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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

For nearly 15 years I had analytical, numbers-driven jobs in finance and banking, working for some of the world’s largest banks. Greene, Land Carroll & Blair PC ! #20 We use a patented, proprietary ingredient Floralux which is naturally derived from chlorophyll (the green stuff in plants). Image Credit: Nancy D.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

Both Sides of the Table

Last night I had the great privilege to interview Bill Gross , one of the Internet’s true pioneers. He took out an ad in the Yellow Pages (it was the early 80′s, pre Internet), which cost him $1,000 / month for a half-page ad. If it worked in the Yellow Pages, why not on the Internet? Cars Direct / Internet Brands.

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

Amazon saw that the internet would change retail. If O’Reilly had that same insight in 1995, it could have been an amazing blitzscaling opportunity. Thanks to the internet and other globalizing technologies, the entire world has entered the Networked Age. Nowhere in our book do we recommend that all entrepreneurs blitzscale.

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These are the British Businesses Adopting Green and Sustainable Practices

The Startup Magazine

It appears as though consumer demand is motivating businesses to become more sustainable which is reinforced by government green tax breaks for energy-efficient SMEs. www.arcolatheatre.com/about/green. This was the start of the Green Arcola project, which began in 2007, that today has become a whole new enterprise of its own.

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