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Backstage Capital Is Funding Startups by Underestimated Entrepreneurs

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Dickson had started Flat Out with $100,000 from her personal network, but realized she would need more money to produce vending machines that could take credit cards, track inventory, send emails and engage with customers via artificial intelligence and facial recognition.

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How to Protect Yourself from Online Scams

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If you’ve felt like the number of scammy emails coming through your inbox has risen in the last year, you’re not alone. The FBI’s 2020 Internet Crime Report states that there were 300,000 more internet crimes (phishing, non-payment/non-delivery scams or extortion) complaints in 2020 than in 2019. Check your credit report quarterly.

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How to Launch (and Maintain) a Successful E-Commerce Business

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This sounds like the fantasy version of the e-commerce lifestyle that’s sold in Instagram ads, but it was reality for my wife and me when we lived in Mexico in 2019. Email strangers to ask if you can set up a five-minute call. Capture them on your email list. After word-of-mouth, email marketing is the No.