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Quattro Development Co-Founders Share Tips for Overcoming Mishaps in Real Estate Development

The Startup Magazine

The path to success is far from easy, which is a lesson Quattro Development’s founders, Rob Walters and Mike Liyeos, know all too well. After founding their real estate development firm during the Great Recession in 2008, the duo received a crash course in perseverance. Maybe getting some references,” Walters says.

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4 startups facilitating a borderless world

The Startup Magazine

Danish-based startup Inpay was formed after founder Jacob Tackmann Thomsen realized money donated to help orphaned children in Myanmar after 2008’s Cyclone Nargis would lose 5% to fees and take days to arrive. The post 4 startups facilitating a borderless world appeared first on The Startup Magazine.

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[Interview] Deekron Krikorian Of MotionTraxx

YoungUpstarts

I fell in love with Ibiza when I first went there in 2008 with some friends from Madrid. My cofounder, Jason Keck, heads up our tech and runs everything related to our app. The lesson there is that you can benefit from having a great cofounder. Jealous much. How did you come up with the idea to go to Ibiza and why?

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Invest in Israel Newsletter September 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

Newsweek magazine’s Best Countries survey ranked Israel among the best countries to live in, at the 22nd spot. The magazine rated 100 countries by how well they scored in five categories, namely: education, health, quality of life, economic dynamism, and political environment. P&G ACQUIRES ISRAELI MEDICAL DEVICE CO CONTIPI.

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10 of the Most Successful Investors of the Last 10 Years

The Startup Magazine

The global financial crisis started in 2007 and it went on for much of 2008. He started enjoying success in 2008 when Inc. Magazine ranked his company among the top 50 retail companies in the US. Peter is the founder of Bay Street Capital Partners. Guss is 28 years old and he is the co-founder of Octane Lending.

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Venture Capital Funding and the Sexism You Can’t Quite Prove

Up and Running

To draw titular inspiration from a New York Magazine article entitled Ellen Pao and the Sexism You Can’t Quite Prove (we’ll talk more about Pao later on), I entered into this topic less with the desire to try to “prove” a specific point, but rather to explore an issue that continues to rise to the top of conversation in the entrepreneurial space.

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Okay, I'm Creating Content How Do I Get Someone to Read It 2.

Duct Tape Marketing

Janine Popick Janine Popick is the CEO and co-founder of VerticalResponse (Inc. She is a columnist for Inc.com “Women in Business” and has been published in DM News as well featured in Entrepreneur Magazine, ClickZ, and B2B Magazine. Janine is VerticalResponse’s CEB (Chief Executive Blogger).