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Why Having A BHAG Is Critical To Your Company’s Success

YoungUpstarts

As employees work together to achieve this grand goal, they’ll come up with innovative solutions and new ideas. My company was founded in 2004, but we didn’t have a BHAG until 2013. We started franchising and slowly expanded from Fairfield County in Connecticut over to New York. BHAGs also stimulate the creative juices.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

His findings are based on data from more than 2,000 companies that received venture funding, generally at least $1 million, from 2004 through 2010. Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., At its peak, in 2010, Goodmail had roughly 40 employees. Connecticut.

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9/11?s 10th

OnlyOnce

I had left the city that morning to drive to a meeting in Danbury, Connecticut at Pittney-Bowes with our then head of sales, Dave Paulus. We had one junior employee in our New York office who got into his car on the afternoon of 9/11, drove to New Hampshire, and never contacted us again. Just completely blew a fuse and dropped out.