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How One Woman’s Flat Tire Inspired A Global Trucking Movement

YoungUpstarts

She continues to attract fellow visionaries from global corporations to guide and fuel her vehicle for helping women. Keith Martino is head of CMI, a global consultancy founded in 1999 that customizes leadership and sales development initiatives. She doesn’t need to be the smartest person in the room. Step on it Ellen!

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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

I started my first company in 1999 and was admittedly swept up in all of this: Magazine covers, fancy conferences, artificial valuations and easy money. SEEING THINGS FROM THE VC SIDE OF THE TABLE While I was a VC in 2007 & 2008 those were dead years because the market again evaporated due the the Global Financial Crisis (GFC).

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Consider Emerging Markets for Your Global Expansion

Transformify

Globalization is the most significant challenge facing multinational firms today, especially in the emerging markets of Russia, Brazil, China, and Mexico. However, global businesses evaluate a variety of considerations before expanding their operations into a new market. Emerging Markets As The Pocket Full Of Potential.

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Why Bitcoin can never be a global currency

Start Up Blog

Crypto will change commerce and global adoption of cryptocurrencies is, in my view, inevitable. Now it appears that it will never be stable, hence removing its chances of ever being the global currency it has been touted to be. Australia had a currency change as recently as 1966 and the Euro arrived only in 1999.

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Why Corporate Dysfunction Is Deadly

YoungUpstarts

Keith Martino is head of CMI, a global consultancy founded in 1999 that customizes leadership and sales development initiatives. An old comic strip called Smokey the Bear promoted the slogan “Only you can prevent forest fires!” Start today.

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Leadership Failure! What Will It Cost You?

YoungUpstarts

Keith Martino is head of CMI, a global consultancy founded in 1999 that customizes leadership and sales development initiatives. Don’t gamble on your losses with a leadership failure like Mediocre Mike. The bar tab will leave you with a hangover that may cost you your company’s reputation.

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[Review] An Innocent Story

YoungUpstarts

Embodying the informal, casual wit of the company, the founding of Innocent is summarized on their website in the form of a charming story as follows: “We started innocent in 1999 after selling our smoothies at a music festival.