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6 “Don’ts” Of Starting A Successful Business

YoungUpstarts

I started as a sales representative more than 15 years ago at WorkStride, where I am now EVP of Sales and Marketing. Tom Silk is the executive vice president of sales and marketing at WorkStride. In 2012, he facilitated the company’s sale to The Riverside Company.

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From Airbnb to TaskRabbit to Zimride, sharing is becoming big business

www.usatoday.com

The dot-com boom of early 2000 saw a proliferation of similar anything-at-your-service start-ups. Entrepreneurs have also tapped sharing platforms to directly market their goods and services, somewhat blurring the line between unadulterated peer-to-peer co-ops and direct sales channels. Thats real money."

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10 Mom-and-Pop Businesses That Turned Into Empires

YoungUpstarts

The mom-and-pop business became an instant success and its annual sales continued to skyrocket each year. In 2000, global giant Unilever bought out Ben & Jerry’s for about $326 million in order to eliminate competition with the corporation’s brands, Breyer’s and Good Humor.

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Returns for brand-name VC funds

finance.fortune.cnn.com

Accel Partners VII (2000): 122% (97%). ARCH Venture Fund V (2000): 41% (11%). Commonwealth Capital Ventures III (2000): 110% (56%). HIG Venture Partners (2000): 44% (22%). Insight Venture Partners IV (2000): 169% (119%). Lightspeed Venture Partners VI (2000): 112% (80%). Onset Ventures IV (2000): 31% (4%).

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1985: Oil Prices Will Go Up Forever

Feld Thoughts

In addition to getting paid $10 / hour (which quickly taught me that if I worked more hours, I got paid more money) I received a 5% royalty on gross sales of the two products I wrote (PC Log and PC Economics). In 1983 the oil business was booming and Petcom was growing quickly. via chartsbin.com. The graph gives away the punch line.

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Trade Show Checklist: How To Successfully Sell Your Product At Trade Shows

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

A very well-known buyer from a wonderful boutique in Nantucket, Massachusetts came by and said our booth was the most beautiful in the whole show and that we stuck out like a sore thumb. 5000 booth fee $2000 fare to NYC and hotel room $500 food and cabs = $7500 TOTAL TRIP Lesson learned…priceless. You don’t belong here!”

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: Akamai

Seeing Both Sides

Incorporated in 1998 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company’s network of over 100,000 globally distributed servers provides an infrastructure layer that accelerates the distribution and delivery of content, media and applications. But the second year (2000) was simply astounding: nearly $90 million! Gross Profit. $(60).