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Home-Based Businesses – A Look Back In Time To 1985 And Beyond

YoungUpstarts

There wasn’t any internet or sending documents to clients via email back in the 80’s; it all required the physical transfer from person to person. Back in the day, even when you had clients and friends, you pretty much had to wing it when it came to learning, sharing and networking. Social media. Life was grand!

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How Top Venture Capitalists Create (and Sometimes Destroy) Portfolio Company Value

David Teten

Christopher Fralic is a Managing Partner at First Round Capital’s New York office, and has focused on a number of the firm’s investments in Advertising Technology, Social Media, Ecommerce, Gaming, Mobile and more. Previously he was CEO of Quigo Technologies, a contextual ad network, which he sold to AOL for a reported $340m+.

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The Ultimate CEO Twitter List

YoungUpstarts

@dennysantoso : Founder and CEO if SixReps.com Danny Santoso tweets all about social fitness, fat loss, and nutrition. brrhodes : IceRocket search engine founder and CEO Blake Rhodes tweets about his insights into social media and the online world.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

This was borne out of my personal frustrations in scouring the internet and needing to stitch together my own half-baked solutions. relevant traffic and social media engagement. In 1997 at just 42 years old, I suffered a massive heart attack that landed me in the ICU. 30- Social network for ideas.

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Monday night: HBS Angels of NY Investor Meeting and Company Presentations

David Teten

" Since 1997, Corporate University Xchange (CorpU) has armed senior executives with cutting edge talent improvement research and benchmarking. 650,000 people gain access to the Internet for the first time every day, 30,000 of which are in the U.S. Only 1 in 4 people has Internet access. Click here to buy tickets.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

At Blurb, we’ve built an Internet platform for people to produce their own bookstore-quality books. 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. That’s it. That’s what we do.

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What Is It That You’re ALWAYS Selling?

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

You see, the line of thought started from a forum discussion where people were talking about the now famous Internet marketing ‘ 30 Day Challenge ‘ by Ed Dale. It’s this article by Tom Peters I read way back in 1997 that shifted a paradigm in my business thinking, and got me working on a strategy to brand myself.