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Cake Over Heels – In Love With Baking

YoungUpstarts

He studied design in Singapore’s Nanyang Polytechnic and later spent four years pursuing a graphic design degree in Sydney, Australia. He roped in Phay, whom he had met during his university days, because not only she was a passionate baker herself, but Phay was someone he knew was good in administration and sales.

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Resources for Global Entrepreneurs

Up and Running

If you find a resource on bank loans dated 2002, for example, you’ll probably want to verify that the information is still correct by comparing it to other pages in your search results. Is it a sales pitch or an opinion? Australia and New Zealand. Small Business Association of Australia. Australia, and the United Kingdom.

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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 2002, the Glacéau, line of beverages became the top-selling enhanced water brand in America and it raked in $350 million in revenues in 2006. The following year, Coca-Cola bought out Energy Brands for $4.1

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Lessons Learned: Inc Magazine on Minimum Viable Product (and a.

Startup Lessons Learned

Then, the company spends no more than a few hundred dollars marketing the product through search engines and to the contacts in its sales database and LinkedIn. We do not develop a product until we get a paying customer," says Orit Pennington , who co-founded the six-employee company with her husband in 2002.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter September 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

TaKaDu, founded in 2009, has launched its service with some of the world’s leading water utilities, including Thames Water in the UK, Wiener Wasserwerke in Austria, Sydney Water and Yarra Valley Water in Australia, Evides Waterbedrijf in the Netherlands, Hagihon in Israel and others.

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Jedi Mind Tricks: 17 Lesser Known Ways to Persuade People

ConversionXL

Participants in the US and Australia rated the strength of their belief in global warming. If you want people to buy your message, ask for the sale in the situation that supports your claims. Use repetition of key benefits or value proposition in your sales copy and ad campaigns many times. Overdo it and you lose the sale.

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