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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

Both Sides of the Table

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. Fund raising (as is much of life) is a sale – pure and simple. As with any sales campaign you need to: Qualify your buyers early so you focus your scarce resources on people likely to buy your product. .

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The Anti-Israel BDS Movement Will Fail

David Teten

The movement was born at the 2001 World Racism Conference at Durban as an attempt to pressure Israel, despite the ongoing support of Israel’s government and citizens for a two-state solution. . Even some pro-BDS websites have been built on Wix, an Israeli website development company with over 150 million users in 190 countries.

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6 Stories of Successful New Entrepreneurs to Inspire Your Business

Up and Running

This led to iRobot’s sale of more than 4,000 PacBot robots that perform perilous missions (like bomb disposal) in support of soldiers and first responders in combat. Since then, more than $30 million in SBIR funds have enabled iRobot to conduct 33 research initiatives to develop new sensors and other robot capability enhancements.

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Ecommerce: How to Survive its Troughs

ReadWriteStart

The rise of ecommerce started in 2001 – during the growth of the commercial availability of the internet in households. This new shift impacted as much as a 4% improvement in total sales of brands that had made the shift. The Rise of Ecommerce. Furthermore, this was the time Amazon became more popular in the market.

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From Side Hustle to Business — How to Determine When the Time is Right

Up and Running

When your business is also your passion, it can become all too easy to develop tunnel-vision. When you’ve spent months and months developing a tailored marketing strategy, zeroing in on what you believe to be the perfect strategy for capturing sales, it can be difficult to part with it if it isn’t proving successful.

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In a Strong Wind Even Turkeys Can Fly

Both Sides of the Table

Within a year, by late 2000 / early 2001 consulting firms were firing people en masse. On July 27th, 2001 Accenture IPO’s and many of the partners grew fabulously wealthy. During the down market they were able to double down on recruiting, sales, outsourcing, new market entries and marketing (yes, with Tiger ads ).

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The Long-Term Value of Loyalty

Both Sides of the Table

Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003. My company had raised venture capital in April 2001 but we were told that there may never be any more coming. I learned how to integrate customers into our product development process.