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21 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Henry Sy, the guy behind the world-famous SM Malls, is a household name in the Philippines. He has also been named CEO of the Shark Group, a brand consultancy firm. He then went on to build an eCommerce giant from his apartment. Trader's Joe is his store's name. She started HuffPo in 2005 when it was relatively unknown.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials: Introduction

Austin Startup

Lucky7 is named after my mom , who was an amazing woman and entrepreneur herself. We would build the “voice of the marketplace” (Bazaarvoice was named after Chapter 4 of The Cluetrain Manifesto , the most important marketing chapter of any book I’ve read, as I discussed in What’s in a name? ). this was 2005.

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How to Find Inspiration in Doubt

Duct Tape Marketing

In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Kara Goldin, the founder, and CEO of Hint Water, a flavored water brand founded in 2005. Have you ever tried to find a domain name and been given the message, “Sorry, that domain name is already taken!”? Marketing Podcast with Kara Goldin. You are not alone!

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #13: To be stealthy or not?

Austin Startup

Everyone in the eCommerce industry, including the Shop.org community, was wondering what company I would found next. and funny enough, they were initially in stealth too with their first company name being Pufferfish. They were also serial entrepreneurs, having founded the eCommerce site Fogdog.com before. The content is genius.]

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Netflix vs. Blockbuster and bad profits (reflections from my Bazaarvoice days)

Austin Startup

In honor of Netflix’s big beat today in the very unfortunate age of COVID-19, I decided to revisit my four-part Bazaarblog series while I was CEO of Bazaarvoice (from our inception in 2005 to our IPO in 2012). The name of the last part? what was going to really make social work in an eCommerce environment. But I digress.

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Who’s Your Daddy? 5 Lessons from GoDaddy

Growthink Blog

At the time, a company called Network Solutions was essentially the only place from which people could register domain names. In 2005, GoDaddy.com became the world’s largest ICANN-accredited registrar on the internet. It offers a number of services including website hosting and ecommerce solutions.

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

He is an active angel with many successful angel investments including: Rent.com, (purchased by Ebay in 2005 for $415 million), Golfnow.com (purchased by Comcast in June 2008), and Lifelock (lead investors include Bessemer Venture Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers). Moderator: Robert Savage, CEO, Track.com.