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Ellison Eyewear the Multi-Billion $ Sunglass Industry

Hearpreneur

Ellison Eyewear offers designer quality sunglasses made in Greece using Italian components. Aristotle Loumis was born in Greece and grew up in Chicago, one of 8 children raised by a single parent. Aristotle still splits time between, Greece, Iowa, and Chicago, and refers to himself as “Greek born, city raised, and corn fed.”

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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

Both Sides of the Table

I show charts on housing, structural unemployment, home equity re-financings that we spent meaning less spending power post crash, new housing sales, debt-to-income ratios, public-sector job problems that will cause crises in cities and states across the US. Summary version? No chart was good. Yes, it seems to largely be thugs. My prognosis?

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European Real Estate in 2020: Cooling or Continued Growth?

The Startup Magazine

A December 19 th report by ING points towards a cooling of house price growth in 2020, with three exceptions: France, Italy, and Greece. Greece – a positive surprise. In 2019, the office letting market slowed down and might land in 2020, since the new year will see demand return to more conventional volumes. Germany and France lead.

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Accelerator Spotlight: nudgem

View from Seed

SK: I was born and raised in Athens, Greece and moved to Florida to pursue a Master’s degree in 2014. SK: I love the fact that every day is different and you get to work on all parts of the business, from Product to Sales and everything in between. . Get to know the founders. RH: Hello founder! Please introduce yourself.

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Twitter Link Roundup #197 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

Facebook Login Reduces Ecommerce Sales (Case Study) – crowdspring.co/15aPEmB. Facebook Login Reduces Ecommerce Sales (Case Study) – crowdspring.co/15aPEmB. SaaS Manifesto: Part Two – It’s Time to Build a Real Sales Team // Peter Levine – crowdspring.co/18qcZ2n. How to hire – crowdspring.co/15u6LKW.

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Why haven’t European investors fully accepted the ‘failure is good’ mentality yet?

The Next Web

With huge unemployment rates in countries like Spain, Greece and Portugal, coupled with risk-averseness and impractical education this leads to a circle of hopelessness. Failure plagues those who believe in the traditional business plan; the long-term planning model; the belief that sales and marketing numbers are facts.

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SuperMac War Story 6: Building The Killer Team – Mission, Intent.

Steve Blank

Five Easy Pieces – The Marketing Mission After a few months of talking to customers , talking to our channel and working with sales we defined the marketing Mission (our job) was to: Help Sales deliver $25 million in sales with a 45% gross margin. Two paragraphs, Five bullets. It didn’t take more.