Growthink Blog

JULY 6, 2011

The company started in Chicago where it is based. Next it launched in cities including Atlanta, Denver, Dallas, San Diego, Phoenix and Seattle. Groupon, on the other hand, used the more traditional geographic expansion plan. It then expanded to serving New York City, Boston, Washington DC, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2015

It’s not just big in Dallas but in San Diego, Phoenix and Sacramento but also Boston, Chicago, Washington and of course San Francisco. and Chicago with regional warehouses in each territory and our technology makes it more efficient for them to do their daily pickups with least-cost routing.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 5, 2019

He lived in Nashville at the time, I lived in Phoenix. I’m in Chicago and it’s ten degrees and my furnace just broke, right? It was fun to do with him but, of course, it was half the work, that was kind of nice. About two years ago we came up with this idea for the book around the customer journey.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 23, 2011

The updated list of locations is below: Streaming Sponsor Africa Cape Town, South Africa: [link] Asia Chennai, India: [link] Pune, India: [link] Europe Athens, Greece: [link] Barcelona, Spain: [link] Belfast, Northern Ireland: [link] Berlin, Germany: [link] Brescia, Italy: [link] Brighton, England, UK: [link] Brussels, Belgium: [link] Bucharest, Romania: (..)

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2018

At the time of its incorporation (2001), I had seen an article published by the University of Chicago showing that 82 % of CEOs had revenue growth as their #1 objective. So it was clear that we were focusing on a topic that had mass attention. To be completely honest, I had quite a hard time coming up with my business name.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 20, 2011

Here's the latest list: Streaming Sponsor Africa Cape Town, South Africa: [link] Asia Chennai, India: [link] Pune, India: [link] Europe Barcelona, Spain: [link] Belfast, Northern Ireland: [link] Berlin, Germany: [link] Brescia, Italy: [link] Brighton, England, UK: [link] Brussels, Belgium: [link] Bucharest, Romania: [link] Cambridge, UK: [link] Cluj-Napoca, (..)

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

14 years later, our company is 110+ employees strong, housed in TWO buildings in the Chicago suburbs, and we’re continuing to challenge the status quo in the promo products industry, just like we’ve been doing since day one! Fortunately, we don’t work out of my basement anymore! I took a chance and bought it that day!

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2015

Soon, we were getting referrals in states (outside of Phoenix, where I was at the time) and instead of telling those clients no (because I realized if I said no, they would find someone else) I flew to the different areas, reached out to my network and would hire and train sitters in those cities. Thanks to Jacob Lumby, Cashcowcouple.com !

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