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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

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Airbnb founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia had difficulty securing funding, so they launched a mini project to build some funds and catch investors' attention. The project was a little unexpected – creating customer cereal boxes called Obama-Os and Cap’n McCains, timely for the 2008 elections. Photo Credit: Rob Greene.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

After a year in the market, MakeSpace was growing rapidly and our biggest issue was CAC (customer acquisition costs) relative to payback period (when we get our marketing investment back) and relative to LTV (lifetime value). But that’s harder to build in 2016 than it was in say 2005. Our centralization is their achilles heel.

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

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SAP Global Trade Services, SAP R/3, Other Technologies / ITO Agreements / IT Intel ABC has created a custom application server using Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle WebLogic Server called ABC Unified Strategic Information Optimization Network, or FUSION. Citrix Presentation Server 4.0, Citrix Presentation Server 4.5, Oracle PeopleSoft 8.9,

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7 Entrepreneurs Share How They?re Incorporating Corporate Service Responsibility (CSR) In Their Businesses

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Corporate Social Responsibility is no longer a ‘nice to have’ for large companies – it’s becoming a requirement for every business that wants to build lasting customer loyalty amongst today’s mission-drive consumer base. 5- Simple model. Photo Credit: Clayton Miller. Our model is simple. 6- Employee volunteering.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

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Photo Credit: Sheryl Green. Thanks to Sheryl Green, Sheryl Green Speaks ! #3- I was working hard to climb the ladder in the car business and had been helping customers at work with budgeting, and building their credit. But this time, despite all of my efforts, I wasn’t able to secure a job.

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5 Hot Ecommerce Trends to Watch

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Chris Andrasick, CEO of Tacit Knowledge , believes that the mom-and-pop advantage extends beyond customer loyalty, and that there is in fact a logistical advantage, as well. “Ads and offers will appear on other pages the potential customer is viewing.”. Image courtesy of iStockphoto , iPandastudio , logorilla. Flag this comment.

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Y Combinator's First Batch: Where Are They Now?

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Seven long years ago, in 2005, Paul Graham had dinner with a bunch of college kids. While not every startup born in that experiment back in 2005 is still going today, their founders have arguably all found success. In fact, Loopt was itself acquired earlier this year, by banking company Green Dot for $43.4 Eight little seeds.