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Teen Entrepreneurs: Five Ingredients for Success

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Ron Flavin
October 20, 2017

Teen entrepreneurs are growing in number. The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor says that the average age of a typical entrepreneur is between 25 and 45, but that more and more people are starting businesses at a younger age. This has given rise to an increase in the number of teen entrepreneurs around the globe.

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Citizen Potawatomi Nation Fuels Ambitions, Entrepreneurship

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JoAnne Dyer
February 24, 2017

Citizen Potawatomi Nation Fuels Ambitions, Entrepreneurship

Eight months after Citizen Potawatomi Nation member Sherry Foutz bought Advertising Ideas, Inc., a fire shut it down, forcing her to start over. Now this mom of seven is celebrating that business’s 30th anniversary and sharing how...

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10 Commandments of Intrapreneurship

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Manny Frishberg
October 17, 2015

1. Come to work each day ready to be fired

2.Circumvent any orders aimed at stopping your dream

3. Do any job needed to make your project work, regardless of your job description.

4. Find people to help you.

5. Follow your intuition about the people you choose and work only with the best.

6. Work underground as long as you can --publicity triggers the corporate immune system

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Innovation Dojo: From Japan by way of Iceland

Rut Einarsdottir
October 13, 2015

A newly founded student organization focusing on innovation and entrepreneurship in the land of the rising sun.

Innovation Dojo is a student organization founded in Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University in Beppu, Japan. It is based on the ideology that everybody can start up their own company, and even initiate social change if they have the right idea, and the passion to bring it to reality.

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Key Traits of Entrepreneurs

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Patricia Vaccarino
October 12, 2015

Entrepreneurs have a different mindset from people who have jobs. Here are some key traits:

Stubborness. True Entrepreneurs don’t know how to give up.  This attribute is far greater than persistence. It means entrepreneurs have to actually learn how to give up.  They have to learn when to cut their losses and move on. And usually they can’t move on until they’ve indentified their next big idea or business concept...

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