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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #7: A call to action for CEOs on selling

Austin Startup

I just need “coin-operated” people to sell it for me. Thanks to our head of sales, Michael Osborne, and his mysterious green soccer ball, we adopted the color green as a symbol of “we are all in this together, we will achieve our goals together, we are all selling”. These excuses range from: The product is beautiful.

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Bolstering the Partner Ranks at GRP

Both Sides of the Table

GRP’s biggest winners over the years have not only come from LA (Overture, CitySearch, TrueCar) but from Chicago (Envestnet, Ulta), Las Vegas (HDI), Baltimore (BillMeLater), New York (DealerTrack), London (LastMinute.com) and other locations. This is exactly the brand that GRP Partners wants to embody. Community builders.

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So You Want to Start a Cannabis Business: Advice for the Absolute Beginner

Up and Running

Generally, when someone thinks about types of cannabis businesses, dispensaries and grow operations usually come to mind. But the cannabis industry is much more than just grow operations and dispensaries. When starting a business in any industry, having a unique idea that fills an unmet need is crucial to becoming a success.

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Smells Like Money: The Business of Waste Management

Up and Running

With the bright lights of Las Vegas reflecting in his rearview mirror, Keith Ferguson listened to his wife, Cheryl, who was convincing him to finally start his own business. This would ultimately be the advantage Keith had, and still has, in running a smaller operation: relationships mean more to the owner and the customer.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

This was the first spot, the Hoover Dam in Las Vegas. As I said, I have a very small operation and I’m able to make much more than the average person. It was 2003 or right about then, and I was walking across the Green Street Mall in Brisbane, thinking that I was no longer interested in Magic the Gathering as a card game.