The Entrepreneurial Mind

JUNE 16, 2014

Kentucky Fried Chicken first came to Vietnam in 1997 through the vision of Singapore entrepreneur and franchisee Tony Chew. Franchise success stories in ASEAN countries,” HSBC Global Connections, January 2, 2014, https://globalconnections.hsbc.com/us/en/articles/franchise-success-stories-asean-countries</.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Since I first wrote about the Golden Age in 2014, valuations for tech companies have only increased?—?rather I was fortunate to live in Silicon Valley for six years before moving to “Silicon Hills” in 1997?—?having DFS was formed in 1997 to provide Dell customers the best financing options. rather dramatically.

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The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Teenage spend is down overall – one survey says down 31% from 1997-2014. Spend less money on fashion (down from 45% to 38% of teenage spend 2005-2015) and more on technology (up from 4% to 8% of spend) and food (up from 7% to 22% of spend). Surveys also show that they care less about fashion.

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Board Effect

JANUARY 9, 2024

First celebrated in 2014, it is now observed in over 89 countries on 6 continents. 11/13: Created by the World Kindness Movement in 1997, World Kindness Day is now celebrated around the globe with the simple mission of creating a kinder world. 2/27: World NGO Day celebrates non-governmental and nonprofit organizations.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 31, 2014

In 2014, it’s easy to reflect on what has happened over the last seven years and feel good about it. The prior fund that I had co-founded – Mobius Venture Capital – had blown up after having a very successful first fund in 1997.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 3, 2017

states for fastest growth in the number of women-owned businesses — a number that grew by 98 percent between 1997 and 2014. We must point out that a big part of what makes Austin such a thriving hub is the fact that it’s in the middle of Texas.Texas ranks number 2 among U.S.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

Looking more closely at the pacing of the funds Austin Ventures raised in the table below, it also got caught up in the Dot Com frenzy, raising new, much larger funds almost every year from 1997–2001.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 26, 2015

In fact, according to American Express OPEN, between 1997 and 2014 the number of women-owned businesses in the U.S. O’Reilly, PsyD, author of “ Leading Women: 20 Influential Women Share Their Secrets to Leadership, Business, and Life “ For women, the picture has never been rosier.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Publishers and authors (like O’Reilly and us) also benefit from Amazon’s success.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

Extremely-Sharp.com originally started with a few retail locations in 1997, and we quickly started the e-commerce site the next year. 2014, Believing in me, I took a leap starting my own company. Karibu Markets began after a trip I took to Kenya in early 2014. Our lifestyle has elements of freshness and originality.

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ConversionXL

MAY 31, 2017

The first wave of messaging software arrived with ICQ (launched in 1996), followed by AIM (1997), Yahoo! That was up from 30% in 2014. Let’s be clear: Messaging isn’t some new, hot trend or magical technology. It’s been around since the mid-1990s. Messenger (1998), and MSN/Windows Live Messenger (1999).

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2015

When Infolinks ran a survey in 2014 of which ad units were “seen” the most by users, using eye-tracking , they found that above the fold ads placed on the left hand side performed second best with a 73% visibility (first best being the ads near the top with 80% visibility). In such cases, try placing ads on the left hand side of the content.

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