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28 Entrepreneurs Share Their Tips and Tricks of Staying Motivated

Hearpreneur

When I started my company in 2005, I spent too many years working so much both IN and ON the business that I burned out. Photo Credit: Charlotte Maumus. Thanks to Charlotte Maumus, Memwris ! #9- Doing what I do best, and hiring others to do the rest. Photo Credit: Lorrie Thomas Ross. Thanks to James Dyble, Global Sound Group !

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A close call that we avoided thanks to our advisory board.

Jeff Hilimire

It was 2005 and we were 25 people, up from half that the year before. We had been talking for months about expanding into either Charlotte or South Florida. Several of those near-misses were the result of advice from our amazing advisory board – Bill , Ken , James , William , and Mike.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I now am the CEO and founder of Berri Properties in Asheville and Charlotte, NC. in December of 2004 with just our one little product, and by the end of 2005 we had sold 1 million Finders Key Purse(r). But instead of staying upset, I took advantage of my position of being debt-free and became a real estate agent. I launched Alexx, Inc.

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U.S. Venture Capital Has Its Biggest Quarter Since Dot-Com Days

allthingsd.com

Robert Half Technology - Charlotte, NC. © 2005-2012 Dow Jones & Company Inc. Planner Categories 3, 32 (Office Supplies/Furniture) Sams. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Bentonville, AR. Senior Brand Manager, Venturing & Emerging Brands. Coca-Cola - Atlanta, GA. Web Designer. Marketing Manager - Internal Firm Services. Walt Mossberg.

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TRANSFORMIFY WINS 2017 FIRST WOMEN AWARD

Transformify

Since its launch in 2005, the awards have led the way in recognising and celebrating the many achievements of exceptional women, with past winners including Claire Balding, Ruby McGregor-Smith and Baroness Grey-Thompson. First Women Young Achiever of the Year: Charlotte Pearce, InkPact Marketing.

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What’s The One Thing That Creates High User Engagement?

ConversionXL

The concept is not new – Bryan Eisenberg discussed this already in 2005 when he wrote about website scent trails. The only noticeable event is in Charlotte, quite far away from me: So bad scent ruined this conversion. It’s not animated video backgrounds or design that “pops” So what is it? Message match.

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How to pivot away $34m: Israel’s Xeround shuts it doors with a lesson

The Next Web

Xeround was founded in 2005 by Sharon Barkai – founder of Sheer networks, which was eventually sold to Cisco , and Dr. Gilad Zlotkin – founder of Class Data, also sold to Cisco. Charlotte Yarkoni – a senior exec at Amdocs, was asked to take over as CEO, and see if she could turn Xeround into a sort of ‘mini Amdocs’.

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