesis

GoodVidio: The Startup Story of Entrepreneur Dimitrios Kourtesis

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"]About 10 minutes after landing in Austin, TX for SXSW, I met Dimitrios Kourtesis, CEO and Co-founder of retail video engagement curation platform GoodVidio. GoodVidio is a product that helps online retailers engage and convert their customers, by improving their product pages with high-quality video content that has already been put on social...

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ArborBridge Co-founders Share Three Things To Do When Your Market Is Dominated By Giants

ArborBridge Co-founders Share Three Things To Do When Your Market Is Dominated By Giants It can be difficult in today's competitive business space to rise above all the noise so your product or service can be discovered and heard. It becomes even more difficult when you are not one of the dominate players in your...

Beyond the Lemonade Stand: 7 Kid Entrepreneurs Share Their Secrets of Success

Beyond the Lemonade Stand: 7 Kid Entrepreneurs Share Their Secrets of Success When talking about kids running businesses, most people think of lemonade stands, delivering newspapers, mowing neighborhood lawns or babysitting. While those are still very common for many, kids today are taking entrepreneurship to a whole new level by creating products and businesses that...