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Stop Thinking And Acting Local: Small Businesses Seeking Growth Should See Themselves As Global Enterprises

YoungUpstarts

Marketing products into international markets is not a simple task”, says Julio Oliveto, founder of Livre, an innovative wheelchair-tricycle company in Brazil. To tackle this, B-Free researched and patented another product based on market demand. But going global can be an intimidating prospect for some. Attracting Overseas Customers.

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30 Entrepreneur Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

We want our clients to feel like out of all the shopping they have done online they finally reached the top of their journey in securing the right product for their families. Since my co-founders and I haven't agreed on the company name yet, we decided to post in one of the Business Naming Facebook groups that we joined.

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The Decade in Tech

Start Up Blog

The weird part is that USA and China both surveil their citizens, though the Chinese government isn’t making a secret of tracking their citizens, while the USA is pretending it’s about security when clearly it’s not. I liken it to the dot-com bubble of 1999. Facebook goes public.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

It can also keep your employees employed or help you retain your job—a modicum of security in uncertain times. These companies get the prevention-promotion balance right by evaluating every aspect of their business model—making near-term changes that reduce costs now and after demand returns (unlike layoffs). Progressive.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

In places where international diplomacy had failed, citizens around the world found their individual and collective voices to topple dictatorships and demand better lives for themselves and future generations. Kiva co-founder Jessica Jackley’s latest venture Profounder is one platform that could power these transactions.

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Unfortunately after twenty years working such demanding jobs I was no longer able to physically do the work. I heard quite a few comments from others that we should encourage her to do something more traditional, easier or something that would ensure her financial security in the long run. Photo Credit: Sean Matula.

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My 2020 Vision for Graduates: How to be Optimistic in Terrible Times

Reid Hoffman

How much change will you demand? How do you achieve some level of economic security? It was 1999. After leaving Fujitsu a couple years earlier, I had co-founded a company called SocialNet and was in charge of product there. Is it temporary? Is it ongoing? How much change will you tolerate?