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Small Business Spotlight: This Wine Store Owner Got Started by Buying an Existing Business

The Motley Fool

Tim is a passionate serial entrepreneur who also owns a software startup, a consulting firm, and a portfolio of real estate. In some ways, buying an existing business can be less risky than starting your own -- and can still deliver significant return on investment.

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Give

This is going to be BIG.

There's a lot of money flowing to startups and so if you're going to run a fund, you're going to have to get out there in front of a lot of people. That's also why when I talk to people looking to break into this industry, or startups in general, my advice generally revolves around "Start giving.". That's basically the way in.

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This AI Stock Is Also a Great Dividend Stock

The Motley Fool

Where to invest $1,000 right now? See the 10 stocks Staying out of the AI race Startups and some tech giants are feverishly racing to develop more capable AI models, a costly endeavor. Instead, IBM's AI strategy revolves around enabling other companies to deploy the groundbreaking technology to solve real problems.

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3 Tech Stocks Already Using Artificial Intelligence to Their Advantage

The Motley Fool

Second, the main beneficiaries may not be promotional new startups, but rather already-large public companies with scale and proprietary data, which will be able to automate both customer and employee-facing applications to boost their profits. But there are some key differences. Image source: Getty Images.

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Airbnb Stock: Buy, Sell, or Hold?

The Motley Fool

In just over a decade, Airbnb (NASDAQ: ABNB) has grown from a startup in its founders' apartment in San Francisco, California, into one of the leading travel companies in the world. But that hasn't prevented the stock from surging 60% year to date, nearly doubling the return of the Nasdaq Composite.

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Clearlake and Insight Partners backed Appriss Retail acquired by Gemspring Capital

Clearlake Capital Group

Appriss Retails performance-improvement solutions yield measurable results with a significant return on investment. About Clearlake Clearlake is an investment firm founded in 2006 operating integrated businesses across private equity, credit, and other related strategies.

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The integration layer: An untapped orchestrator for data quality and business growth

Insight Partners

But the argument is not just about tech debt; investing in the right platform can yield enormous short- and long-term benefits, not just long-term outcomes. There’s a common misconception that the economics don’t make sense for an early-stage startup to invest in an Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) or an automation platform.