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Q&A with Bobby Genovese, Why This Executive Is So Big on Florida Ecotourism

Hearpreneur

BG Parks was established to help conserve the environment and protect important parcels of land by partnering with several state parks in Florida. Our annual car and boat rallies have raised more than $20 million since we began in 2007. You’ve got to look forward and ask yourself: how do I achieve my long-term goals?

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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

They also note that after the 2007 recession—when things looked grim for the U.S. The organization is designed so that it can function generally as an LLC would, while legally accepting foundation grants because of the organization’s socially beneficial goals. According to the Harvard Business Review, in most U.S.

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The Growth of the Food Truck Industrial Complex | Student Entrepreneurs In On Craze

Campus Entrepreneurship

Richard Florida pointed me to a really interesting story in the Atlantic by Christine MacDonald on the growth of the food truck industrial complex. Its business began to shift toward the more upscale mobile food emporiums in 2007, says Arthur Djahani, general manager of Armenco Cater Truck Manufacturing Co.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

In 2007, I left my career to become a stay-at-home mom. I opened Imagine Realty in Florida as a response to big brokerages’ lack of genuine care for their REALTORS. As a training program designer and facilitator, I would create highly engaging and very saleable programs for the three companies I worked for over those years.

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Open Letter to a New Austinite

Austin Startup

Since at least 2007, Austin has been the fastest growing metro area in America. And, in 2002, when Richard Florida published “Rise of the Creative Class,” Austin was a city that outperformed similar sized cities in large part due to droves of creative professionals wanting to live here.

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You’re Not a Real Entrepreneur

Steve Blank

The company established their new PC division (called Entry Systems), as a Skunk Works in Boca Raton Florida a 1000 miles from IBM headquarters. This small group consisted of 12 engineers and designers under the direction of Don Estridge. Irfan started off with 100 such rickshaws in 2007 and have 300,000 today.

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Can You Trust the “Science” of Optimization?

ConversionXL

Well, scientists have struggled to reproduce the effects of several studies about priming, including this notorious study (mentioned by Malcolm Gladwell in his book Blink ) where participants were “primed” with words like “Florida” and “bingo” then were observed walking more slowly—like the elderly. But we can still trust Cialdini, right?