2000 Founder Global Green 
ConversionXL
MARCH 19, 2020
“Rare is the business that has a formal disaster plan, let alone one that covers a global Black Swan event.” The HBR study contrasts Office Depot and Staples during the 2000 recession: Office Depot cut 6% of its workforce, but it couldn’t reduce operating costs significantly. That crisis saw a global spending decrease of 9%, with U.S.
www.huffingtonpost.com
MAY 10, 2011
Minted.com is both a global design community and stationery retailer. I was lucky to sign on as advisor and investor the founder of a very high-profile consumer Internet site who happens to also be a former engineer, who I will call Richard. The first thing I did was to find an advisor who I could trust.
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Reid Hoffman
MARCH 19, 2019
O’Reilly’s article describes two businesses from his own career at O’Reilly—the Global Network Navigator (GNN) web portal, which he sold to AOL, and the Website web server, which eventually fell by the wayside. Thanks to the internet and other globalizing technologies, the entire world has entered the Networked Age.
Hearpreneur
SEPTEMBER 15, 2017
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). When I was focusing more on just the green part, I used Green And Profitable. Photo Credit: Shel Horowitz.
Startup Lessons Learned
JUNE 9, 2020
I've known Brian Chesky, Co-Founder, CEO and Head of Community at Airbnb for a long time. Instead, the global pandemic has turned 2020 into its most harrowing year. You become a global company. If you're in the travel business, a global pandemic is an existential threat. 8:22) On how crisis reveals character. (9:11)
Cracking the Code
JULY 15, 2020
The worst, because the global COVID-19 pandemic, on top of its impact on the health of millions of people, has created havoc in the global economy, triggering unprecedented levels of unemployment and destroying many small and large businesses. Indeed, all the traffic lights are green for the SaaS ecosystem (fingers crossed!).
Up and Running
APRIL 5, 2017
After the turn of the century, startups created fewer jobs than they did before the year 2000. Several economic factors make healthcare a likely place where your startup will see profits: The global preventive healthcare technologies and services market is expected to reach $432.4 One of these fields is green energy.
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