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Advice From a Successful Female Business Owner: “Don’t Wait Until You are at the Top of Your Game to Get Covered”

Women Entrepreneurs Can

in 2004 and has grown her project management company into a success that makes $1 million in revenue annually. trillion in sales, shipments, receipts or revenue and employed more than 10 million people. Reputation damage. But successful business owners will urge – don’t let this be you. Violet Stephens started Proje Inc.

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How to Radically Stand Out with Brand Marketing

ConversionXL

He was swiftly followed by Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic in 2004. And yet, revenue went up by 45% YoY. Your brand is your reputation – that intangible thing that determines whether your customers trust you above the rest. In 2002, Elon Musk created Space X. With enough resources, products can always be copied.

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How Does A Small Company Make A Big Company Successful?

Feld Thoughts

AmeriData was a public company, a voracious acquirer (we acquired 40 companies in three years), and a very fast growing business (they were less than $50 million in revenue when they acquired Feld Technologies and over $2 billion in revenue three years later when GE acquired them.) And very, very little got done.

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From email scams to e-commerce wins: How online shopping is helping Nigeria fix its Internet reputation

The Next Web

Slowly overcoming its reputation. It has made and wasted billions of dollars in oil revenues and outside Lagos the country is corrupt and doesn’t even run a Postal service for its people. Nigeria itself is home to 170 million people, a figure that is expected to rise to 400 million by 2050, and the biggest market in Africa.

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LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs

reidhoffman.org

What I’ve honorably been able to do, however, is share the deck I used to pitch LinkedIn to Greylock for a Series B investment back in 2004. the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. In 2004, the consumer internet was just beginning to rebound. we had no revenue. the evolution of LinkedIn as a company.

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Go-Getters Showcase

Mike Michalowicz

Buzz, as most call him, has simplified digital marketing success with The Rule of 26 and is on a mission to double the website revenue of service-centric businesses across America. My wife Mirta, a professional chef from Paraguay, and I started the business in 2004. Contact him at buzz@bbsalaska.com or 423-377-0723. 20+ books sold.

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Demand Generation: 7 Tactics to Fuel Your Funnel

ConversionXL

Since co-founding Moz in 2004, Rand has continually put himself out there as a public face. Inside sales CRM Close.io , for example, grew its company to $6+ million in annual revenue with thought leadership-fueled content marketing. Of those, 72% say they directly impact pipeline and revenue. Take SparkToro founder Rand Fishkin.

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