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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1- Provide pet owners with the information and education. Why do you have tiered SEO packages? SEO should be all-inclusive, and affordable. In 1997 at just 42 years old, I suffered a massive heart attack that landed me in the ICU.

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The Ultimate CEO Twitter List

YoungUpstarts

Legendary tech entrepreneurs, startup celebrities, and even the creators of Twitter itself are on the service. photomatt : Social media entrepreneur Matt Mullenweg is doing a little bit of everything these days, tweeting about his roles with WordPress, Automattic, Akismet, and more.

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Inside Amazon’s plan to dominate advertising business in 2019

The Next Web

Amazon’s unrelenting efficiency, obsession with automation, and brutal pricing strategies have helped it disrupt or dominate industry after industry, which began with books way back in 1997. Over the next year, it’s bringing those tactics to bear on the organization’s latest target: the advertising industry.

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4 key traits retailers need to adopt to thrive in 2018

The Next Web

Though Kohn and Sting got the party started, the age of ecommerce didn’t truly begin in earnest until 1997. On August 11, 1994, the first ever ecommerce transaction occurred when a 21-year-old in New Hampshire named Dan Kohn sold a copy of Sting’s Ten Summoner’s Tales to a friend in Philadelphia who paid $12.48 by credit card.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight On IIT Kharagpur, India

ReadWriteStart

My 1997 recruitment visit met with tepid response, with the student body largely interested in multinational placements at the time. It gives me great satisfaction to observe this evolution, and play a small role in shepherding these young entrepreneurs along. Please note that I work exclusively with 1M/1M entrepreneurs.

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The rise of the “successful” unsustainable company

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Witness, for example, this terrific Fast Company article on Bill Nguyen , serial entrepreneur who’s seventh startup “Color” famously raised $41m for a new mobile app before it even launched. Freeloader — On $3m invested, sold for $38m in 1996 — shut down in 1997. The launch, by the way, was a failure.

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