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6 Stories of Successful New Entrepreneurs to Inspire Your Business

Up and Running

Seeing a 200-percent revenue growth in just the first year after securing that loan, TRISTAR took out an additional $500,000 SBA-backed loan to expand its physical presence into two more locations. In 2001, they secured their second SBA loan for the business. In addition, those funds enabled the company to open a DC field office.

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How The New General Data Protection Regulation Will Affect Online Businesses

YoungUpstarts

The new regulations replace the 1995 EU Data Protection Directive and the 1998 UK Data Protection Act. Although these are optional, they will likely make proving your compliance very easy in the future and could alleviate unnecessary stress should your site be audited for privacy and security by the EU.

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Contact Centers Use Callback Technology To Reduce Customer Frustration

YoungUpstarts

In 1995, all that changed with the introduction of “Virtual Queue” to handle callback service. This left the customer in a vacuum, not knowing when a call would be returned, and it did little to reduce customer frustration at the expense of the company.

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Gen Z Making money: From Social Media Influencers to Gig Economy

VC Cafe

So much so, that the internet is already filled with articles such as “ 5 money lessons millennials can learn from Gen Z ”, explaining how those who were born after 1995 are improving the ways in which they make a profit.

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What Can You Learn from the 4-Hour Workweek?

Both Sides of the Table

It took more than a year to make this happen (I’ll cover how I did this in a different post) but January 2nd, 1995 I flew to France for 2 years and didn’t move back to the US for 11 years. I had a nice severance check and secured a job with Andersen Consulting very quickly. I chose a different path. And his boss.

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Humanization And Monetization Of Data

YoungUpstarts

The company will be facing legal, economic, and security issues that will negatively affect their bottom line for years to come. In big business, data breaches, hackers, and security slip ups are inconvenient major mistakes that cost millions of dollars, hours, lost customers, and lost trust.

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How AI And Big Data Are Changing Century-Old Media Companies

YoungUpstarts

In a race to secure eyeballs over subscriptions, every publication launched a website and gave away free access to their content — even while still charging print subscribers. That experiment worked for some publications, but not for others. The WSJ isn’t the only site experimenting with this kind of predictive and dynamic paywall.

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