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These Online Programs Will Make You Rethink How You Can Improve Your Business Skills

crowdSPRING Blog

There are terrific free YouTube channels for entrepreneurs and small business owners and many online schools and sites offer free or low-cost online courses. Lynda.com is the oldest education resource online , with an origin story that stretches all the way back to 1995. Fortunately, we live in the golden age of online learning.

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These Online Programs Will Make You Rethink How You Can Improve Your Business Skills

crowdSPRING Blog

There are terrific free YouTube channels for entrepreneurs and small business owners and many online schools and sites offer free or low-cost online courses. Lynda.com is the oldest education resource online , with an origin story that stretches all the way back to 1995. Fortunately, we live in the golden age of online learning.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I knew it was an easy fix, so I really didn’t want to pay for a tow truck in addition to the cost of the repair. It struck me that had the technology existed, travelers could have taken advantage of our empty aircraft to get back to London and then the aircraft could be dropped in Oxford, with minimal additional cost.

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

And, as the industrial revolution showed us, there are some real costs to scale. If O’Reilly had that same insight in 1995, it could have been an amazing blitzscaling opportunity. Paul’s track record as a serial entrepreneur was far more impressive than either Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick or Lyft co-founder Logan Green.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

Both Sides of the Table

He took out an ad in the Yellow Pages (it was the early 80′s, pre Internet), which cost him $1,000 / month for a half-page ad. Secondly, they had an owned & operated (O&O) website – Google.com – and Overture had shut down GoTo.com at the request of their very profitable and large distribution partners.

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Smells Like Money: The Business of Waste Management

Up and Running

” When Keith and Cheryl decided to branch out on their own in 1995, it was an exciting time. This would ultimately be the advantage Keith had, and still has, in running a smaller operation: relationships mean more to the owner and the customer. I should have, but we didn’t, and it cost us a lot of money.”

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

Since founding my business in 1981 as a typing and editing service, I’ve operated under many names/websites. Currently, as a profitability consultant for green and social entrepreneurship businesses, I show businesses how they can go beyond mere sustainability (keeping things the same) to regenerativity (making things better).

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