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9 Common Things that Stunt Business Growth (and What to Do about Them)

ConversionXL

Before we get to that though, I asked my LinkedIn connections about the #1 thing holding back their companies. It’s clear from the 80+ answers that many things hold companies back, so consider these nine a starting point in your quest to improve your business. (As The sales team may focus on closing sales.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

The project was a little unexpected – creating customer cereal boxes called Obama-Os and Cap’n McCains, timely for the 2008 elections. The sales helped them raise $30K and the attention of a startup incubator, which offered them training and another $20K in funding. This raised the company's name, despite all controversies.

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Can your employees recruit from a customer or supplier?

Berkonomics

One of your employees is approached by an employee of a customer or of a supplier, stating that “It sure would be great to work in your company.” The rule should be one that includes only one “out”: if a person resigns from the position with the stake-holding company, then you will be happy to talk about a position.

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Quickly Unpacking Microsoft’s Acquisition Of GitHub

Haystack

With nearly 30M users, over 85M code repositories, and marquee technology customers like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Apple, among others, GitHub’s ubiquity made it invaluable. Let’s quickly unpack what makes the deal interesting: 1/ “Developers, Developers, Developers!” The infamous Ballmer anthem was right after all.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

The company emerged from stealth in November 2016 and announced a $100 million investment round from Sir Ronald Cohen, Lloyd Dorfman, OCAPAC Holding Company, and Horizons Ventures. The company’s tech predicts the right app and location to present an ad based on user and cohort behaviour.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 20: Nayeem Hussain and Will Zell

Steve Blank

He previously founded N&N Investments LLC, a real estate investment holding company; and is a program leader and fellow of the Startup Leadership Program. . He stressed that your product and company vision needs to match your appetite for funding: One thing that we learned very early on was, have a plan for fund-raising. …

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California’s New Privacy Act Puts the Crunch on Small Businesses

The Startup Magazine

When it went into effect on January 1, 2020, the CCPA gave the United States its strictest regulations yet for protecting customer information. Consumers should feel better about their privacy and the stringent rules that hold companies responsible for protecting their personal information. By Venkat Ramasamy, COO, FileCloud.