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6 Stories of Successful New Entrepreneurs to Inspire Your Business

Up and Running

In 1998, a few years after launching, the company got a $200,000 SBA-guaranteed loan. 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. iRobot — From robots to riches.

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Why India Will Become The SaaS Hotbed Of Tomorrow

YoungUpstarts

All the ingredients for Indian SaaS dominance are here: From producing some of the world’s best developers to competing on cost and producing quality products of global standard. Today, more than one-quarter of all software revenue is derived from the SaaS model, and it is growing twice as fast as traditional software growth.

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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

Gust

And in January I saw that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. I bought the Diamond Rio mp3 player in 1998. I’ll try to offer some guidelines to address these issues, but I generally recommend you keep the day job until your new company is producing real revenue.

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How Diversity Can Increase Innovation And Growth In Your Business

YoungUpstarts

With an almost 50 percent split between male (57%) and female (43%) employees, a diversity of ages of employees, with 30 percent identifying as Asian, 30 percent Hispanic/Latino, 13 percent Caucasian, and 27 percent Other, every aspect of our company’s make-up is diverse.

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Gaming is Eating the World

VC Cafe

Newzoo estimates the global games market revenue at approximately $150 Billion in 2019, across all platforms, devices etc. According to Statista, the Music industry generated around $56 Billion in revenue in 2019, and movies generated record of $42.5 2019 Global Games Market – Newzoo. Billion in revenues in 2019.

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Will Meta’s Metaverse efforts survive the latest setbacks?

VC Cafe

Nick Clegg, Meta’s President of Global Affairs. For example, in 1998, Prof. and part of my hope by raising expectations and having more aggressive goals, and just kind of turning up the heat a little bit, is that I think some of you might just say that this place isn’t for you.

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7 Retargeting Case Studies That’ll Boost Your Current Campaigns

ConversionXL

Selling more than 17 million bags since 1998, eBags knew they had huge retargeting potential, but what they did with their data was pretty creative. Here are some stats: With their regular ad spend being quite high, their retargeting added an additional 15% in revenue. But eBags isn’t your typical bag store either.