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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

The sales helped them raise $30K and the attention of a startup incubator, which offered them training and another $20K in funding. The company didn’t turn a profit until 2003, but by 2005 business was booming – Netflix was shipping out a million DVDs daily. When he did manage to start his own business, it was short-lived and failed.

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How “False Expertise” Can Damage Your Business—and How to Protect It

ConversionXL

In the modern office, if someone has great creative ideas, the Halo Effect makes us more likely to admire that same person’s copywriting or management skills. The result of these vulnerabilities is that we hire the wrong candidates, listen to the wrong people, and fail to differentiate our businesses. We overestimate our knowledge.

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The Most Challenging Part of Becoming a Freelance Developer.

Software By Rob

A better approach is to focus on your strengths and from there determine the method(s) that will work best to differentiate yourself from every other the freelance developers around the world.

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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

Both Sides of the Table

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. Fund raising (as is much of life) is a sale – pure and simple. As with any sales campaign you need to: Qualify your buyers early so you focus your scarce resources on people likely to buy your product. .

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

When I first decided to start The Silicon Valley Product Group, I had just left eBay and had some very strong opinions about what makes great product teams, and great product cultures, and while there were more than a few important thinkers and leaders on these topics, one area that I felt was under-represented was the role of product management.

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Even Branding Should Be Agile: An Interview With Base Creative’s Matthew Kinsman

Up and Running

In 2003, Matthew Kinsman was traveling around the world and found himself in Hong Kong. But there are some other steps you can take toward a viral marketing campaign: Prepare to grow: Make sure your web hosting account is ready for increased traffic and your merchant account is ready for an increase in sales. Don’t hold out.

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The Guy Who Took on Google (and now LinkedIn): Mike Yavonditte

Both Sides of the Table

Now, he ‘outsources’ his investments through John Frankel of Frankel Asset Management. Around 2003, Quigo was doing tens of millions of dollars in revenue with two main products: a ready-to-use, search engine marketing solution for advertisers called FeedPoint and a contextual advertising platform for publishers called AdSonar.

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