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15 Entrepreneurs Discuss Why they Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

5 – A Love Affair With Italy. I have a love affair with Italy. I was born there, lived there for the first ten years of my life and could probably spend hours talking about Italy and it’s cuisine. I am able to bring people to Italy and introduce them to this great country and all the food it has to offer.

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Divalicious Puts A Shopping Mall In Your Hand

YoungUpstarts

Serial entrepreneur Weyrich has started three Internet companies and three mobile app companies since the age of 22, and recently sold a Catholic Dating service he owned and operated in 2007 to a competitor.

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Thoughts for New Angels - Startups and angels: Along the way to.

Tim Keane

» July 20, 2007. I was in Italy a couple of weeks ago at the request of the US State Department to discuss angel investing with IBAN, the Italian Business Angels Network. I was in Italy a couple of weeks ago at the request of the US State Department to discuss angel investing with IBAN, the Italian Business Angels Network.

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14 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I started Ignite Social Media in 2007 after working in a mid-sized regional ad agency. Amazing chefs and experts who want to share their cultural and culinary traditions with curious people – even if they can’t hop on a flight and visit Japan this year or Italy next year. Photo Credit: Jim Tobin. Photo Credit: Ira S.

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Episode 57: Marketing Buzz and Business Growth with Michael Shepherd

Mike Michalowicz

As a founding member of the World Pizza Champions (America’s #1 Pizza Team), he has traveled to Italy competing at the World Pizza Championships in Italy annually since 2002. In 2006/2007 his team won back to back Gold Medals in the Team Acrobatic Event. Show Quotes . Turn your idols into your rivals. Exciting news can fade.

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It’s a torturous chaos until it isn’t

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Here they are in 2007 , justifiably proud of getting 138,000 sign-ups in 3 short years: Founder Mike McDerment showed us the update at Business of Software 2011 — it’s identical in shape, except they just passed 3,500,000 users. He lives in Italy, not surrounded by an American startup culture to feed off. Of course it was.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

billion in 2007, as investors worldwide tightened their belts in the wake of the global financial crisis. billion), and 33 percent lower than proceeds in 2007 ($3.79 Foreign direct investment in Israel reached $3.8 billion in 2009, compared with $10.8 billion in 2008 and $8.8 billion, 7 percent below 2008 levels ($2.74

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