Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. Thanks to Suns amazing PR blitz, there was tremendous demand for experts on Java, and I did my best to convince people that I was one of that mythical breed.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 24, 2016

I’ve been a dating and relationship coach for over 8 years and what I learned personally as I dated between my two marriages (and is the reason I met and married my husband in 2007) and what I continue to learn from my clients is ‘We attract the type of person we believe we deserve.’ Miki is a boy’s nickname in Japan.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 29, 2017

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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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

When we were deciding what to call our new PR agency we started by writing down a bunch of words that describe what we do, that we felt passionate about. While we were working on the logo it dawned on us that PR was actually uPRoar’s middle name. Thanks to Michael Harris, Uproar PR ! #15 12 – A Friend Helped.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

Im confident of that last statement, because I made the same mistake again a few years later, when I won an award in 2007. We go to mixers, buy fancy offices, focus on PR, and try to one-up each other. If youd asked me to rank the top most important people Id met that year, I doubt it would look very impressive in retrospect.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

In most SaaS sub-markets, we find that Europe is roughly three years behind the US in adoption, and Asia is slightly behind Europe – although we have recently seen some interesting pockets of activity in Japan and India that may be accelerating. Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. ► 2007. (10).

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Eric, When I came to IMVU back in 2007, I had really enjoyed the actual product (the chat client) and getting to know the regulars on the forum. Compared to 2007, the chat client runs whole lot smoother (well, right before 2.0 Have you personally visited the Content Creator forums and read through the PR thread? Desperately.

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