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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

BMW introduced subscription fees for their cars, creating revolutionary changes in the conservative automotive community. Joe Coulombe had an idea after running a small chain of convenience stores in southern California. When Koum was young, his poor family emigrated to California from Ukraine. #16- Subscription service by BMW.

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Out of the Crisis #13: Alpha Lee on remembering the 2003 SARS epidemic and his opensource COVID-19 Moonshot

Startup Lessons Learned

We are in Santa Clara, California, still holding up well. First in Wuhan, China, and then the fact that it can spread so quickly in Italy and continental Europe really surprises me and I think a lot of others as well in the scientific community. Alpha Lee : Yeah, it's been good so far. Eric Ries : Amen to that. Alpha Lee : Yeah.

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HOW TO: Connect with Other Entrepreneurs Online

mashable.com

Anyone in the community can edit posts and frequent users are allowed to vote irrelevant questions off the site. PartnerUp If you have a question that can be expressed in fewer than 140 characters, the PartnerUp community will likely have an answer. Has anybody else used this site yet? I have been so focused on traditional mediums.

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How One Startup Combines Boston’s B2B Sense with the Valley’s Social Media Style

View from Seed

First: They’re all based in California, and more specifically, in San Francisco, Mountain View, and Menlo Park, respectively. They’re All in California. At Alignable, we see this as a huge opportunity, and so we consider ourselves a Boston company trying to “pull off a California,” if you will. Any of these ring a bell?

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Cracking The Code: Happy New Year 2008!

Cracking the Code

Wize provides consumers with a unique way to leverage the online wisdom by aggregating the opinions of millions of users and by letting people ask questions about a specific product or need to the Wize community. California Avenue, Suite 110 Sunnyvale, CA 94086 T: 408-215-4627 ext. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing.

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How to Run Effective Online Sweepstakes Campaigns

ConversionXL

Create a new community channel for customer interaction, provide updates, and generate news. Viral aspect of the campaign: The more sharing, the more points, and the greater the chances of winning in both the weekly and main prize (luxury all-inclusive weekend in Vihula Manor) draws. Before you start. Borderless world. 6600+ new fans.

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Out of the Crisis #12: Curative founder Fred Turner and Celine Halioua on diagnostic supply chains, scaling up testing, and partnering with government

Startup Lessons Learned

By now, the new company they formed called The Curative has performed something like 20% of all COVID tests in the state of California. There's been a real sense of community built in the company that I think has been helpful in getting everybody through. Eric Ries : Celine, how about you? Celine Halioua : Yeah. Fred Turner : Yes.