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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

The project was a little unexpected – creating customer cereal boxes called Obama-Os and Cap’n McCains, timely for the 2008 elections. Thanks to Keith Terrell, Backpacks Global ! #14- Joe Coulombe had an idea after running a small chain of convenience stores in southern California. 14- Polaroid. 24- Jan Koum.

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Cracking The Code: Happy New Year 2008!

Cracking the Code

Monday, January 28, 2008. Happy New Year 2008! The second part of the year has seen a lower flow of blog posts, but part of my 2008 resolutions are to remedy to this shortfall, so be prepared for a strong 2008. California Avenue, Suite 110 Sunnyvale, CA 94086 T: 408-215-4627 ext. ▼ 2008. (11).

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1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Making Money From Blogs

ReadWriteStart

Next, Neal Jha from Fremont, California, pitched MyDataOrganizer. Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. MyDataOrganizer.

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F2F Still Matters

SoCal CTO

And in fact all our globally-connecting-social-networking tools are making face-to-face more, not less desirable. Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. in Computer Science.

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10 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

First they pivoted from video rentals by mail to smart suggestions by algorithm then they followed by leading the streaming revolution to now global domination. When this platform launched in 2008, they were practically were laughed at and couldn’t find investors. Well done Reed! Thanks to Paige Arnof-Fenn, Mavens & Moguls !

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Service Exports - Driving U.S. Startups and Small Businesses

Growthink Blog

By way of anecdote, from the time Dave Lavinsky and I founded Growthink in 1999 through 2008, more than 95% of our firm’s clients and investors were U.S. Since the great “financial crisis” of 2008-2009, the firm’s clientele – really without us even trying – has becoming increasingly global. exports in 2008. Not anymore.

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Israeli VC Funds Struggled to Raise in 2009

VC Cafe

T he latest IVC report shows that Israeli VC funds were able to raise only $229 million in 2009 , a staggering 72% less than $803 million raised in 2008 and the third lowest amount raised per annum in the last decade. The decrease in capital raised by Israeli venture capital funds reflects a global trend.

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