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a person who starts a business and is willing to risk loss in order to make money
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No longer do entrepreneurs have to go into a bank branch and bring reams of documents to apply for small business funding.
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Rohit Arora, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
Many unicorn-potential entrepreneurs are needed, and Silicon Valley attracts the world’s best.
—Dileep Rao, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
By empowering entrepreneurs to act with finance-smart skills, Europe can ignite its own wave of unicorns based on its entrepreneurs and not by reliance on venture capital.
—Dileep Rao, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
For industry leaders, investors and entrepreneurs like myself, these circumstances highlight the importance of refining our approach.
—Rodolfo Delgado, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
Could an election spark such a dramatic turnabout for the nation’s entrepreneurs?
—Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2024
While this might seem like the American dream, most American entrepreneurs face what is often called feast-or-famine mentality.
—Sean Gould, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
If all parties can agree to feed the data, widening the ecosystem for traditionally underserved entrepreneurs can become a relic of the past.
—Brock Blake, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
Without unicorn-potential entrepreneurs driving innovation and angels taking risks, the VC model would crumble.
—Dileep Rao, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
Rohit Arora, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
Many unicorn-potential entrepreneurs are needed, and Silicon Valley attracts the world’s best.
—Dileep Rao, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
By empowering entrepreneurs to act with finance-smart skills, Europe can ignite its own wave of unicorns based on its entrepreneurs and not by reliance on venture capital.
—Dileep Rao, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
For industry leaders, investors and entrepreneurs like myself, these circumstances highlight the importance of refining our approach.
—Rodolfo Delgado, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
Could an election spark such a dramatic turnabout for the nation’s entrepreneurs?
—Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2024
While this might seem like the American dream, most American entrepreneurs face what is often called feast-or-famine mentality.
—Sean Gould, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
If all parties can agree to feed the data, widening the ecosystem for traditionally underserved entrepreneurs can become a relic of the past.
—Brock Blake, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
Without unicorn-potential entrepreneurs driving innovation and angels taking risks, the VC model would crumble.
—Dileep Rao, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
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“Entrepreneurs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/entrepreneurs. Accessed 17 Jan. 2025.
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