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How I Lost $3 Million in 24 Hours and Bounced Back

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It was 2010. I lost my confidence. Buoyed by this success, I decided to go for the biggest deal of my life: the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. On January 15, 2010, I was expecting a delivery of 17,000-plus tickets, and I had paid a deposit of $3 million for them. But the tickets never showed up. And then the phone rang.

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Small Business Employment, Confidence Stalled

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Defining Small Business Innovation 2010 Top 10 Small Business Trends Intuit Future of Small Business Resources The Changing Face of Entrepreneurs The Connected World of Entrepreneurs Disclosure Policy Emergent Research works with corporate, government and non-profit clients. Your comment has not yet been posted.

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Not All Stories Have Happy Endings—For This Entrepreneur, It Was Still Worth It

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In 2010, after losing her fashion design job during The Great Recession, Kristine Deer founded the activewear brand K-DEER. K-DEER was one of the first brands to make and market printed activewear in 2010 before it became an established retail department. “I Taking a leap. I had nothing to lose besides my ego,” Deer says.

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Our Updated Small Business Closure Forecast is More Optimistic, But Still Grim

Small Business Labs

  And in 2010, the peak of the last recession, 10% closed.     The country opened up faster than in our base case. .      The country opened up faster than in our base case. .  Under the optimistic case, about 700,000 employer small business businesses would close in 2020. 

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James Dyson: The Ever-Tinkering Engineer

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Perhaps you’re tired of waiting the 20 seconds or so it takes your shower water to heat up. Between his taped-up prototype and the beginning of his current market prevalence, there were 15 years of rejections, lawsuits and near-bankruptcy, alongside thousands of prototype revisions. You can bounce ideas off each other.”

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10 Modern-Day Leaders in Personal Growth

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Operating sans crystal ball or time machine, we can’t say with certainty, but we have a few ideas we feel pretty confident about. Brené Brown Photo by Maile Wilson You might know Brené Brown from her viral 2010 TED Talk, “The Power of Vulnerability,” which is one of the most viewed TED Talks of all time.

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Why Supporting Small Businesses This Holiday Season Is More Urgent Than Ever

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A clothing brand that makes its wearers feel comfortable and confident, Richer Poorer is full of your closet staples, like classic tees, tops, loungewear, dresses and more. Ideal for the everyday athlete, Lasso offers compression socks that help you move confidently, recover safely and ultimately feel like the best version of yourself.

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