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Vaping: the Startup Business in 2018

The Startup Magazine

The first modern e-cigarette was made in the mid-2000s and started to be sold in 2004, but the trend only caught up worldwide after 2010, when the interest in vaping started to increase and, consequently, the number of e-cigarette users too – a strong indicator of why this growing industry is currently trending amongst entrepreneurs.

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The True Costs Of Entrepreneurship

YoungUpstarts

Serial entrepreneur Donovan Janus started his first company NTN Publishing in 1998, and started Exposure Manager in 2004. Janus launched 17hats in October 2014 after a short 4 months in development. Still running today, Exposure Manager has 6,000 users including the Elvis Presley Foundation and Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants.

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Transformify Partners with Genashtim to Help Bridge the Skills Gap

Transformify

Back in 2014, Career Builder has published a research where 81 percent of hiring managers said it was at least “Somewhat Difficult” to fill open roles due to lack of skills, and 61 percent said they had an experience of hiring a person who was not totally qualified for the position.

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Why Do Consumer IPOs and B2B IPOs Get Treated Differently?

View from Seed

Google was a one such company when they went public in 2004 and Facebook was too at their 2012 IPO. I don’t follow the Chinese startup market as closely as I follow the US, but Alibaba’s 2014 IPO was a similar watershed moment.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

With a new CEO in 2004, the toy company shifted gears and introduced new lines of some of the most popular LEGO sets in history. WhatsApp became one of the most popular apps for social media by 2014. It's steadily risen to the most popular toymaker spot once more. Thanks to Daivat Dholakia, Essenvia ! Thanks to Amar Vig, London-fs !

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Why Do Consumer IPOs and B2B IPOs Get Treated Differently?

Agile VC

Google was a one such company when they went public in 2004 and Facebook was too at their 2012 IPO. I don’t follow the Chinese startup market as closely as I follow the US, but Alibaba’s 2014 IPO was a similar watershed moment.

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19 Psychological Tactics for Successful Crowdfunding Campaigns

ConversionXL

Cumming, Leboeuf, and Swienbacher (2014) analyzed 47,139 campaigns from Indiegogo — a crowdfunding platform with the option to choose either KIA or AON models. And they want to be seen displaying compassion because they want to be loved themselves.” ( West, 2004 ). 2014 , pg. You might think so…but that’s not the case.