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From Contest to Company: 6 Tips for Taking a Startup to the Next Level

ReadWriteStart

Sally Buberman, the director of Buenos Aires-based Web conferencing and online education vendor WormholeIT , participated in the 2007 Imagine Cup. Many of the returnees stressed how networking was the real benefit of being at the contest. Think carefully about your team's long-term composition. Think about where the gaps are in your team.

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Do entrepreneurs really have common character traits?

NZ Entrepreneur

Personality styles – these include models such as DiSC , (Wiley, 2007) Myers and Briggs and our own Circles of Empowerment Interaction Styles at EnQPractice (Geyer, 2013), designed to understand what drives the behavior of individuals. (Kolb & Wagner, 2015).The The understanding is that we are born with our personality traits.

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From Contest to Company: 6 Tips for Taking a Startup to the Next Level

ReadWriteStart

Sally Buberman, the director of Buenos Aires-based Web conferencing and online education vendor WormholeIT , participated in the 2007 Imagine Cup. Many of the returnees stressed how networking was the real benefit of being at the contest. Think carefully about your team's long-term composition. Think about where the gaps are in your team.

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Separated at Birth: Techstars and Startup Weekend

David Cohen

At these events (there about 1,000 per year from Boulder to Mongolia to Chile to New Zealand), entrepreneurs and the community gather to build startups in 54 hours. Startup Weekend was quite literally born in my office at Techstars in 2007.

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10 Mom-and-Pop Businesses That Turned Into Empires

YoungUpstarts

Wrigley’s gum became a huge success and he moved the company to its first factory in Canada, then Australia, Great Britain and New Zealand. In 2007, Burt’s Bees was bought out by Clorox for a reported sum of $925 million. Two years later, Wrigley launched Wrigley’s famous Spearmint and Juicy Fruit flavors.

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Origin Stories: 11 Moments That Inspired Entrepreneurs to Start Their Own Businesses

Up and Running

The financial crisis of 2007/08 had little effect on the New Zealand banking sector, due to their much sterner regulation,” he says. Sometimes it takes a bad situation to highlight the need for a solution—and it was in this way that Luigi Wewege developed the idea for his business, Vivier Group.

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Spam Laws, Email Marketing, and Compliance

Duct Tape Marketing

New Zealand – The Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act 2007. France – CNIL Guidelines on Email Marketing. Germany – 7 German Unfair Competition Law. Italy – Personal Data Protection Code. Netherlands – Online Privacy Law. Sweden – Swedish Marketing Act.

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