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Lessons Learned: Hugh Molotsi

Startup Lessons Learned

One of the highlights of my time at Intuit was being part of a skunkworks team in 1999 that developed Intuit’s first payment service, the QuickBooks Merchant Account Service. I was generously rewarded the Intuit Founders Award in 2011 for helping get it started.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: New Assessment Tool For Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

He currently has a 1999 strategy. Green Earth Aerogels At age 16, kids have very different career counseling needs than they do at 18 kids. Last up, Fortunato Cardenas from Barcelona, Spain, presented Green Earth Aerogels , a nano-materials company in Barcelona, Spain focused on developing insulation gels from rice.

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Smooth-Stone Changes Name to Calxeda; Adds Hires

Austin Startup

Over a 25 year career, Baughman has gained experience in leading worldwide sales organizations, brings expertise in full life cycle product management, proven revenue creation and growth management including taking a start up from zero to $1.6B, and shepherding companies through all phases from start up launch to IPO to acquisition.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

At the same time, the company contained its operating costs and came out of the recession stronger, bigger, and more profitable than it had been in 1999. I built my first startup in Argentina during the economic crisis-turned-revolution in 2001,” writes Frederic Kerrest , “and my co-founder and I started Okta in the depths of the U.S.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. Greene, Land Carroll & Blair PC ! #20 My fiancé is one of the best ideation consultants in the world (the brain), he was a top rated mentor at Founder Institute and has built and sold numerous successful businesses. 12 – It was Just Time.

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

thebarefootvc

The Rise of Conscious Capitalism: I’ve been involved with social entrepreneurship for years through my involvement with organizations such as Echoing Green and the Unreasonable Institute , and this is the year that I saw massive growth and interest in the sector from the mainstream.

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

YoungUpstarts

For those that do, the benefits are a bigger customer base, higher revenues and higher profitability. Marketing products into international markets is not a simple task”, says Julio Oliveto, founder of Livre, an innovative wheelchair-tricycle company in Brazil. But going global can be an intimidating prospect for some.

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