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Be Shareable

YoungUpstarts

by Tim Staples and Josh Young, co-authors of “ Break Through the Noise: The Nine Rules to Capture Global Attention “ I’d blown it. On the other side of the door was Cristiano Ronaldo, the global soccer superstar and one of the most famous people in the world. And he had just kicked me out. But by 2018, more than 1.3

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

The company didn’t turn a profit until 2003, but by 2005 business was booming – Netflix was shipping out a million DVDs daily. Reddit, a popular website for news and discussion, was founded in 2005 by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian. Thanks to Keith Terrell, Backpacks Global ! #14- Photo Credit: Jen Wan. 14- Polaroid.

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[Interview] Pekka Viljakainen, Author Of “No Fear: Business Leadership for the Digital Age” (Part I)

YoungUpstarts

In this interview, Viljakainen also shares some thoughts about entrepreneurship and globalization. In 2004-2005, I found out we were recruiting thousands of people I started to realize that many of these people who are coming in, those born after 1985 – they are behaving differently. This is Part I of the interview.

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Freelancing is the new normal: oDesk and the future of the workforce marketplace

The Next Web

Founded in 2005, the company has since delivered more than $1 billion from employers to freelancers. Managing an online distributed global team takes different set of skills, a different set of tools, it takes a different level of discipline. According to the last stats provided by oDesk itself, the company has 4.5 million jobs.

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The Top 10 Duct Tape Marketing Podcast Episodes for 2020

Duct Tape Marketing

Tim Staples is the CEO of Shareability and co-author of Break Through the Noise: The 9 Rules to Capture Global Attention. Kara Goldin is the founder and CEO of Hint Water, a flavored water brand founded in 2005. Shaina Weisinger is an expert in social media marketing, specifically optimizing content through repurposing.

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What The iPad Means For Media Distribution In The Future

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

For me, the real insight was how this device is going to change the game, is in the consumption of text based media. Back in 2005 I wrote about a Nokia web-enabled pad device , but it was a bit premature, with Apple once again looking to enter the market with the game-changer, though that’s no guarantee for the iPad at this stage.

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Why Business Relationships Take More Than Texting, Friending, And Online “Connecting”

YoungUpstarts

It’s official: Email, texting, and social media are no longer just helpful supplemental business tools. Social media and technology do have their place, but they are not, and never will be, a substitute for in-person interaction. Of course, in a global economy, face-to-face meetings are expensive. Trust is at an all-time low.