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27 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

million+ company, with 60+ team members doing tours in NYC, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington DC and Los Angeles.”. I started R Public Relations on a wing and a prayer, but my reputation in the public relations world has followed me to success. We’ve continued bootstrapping since then — today we are a $2.5

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

Since coming to Australia in 2004 my passion for creativity was further boosted and was well alive while still doing my business degree and working in corporate world until 2011. I tried selling my knowledge and services in marketing and public relations and it worked! Thanks to Lydia Fayal, AdmitSee ! #22) 22) Self-Sufficient.

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7 Characteristics of a Real Life Marketing Strategy :: Small.

Duct Tape Marketing

Inside Threadless HQ in Chicago I’ve spent a great deal of time wrestling with the idea of developing useful, real life marketing strategies for small businesses and have concluded that there are a handful of characteristics that can be mined, explored and shaped in order to make marketing strategy the foundation of business building.

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Forget The ‘Likes’ – How To Market Effectively Using Today’s Facebook

YoungUpstarts

by Jonathan Sellers, social media strategist at EMSI Public Relations. That’s been especially true for Facebook, which had to find new ways to make money after going public two years ago. Even Google+, owned by Google, which went public way back in 2004, is constantly tweaking.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Don’t forget NASA, National Research/Technology Laboratories, Boeing, US Defense dept, many of the top technology Universities like MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley, University of Chicago, etc, etc, fall in same usage categories. Take note of what Paul Graham said in 2004: [link] — he is talking along similar lines.

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