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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Photo Credit: Rob Greene. Thanks to Rob Greene, Price of Meat. #13- He speculated that upwardly mobile college graduates could be interested in a product or service that was superior to 7-11. With a new CEO in 2004, the toy company shifted gears and introduced new lines of some of the most popular LEGO sets in history.

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Which Color Converts The Best?

ConversionXL

In North America, green is typically associated with jealousy. Green supposedly means nature, freshness, growth and money. And analyzing the results in the 2004 Olympics, researchers have found that red also means dominance. Similar tendencies were found in the 2004 European Soccer Championship. Green vs red button war.

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What the musically-charged Dreamforce 2013 taught us about running a company

The Next Web

This year, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff featured current and former Top 40 performers including Huey Lewis and the News (I’m assuming “The News” was there too, but you might fact check me on that), Green Day, Blondie and many others. You’re singing along to Green Day in the rain. No doubt Vanilla Ice is on the agenda for 2014.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Photo Credit: Sheryl Green. Thanks to Sheryl Green, Sheryl Green Speaks ! #3- I started Mobile Home Friend, LLC with my son back in 2015. We buy, sell, renovate, flip, rent, and anything else we can legally do with mobile or manufactured homes. Thanks to Chuck O’Dell, Mobile Home Friend, LLC ! #6-

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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

This is going to be BIG.

2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. Mobile Payment Disappointment. (PS.there are various companies in this article I have or have had business involvements with. Reader beware.). Open Government.

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

The founder of early internet startup Freeloader (acquired for $38 million in 1996) and anti-spam company Brightmail (acquired for $370 million in 2004), Paul went on to pioneer the ride-hailing space. Yet despite literally patenting ride-hailing in 2000, his own venture, Sidecar, lost out to the more aggressive scaling of Uber and Lyft.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was. Social Networking is Becoming Mobile: FourSquare and Skout. ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google].