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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Netflix was founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph to combat late fees for video rentals. The company didn’t turn a profit until 2003, but by 2005 business was booming – Netflix was shipping out a million DVDs daily. Thanks to Will Yang, Instrumentl ! #4- 4- Netflix. Photo Credit: Jen Wan. Photo Credit: Daivat Dholakia.

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Support an Entrepreneur: Buy Local Technology

ReadWriteStart

As someone who spent two years in 2003 and 2004 in NYC selling technology to Wall St trading firms and having my friends and clients wonder what this whole startup thing was about and why I was "wasting" my career doing this after doing a fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University it is great to see how vibrant the NY Startup community has become.

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Twitter Link Roundup #205 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! by @briansolis – crowdspring.co/1iGjNjZ.

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3 Simple Ways to Empower Your Customers to Sell For You :: Small.

Duct Tape Marketing

2) Video testimonials Capturing your best client’s success story on video is a great way to create compelling content and provide 3rd party proof that your business does produce as promised. My experience is that most businesses have at least a few of those evangelist type customers just looking for ways to sing their praises.

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25 Entrepreneurs Discuss The Entrepreneurs That Best Represents Innovation and Disruption

Hearpreneur

Skype was the world's leading platform for video conferencing. In 2003, Odysseas Tsatalos and Stratis Karamanlakis were friends who wanted to work together even though one of them was in the U.S. #11- Eric Yuan. Photo Credit: Patrick Wilson. If we're talking about innovation, there's no better example than what Eric Yuan did.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

The Rise of Mergers and Acquisitions -– March 2003 -2008 After the dot.com bubble collapsed, the IPO market (and most tech M&A deals) shutdown for technology companies. For the next four or five years, technology M&A boomed, growing from 50 in 2003 to 450 in 2006. Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Optimized Reviews May Be the Next Local SEO Edge :: Small Business.

Duct Tape Marketing

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