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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

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Airbnb founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia had difficulty securing funding, so they launched a mini project to build some funds and catch investors' attention. Using this capital , the founders launched and enjoyed exponential growth in their first year, with 10K users and thousands of listings. Photo Credit: Jack Underwood.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight On IIT Kharagpur, India

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Today's roundtable was jointly organized by the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (IIT KGP) and the 1M/1M program as part of the former's Global Entrepreneurship Summit organized by the student-run e-cell. Clearly, the solution offers some concrete value, and conceivably, OMS can look at the global market later on in their evolution.

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The Ultimate CEO Twitter List

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@jack : Twitter founder Jack Dorsey is on Twitter as well, sharing updates from his work as the CEO of Square. dens : Co-founder and CEO of Foursquare Dennis Crowley gets personal on his Twitter account, sharing his interests in soccer and hidden urban art. MichaelDell : Follow Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO of Dell.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

Despite the ongoing recession, I took to my kitchen table in 2013 to launch Digital Air Strike — an award-winning automotive social media and digital engagement company. Tapping into my knowledge of and experience in automotive marketing, I identified a need to monetize social networks for businesses. 6) Abolish a Phenomena.

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The Future of Television & The Digital Living Room

Both Sides of the Table

Michael Ovitz , the co-founder of CAA will be the keynote speaker. Attempts at “moving up the stack&# – In 1997 I led a project to help senior management at British Telecom define its Internet strategy. British, India & Pakistani ex-pats on a global scale want to watch cricket.