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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

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: Rob Greene.

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How to Get Funding from Billionaire Investor Mark Cuban and Other Stories

Up and Running

Rob Biederman, co-founder of HourlyNerd, has a funding story that wouldn’t be out of place in a movie. How a law firm got funded thanks to partners that wouldn’t give up. In 2003, Ben Luftman, fresh out of law school, started Luftman, Heck & Associates, LLP, with partner, Jeremy Heck. Turn to your state.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. So I cut the corporate cord and co-founded Finespun Clothing. Thanks to Dean Cycon, Dean’s Beans Organic Coffee Co. ! #19 Greene, Land Carroll & Blair PC ! #20 Floralux is what makes our Restore Gel green. I was mostly just doing.

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Telling Your Brand Story Through Packaging Design: These 3 Businesses Are Doing It Right

crowdSPRING Blog

Victoria Greene of BrandPackaging.com explains : The way a product is packaged can create a dynamic, engaging story about your brand, drawing upon a multitude of features. Lee Fredericksen, Managing Partner at Hinge Marketing explains : A brand promise is an extension of a company’s positioning. Charlotte’s Web.

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Telling Your Brand Story Through Packaging Design: These 3 Businesses Are Doing It Right

crowdSPRING Blog

Victoria Greene of BrandPackaging.com explains : The way a product is packaged can create a dynamic, engaging story about your brand, drawing upon a multitude of features. Lee Fredericksen, Managing Partner at Hinge Marketing explains : A brand promise is an extension of a company’s positioning. Charlotte’s Web.

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Playing with Glass – Changing (and Saving) Lives (Part 2)

Up and Running

Catch up on Part 1 of his “Playing with Glass” series, this is Part 2… It was 2003, 10 years ago, but I remember meeting Larry Page like it was yesterday. Entrepreneur Zack Price was selected to be a Project Glass Explorer for Google. He said this. Imagine Tiger Woods, playing The Masters with them this past weekend.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. In Meebo’s case, for example, I was lucky enough to partner up with Elaine and Sandy. No looking for partnerships (who’s going to partner with you anyway?). and Google. No phone system.