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SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Co-founder Tan and editor Terence Lee will join Tech in Asia’s editorial team. “We had many small coffee chats with Gwen and her team which slowly led to today’s acquisition,” said Tech in Asia founder Willis Wee. “We admire SGE’s spirit of producing quality content with a very small team.

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APRIL 30, 2018

by Adam Witty, Founder and CEO of Advantage | ForbesBooks. As a business book publisher who’s been working with entrepreneurs and CEOs for over a decade, I can tell you that there are stories I heard in 2005 that have stayed with me and some from last week that I’ve all but forgotten. Without one, it fades into the background.

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JULY 16, 2018

by Adam Witty, Founder and CEO of Advantage | ForbesBooks and author of “ Authority Marketing: How to Leverage 7 Pillars of Thought Leadership to Make Competition Irrelevant “. It wasn’t a dorm room, but I did start my now multimillion-dollar company in 2005 in a spare bedroom of my house just two years out of college.

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OCTOBER 4, 2016

by Stephen Sheinbaum, founder of Bizfi. Stephen Sheinbaum founded Bizfi as Merchant Cash and Capital in 2005. As an entrepreneur, your days will be filled with surprises and unexpected lessons. You must manage through them, correcting course as necessary, to keep realizing your vision for your company.

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MARCH 21, 2017

by Stephen Sheinbaum, founder of Bizfi. Stephen Sheinbaum is the founder of Bizfi , the leading fintech company with a platform that combines aggregation, funding and a marketplace for small businesses, and has more than 25 years of financial technology experience building companies and launching products within organizations.

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JANUARY 13, 2017

by Stephen Sheinbaum, founder of Bizfi. Stephen Sheinbaum is the founder of Bizfi , an aggregation marketplace that offers many kinds of alternative funding, from short-term finance to longer term loans, equipment finance and lines of credit. Every entrepreneur starts out with dreams of success.

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JUNE 22, 2011

That was the challenge faced by former real estate agent Alex Joseph, co-founder of Nuviva Medical Weight Loss Clinics, now a growing franchise operation based in Florida. “We We didn’t start out the way we ended up,” said Joseph, Nuviva ’s founder. “In

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NOVEMBER 20, 2015

by David Adams, founder of HomeSuite. When we think of giving back to the community, we often think of dramatic relief efforts like those that supported the victims of Hurricane Katrina back in 2005. After the floods devastated New Orleans, companies like Wal-Mart and Pfizer pledged millions in money and services to aid victims.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

by Paul Blanchard, author of founder and principal consultant of Right Angles and author of “ Fast PR: Give Yourself a Huge Media Boost “ Here’s the surprise about PR: getting great media coverage is as much about knowing what not to do than it is about knowing what to do. If you need to regroup, step back to refocus and learn.

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APRIL 13, 2016

By Danielle Tate, Author of “ Elegant Entrepreneur: The Female Founders Guide to Starting & Growing Your First Company “ Three years ago Sheryl Sandberg challenged women to “ lean in ,” but we are leaning into the wrong career path if our goal is power and happiness.

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DECEMBER 11, 2013

Likely encouraged by various government schemes to grow the games and animation sector , the Singapore video games industry in recent years have expanded rapidly, growing from $87 million in 2005 to $285 million in 2007. It took the team of 20 some 14 months to develop both games, said Don Sim, the co-founder and CEO of Daylight Studios.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

In 2005, I succeeded – and it has been upward and onward ever since. Advice For The Young At Heart business advice Marsha Friedman startup success women entrepreneurs women founders' I had to make drastic cuts, including letting go beloved employees. Building my business has been one of the most rewarding experiences in my life.

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DECEMBER 12, 2013

Also, at the head of these ambitious ventures is the founder, taking on the tasks of the CEO, president, and even a few other executive positions rolled together in one hyper-stressful package. This was most eloquently put by the late and great Steve Jobs in a commencement address at Stanford in 2005. Be The Hungry Wolf.

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OCTOBER 20, 2014

By Jonathan Barsade, founder and CEO of Exactor. million in 1955 to over 9 million words in 2005. Jonathan Barsade is founder and CEO of Exactor, Inc., DIY (“Do-It-Yourself”) is a great idea when the task requires minimal expertise and failure will result in minimal damage.

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AUGUST 20, 2015

No one put this better than Steve Jobs in his commencement speech at Stanford in 2005, after his diagnosis with the pancreatic cancer: “Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life…” he said. Suddenly, you will be busy with balance.

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OCTOBER 2, 2017

by Walt Capell, founder of General Liability Shop . After starting General Liability Shop in 2005 Walt has developed a reputation of providing forward-thinking, out-of-the-box products and solutions for business owners. The more you can help, the more likely that help will come back to your business in the future.

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JULY 25, 2013

This compressed workweek ranked as the most common method of adopting a summer schedule among businesses in a 2005 Society for Human Resource Management survey. Mr. Sloane was the founder and President of Aegis Capital Markets, a consumer loan origination and securitization business. For example, if you let employees leave at 1 p.m.

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JUNE 23, 2013

Shopify itself was started as an online shop in 2004 selling snowboard equipment out of a garage by its founders. “So, in 2005, we launched our very own platform. “So, in 2005, we launched our very own platform. “It all began with the intention of scratching our own itch, really.

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JUNE 28, 2012

million in 2005. Google is one of the largest companies in the world and its founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, are some of the richest entrepreneurs to date. Founder Blake Mycoskie created TOMS with the original intention that for every pair of shoes sold, a new pair would go to a child in need.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The founders sold the two year old company to eBay in 2005 for $2.6 While each situation is unique, a pattern you may be noticing here is that founders of unprofitable startups tend to fare better when their businesses are sold. . - Highly profitable. This startup offered free peer to peer on-line phone service. Unprofitable.

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AUGUST 13, 2012

In June 2012, Fanning and fellow Napster co-founder Sean Parker launched a new live social video mirco-sharing platform called Airtime. The phrase “reddit” came to RedditM co-founder Alexis Ohanian while in the library of the University of Virginia in 2005. Insomnia Cookies.

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MAY 7, 2012

Lauren Bush at Under30CEO , April 21, 2011 : Lauren Bush, co-founder of FEED Projects, discusses how she applied her entrepreneurial skills to the nonprofit, social justice sector. Watch this video with the site’s founder and CEO where he talks about how he launched everything solo and wound up with an entire company built around one idea.

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AUGUST 21, 2012

As founders of Barefoot Cellars, the company that transformed the image of American wine from staid and unimaginative to fun, lighthearted, and hip — and we owe it all to this unconventional method of marketing. won’t support an ad campaign?

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MAY 21, 2012

Simply put, smart businesses tend to follow the money, and sometimes that means growing into a business the founders hadn’t ever imagined. We haven’t seen any records for sale in their stores, but in 2005, The Gap paired up with Apple to give iTunes music downloads to customers who tried on a pair of Gap jeans. Berkshire Hathaway.

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APRIL 24, 2013

We speak to the founders of Imaginary Friends Studios (IFS) team – 28-year old Kai Lim, 39-year old Stanley Artgerm Lau, and 31-year old Kendrick Lim (pictured above)- about hitting the big eight. Stanley Artgerm Lau: I am a co-founder and creative director of IFS. Tell us a little about yourself.

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OCTOBER 19, 2012

Co-founder) Bonnie and I were originally so strapped for cash that when we began making our wine in the mid-’80s, our administrative office was the laundry room of a rented farmhouse in Sonoma County, California. Trust me, I know what it’s like to try to start a business when you’re basically broke. (Co-founder)

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AUGUST 16, 2011

“There had to be a scalable and smarter way for people to handle and pay their bills, especially helping them to stop their paper bills, says co-founder Narulla. But the founders admit they’ve been extremely fortunate to ride the trends which has helped them get to this place. The Journey.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2016

by Stephen Sheinbaum, founder of Bizfi. Stephen Sheinbaum is the founder of Bizfi , the premier fintech company combining aggregation, funding and a participation marketplace on a single platform for small businesses. Founded in 2005, Bizfi and its family of companies have provided more than $1.9

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MARCH 3, 2013

The Singapore video games industry grew from $87 million in 2005 to $285 million in 2007 , and the sector currently comprises of around 60 games development, publishing and services-related companies, featuring various major global industry players such as Electronic Arts, LucasArts, Tecmo Koei, and Ubisoft. The co-founders believe it is.

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DECEMBER 6, 2012

My partner Bonnie Harvey and I are the founders of Barefoot Cellars, the company that transformed the image of American wine from staid and unimaginative to fun, lighthearted, and hip. I know firsthand what it takes to bootstrap a business from the ground up.

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APRIL 5, 2013

by Alvaro Fernandez, founder of SharpBrains. Technology has completely changed the practice of medicine, providing incredible imaging techniques and data that now play a key role in treating injuries and illnesses. Sophisticated tools give researchers amazing new insights that advance our understanding of human anatomy, including the brain.

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MAY 12, 2015

By Adam Simpson , CEO and co-founder, Easy Office Phone. Under Simpson’s leadership, Easy Office Phone has grown rapidly and steadily into a highly respected provider of Hosted PBX service to clients throughout Canada and North America, since its launch in 2005. A day in the life of an entrepreneur is never usually a quiet one.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2011

But back in 2005, social media was not as prominent as it is today, and it took a tsunami for social media to earn its status as an equal player in news-gathering. Twitter is one such tool, and co-founder Evan Williams offers great insight into the knowledge of Twitter users. Alexis Ohanian: How to make a splash in social media.

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