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28 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Entrepreneurs They Consider to be Successful

Hearpreneur

His company has introduced a new way of shipping packages to the market – through InPost. I learned from her that even if finances are an issue, it's worth taking risks if you know your idea would change the market. He perfectly mastered personal branding, for which I sincerely admire him. Thanks to Matt Gillman, SMB Compass ! #6-

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6 Tips for Coming Up With Your Million-Dollar Business Idea

Up and Running

“Don’t get focused on the tech or how to dominate the market, just identify a problem and set about solving it. “I realized in the early 1990s that there was no appropriate yoga for fitness professionals,” says YogaFit® founder, Beth Shaw. says HourlyNerd co-founder and co-CEO, Rob Biederman. “So

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Build it and they won’t come: How and why growth hacking came to be

The Next Web

One explanation is that “growth hacking” is just a catchy way to rebrand marketers, but this begs the question as to why “growth hacking” went viral in the first place. Deloitte’s Shift Index , which tracks economic competitiveness, has shown a long-run decline in a firm’s ability to retain market leadership. Channel saturation.

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3 Ways Technology Is Changing Small Business Lending

YoungUpstarts

by Jake Dacillo, Marketing Director, Balboa Capital. In 1994 Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said, “retail banks are dinosaurs, they can be bypassed,” in a Newsweek interview. Over two decades have passed since he made that statement, but the Internet has helped change the banking landscape remarkably.

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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

Feld Thoughts

Jack Tankersley, a long time mentor of mine, co-founder of Centennial Funds, and co-founder of Meritage Funds, wrote me a very long response. Instead, the driver was the 1983 bull market. Put a willing and forgiving exit market following any investment period and you get spectacular returns.

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The Story of How/Why K9 Invested in Pragli

K9 Ventures

Because, to rent a U-haul, put a banner on it and park yourself in South Park is about as good as it gets for Guerilla Marketing. My inclination was that “this is a team of scrappy founders, and I like how they think.”. In CS147 one of the video we showed to the class was the Sun Starfire concept video that was produced in 1994.

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Leadership and CEO Succession

Reid Hoffman

Recently, Jeff Bezos announced that he would be stepping down as CEO of Amazon, the iconic blitzscaling company that he has led since 1994 – nearly 27 years. Looking back, I believe that Jeff is one of most iconic, successful founders and CEOs of all time. Andy Jassy will be taking over as CEO, and Jeff will be Executive Chairman.