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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Airbnb founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia had difficulty securing funding, so they launched a mini project to build some funds and catch investors' attention. Using this capital , the founders launched and enjoyed exponential growth in their first year, with 10K users and thousands of listings. Photo Credit: Jack Underwood.

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Understanding The Role Of The Chief Behind The Chief

Duct Tape Marketing

Cameron is t he founder of the COO Alliance, the World’s Leading Network for Seconds in Command. And that was, you know, 2004, 2005 was, I was realizing that it was no longer about working harder. Understanding The Role Of The Chief Behind The Chief written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. This is John Jantsch.

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Demand Generation: 7 Tactics to Fuel Your Funnel

ConversionXL

Elevate your founder and employee personal brand. Take SparkToro founder Rand Fishkin. Since co-founding Moz in 2004, Rand has continually put himself out there as a public face. Become a trusted brand with thought leadership. Value creates demand. Let’s look at seven proven ways to deliver it.

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From Mailroom to Boardroom: 10 Modern-Day Execs Who Started At The Bottom

YoungUpstarts

in 2012, previously holding positions as president and co-chairman. Today, he is the CSO of The Convex Group, founder of Media Eagles, and founder and CEO of Fanista. Andrew Taylor : Andrew Taylor may have been the son of Enterprise Rent-A-Car founder Jack C. John Borghetti : A consummate workaholic (he works 6.5

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

But sometimes the fastest path to sustainable market leadership involves pursuing a strategy that is unprofitable in the short term in order to reach a position that is more profitable in the long term. Blitzscaling works when being the first company to achieve critical scale produces enduring leadership in a massively valuable market.

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Seizing the Moment: Why Experts Believe Now is the Golden Opportunity for Investing in Israel

VC Cafe

Since I’ve started writing about Israeli startups in 2004, there has never been any event like October 7 and the war that followed. Juan Delgado-Moreira, co-CEO of Hamilton Lane, a $900 billion asset management company, said in an interview last week : “Now is the best time to invest in Israel.

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5/25-NYC – Investing in Intellectual Capital: Patents, Trademarks, Domain Names, Litigation, Government Rights, and other Intangible Assets

David Teten

Prior to joining Oversee, he spent 10 years in executive leadership positions building SaaS-businesses that leveraged the power of the Internet as a platform for growth and efficiency. He began his career as a consultant with McKinsey & Co. in Economics from Columbia University.

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