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Friday Entrepreneurs: Eric Bahn, BeatTheGMAT.com

Today I’m featuring Eric Bahn on Friday Entrepreneurs. I’ve known Eric for years (we met in college), but I only recently found out he runs a huge online community of GMAT test-takers called http://www.beatthegmat.com. Intrigued, I asked him why he was such a huge nerd. I’m not joking, I really did ask him that below. [...]

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Friday Entrepreneurs: Wei Yang, CallForSitters.com

Today, I’m featuring Wei Yang, 27, from CallforSitters.com, a site that connects babysitters and parents. It’s cool because it has the classic chicken-and-egg problem, yet it has nearly 100,000 users! If any of you have business ideas that only become useful after a lot of people join, check this one out. As you read below, [...]

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Friday Entrepreneurs: Steve Ressler of Young Government Leaders

For this week’s Friday Entrepreneurs post, I interviewed Steve Ressler. He founded Young Government Leaders, an organization that brings federal employees together outside of work. Steve is 25 and YGL now has over 2,500 members. As you read, note a few things:

This wasn’t a fancy idea. It was based on getting together after a happy [...]

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Friday Entrepreneurs: Premal Shah, Kiva.org

A lot of you have emailed asking what I think about Prosper.com. Before I cover them, I want to introduce you to my friend Premal Shah, who’s the president of Kiva, a website that lets you make microfinance loans to entrepreneurs in the developing world. He was one of the early guys at Paypal [...]

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Friday Entrepreneurs: John Knox and Matt Landry, Take Cover

This is part of a series called Friday Entrepreneurs.
I can’t count the number of times I’ve heard people say, “If you rent a house, you’re just throwing money out the window.” This is complete nonsense and it always makes me want to throw something heavy and crystal-based gainst the wall, so I was interested when [...]

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Friday Entrepreneurs: Brandon McNamara, Biz BookTalk

Brandon McNamara emailed me earlier this week about a business-book review site he started, http://www.bizbooktalk.com. I’d actually stumbled across the site before, and I think it’s a great example of a very specific niche site that anyone can start.
When you read below, notice a few things:

How many failures he went through in order to get [...]

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