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Ted Rheingold Founded Dogster in 2004: Five Questions About Building a Startup, Selling a Startup and Whether SF Is Still a Good Place

Hunter Walker

Dogster launched January 12, 2004 (Happy 12th Birthday Dogster!) By the end of 2004 I had brought on two co-founders: John Vars – who is now the Chief Product Office at TaskRabbit, and Steven Reading took over Sales and Revenue. Sales and IT were now handled by life-time pros and not start-up mercenaries.

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Vaping: the Startup Business in 2018

The Startup Magazine

The first modern e-cigarette was made in the mid-2000s and started to be sold in 2004, but the trend only caught up worldwide after 2010, when the interest in vaping started to increase and, consequently, the number of e-cigarette users too – a strong indicator of why this growing industry is currently trending amongst entrepreneurs.

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Advice From a Successful Female Business Owner: “Don’t Wait Until You are at the Top of Your Game to Get Covered”

Women Entrepreneurs Can

in 2004 and has grown her project management company into a success that makes $1 million in revenue annually. trillion in sales, shipments, receipts or revenue and employed more than 10 million people. Sometimes covering these costs without insurance can force the business to close. Increasing health care costs.

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From Loyalty Programs To Fan Clubs, A Paradigm Shift

YoungUpstarts

My company won the ROI of The Year award from The Banker magazine in 2004, something I was very proud of. I wanted to find a way to vastly simplify loyalty programs, eliminating most if not all of the costs and making them much lighter to deploy and manage. I expect that sales would be dramatically lower if not for our Fan Club.”.

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Be Careful not to be Penny Wise, Pound Foolish

Both Sides of the Table

.&# I took it to mean, “making decisions with small amounts of money (pennies) that end up making bad sense for affecting larger amounts of money (pounds, as in Great British Pounds).&# I thought of it as people who cut corners on small costs but paid dearly in terms of lost productivity on expensive staff.

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Customer Development in Japan: a History Lesson

Steve Blank

After many sales calls, early prospects showed little rush to buy it! In 2004, Googling terms like “high tech marketing” and “startup” I discovered “ The Four Steps to The Epiphany ” at Cafépress.com. But customers didn’t agree.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Our goals are to increase quality, by offering patients the best providers across the country, to increase access, by removing transportation barriers and connecting patients with these providers anywhere, and to lower costs, by eliminating the reliance on traditional healthcare infrastructure. Thanks to Stanley Kovak, Mirror Care !