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[Singapore] Shopify Partners SingTel To Grow Presence In Singapore

YoungUpstarts

The e-commerce space in Singapore has been ratcheted up by another notch as online shopping platform Shopify partners telecommunications provider SingTel to make available its services to businesses in the country. Shopify itself was started as an online shop in 2004 selling snowboard equipment out of a garage by its founders.

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6 Tips for Coming Up With Your Million-Dollar Business Idea

Up and Running

Voices.com , an online marketplace that matches voice actors with advertising agencies and TV and radio stations, began in 2004 as an idea scribbled down on a napkin by newlyweds David and Stephanie Ciccarelli. Today, that niche has grown into a chasm and YogaFit® has become the largest training school for yoga instructors in North America.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). conference happened at the end of 2004). If Reid were to start a company today he’d probably have every VC in America offering to back him, but this wasn’t necessarily the case when we started LinkedIn out of his apartment in Mountain View at the end of 2002.

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Beyond the Full-Time CMO: How Companies are Opting for a Fractional Future

Duct Tape Marketing

Do you collaborate with a team or partners? [06:14] Because you can, do you have a team of implementers or if somebody does need more than say you personally can provide, do you bring in partners? That's why it's America's number one meal kit. 05:20] Could you shed some light on your business model? How do you avoid this? [07:30]

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Whilst teaching 16-18-year-old college students part-time, I had taken on a Flash website build in mid-2004 for a highly-reputed jewelry company in Bristol, UK, referred to me by a friend, and done a good job, other website opportunities started to come in. In his case, he built commercial buildings in Toronto, Canada.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

His findings are based on data from more than 2,000 companies that received venture funding, generally at least $1 million, from 2004 through 2010. Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., David Cowan of Bessemer Venture Partners has stuck with Mr. Dreymann.

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The 4 Phases For Developing A Customer Retention Strategy

ConversionXL

million in 2004 to $6.5 Instead, by using their loyalty card to make purchases on their website, in a store location, or through a partner brand, you’re able to earn “Star Points”. Figure, back in 2011 the Speciality Coffee Association of America found that the average 16 oz cup of coffee costs around $1.17

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