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HelloWallet: Democratizing High-Quality Financial Guidance

While most everyone needs it, only 20% of Americans have access to high quality financial advisors. HelloWallet, a startup founded by  former Brookings Institution scholar Matt Fellowes in 2009, aims to change.

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CEO Sunday: Ideas Are Free

I was in my office today, engulfed by the excitement of a new company launch and the incredible stress endured over the last 12 months getting to this point. Building a startup.

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Founder Stories From Kris Petersen

Entrepreneur and good human being Kris Petersen started his career as a cog in the wheel of corporate America. His dark-side experience includes over five years of technology consulting for.

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Confirmation Bias: Learn to Handle It

Why would you want to keep in practice being wrong?” Call asked. “I’d think it would be something you’d try to avoid.” “You can’t avoid it, you’ve got to learn.

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Turning Competition into Motivation

I think one of the biggest challenges I have ever faced was learning about my competitors. I remember the moment I felt vulnerable and scared that all the work and.

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Chicago Entrepreneurs Honored at the White House

Chicago-based startups GiveForward and ColorJar have been selected as two of the 2011 Empact100, and will be honored for their accomplishments and positive economic influence in today’s ceremony at the.

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What Hiking Can Teach Us About Launching a Startup

The following post pulls advice from Zach’s upcoming Appalachian Trail Book: Appalachian Trials. For more information on the only AT prep book that prepares hikers for their ensuing psychological/emotional battle,.

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Shoefitr Accomplishing Major Feets

The difference between an employee and an entrepreneur is not the “Why didn’t I think of that?” heard around bar stools and coffee tables worldwide. It’s “Why didn’t I do.

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Startups Alive, Well and Growing in Michigan

We are all quite familiar with entrepreneurial activity along the East and West Coasts.  They have captured our attention for some time.  Yet, few think of Michigan as an area.

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How Do You Teach “Entrepreneurship”?

This semester I enrolled in the introductory class for the new Entrepreneurship minor at the University of Scranton. Over the course of the semester, our class hosted several guest speakers.

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