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28 Entrepreneurs Share Their Tips and Tricks of Staying Motivated

Hearpreneur

This fuels your hunger, and you learn to want more of the same, and so you search for the next accomplishment, no matter what or how small that might be. When I started my company in 2005, I spent too many years working so much both IN and ON the business that I burned out. Photo Credit: Charlotte Maumus.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I now am the CEO and founder of Berri Properties in Asheville and Charlotte, NC. in December of 2004 with just our one little product, and by the end of 2005 we had sold 1 million Finders Key Purse(r). I searched everywhere and because I couldn’t find what I was looking for, I decided to make one, a leather laptop case.

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U.S. Venture Capital Has Its Biggest Quarter Since Dot-Com Days

allthingsd.com

Search » Featured Posts. Robert Half Technology - Charlotte, NC. © 2005-2012 Dow Jones & Company Inc. View all videos » api-video/find_all_videos.asp&fields=id,thumbnailURL,guid,video320kMP4Url,name,duration&count=4&doctype=128&type=allthingsd-section&query=Network+Effect. Featured Reviews. Bentonville, AR.

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What’s The One Thing That Creates High User Engagement?

ConversionXL

The concept is not new – Bryan Eisenberg discussed this already in 2005 when he wrote about website scent trails. As Eisenberg put it, “Creating and preserving intentional scent trails on your site translates to improved ROI for your paid and organic search terms.”. Message match. What Is “Scent” Anyway? Sounds legit.

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How to pivot away $34m: Israel’s Xeround shuts it doors with a lesson

The Next Web

Xeround was founded in 2005 by Sharon Barkai – founder of Sheer networks, which was eventually sold to Cisco , and Dr. Gilad Zlotkin – founder of Class Data, also sold to Cisco. Charlotte Yarkoni – a senior exec at Amdocs, was asked to take over as CEO, and see if she could turn Xeround into a sort of ‘mini Amdocs’.

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