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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 2 Really Cool Companies

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I suggested LinkedIn, oDesk, and eLance with the caveat that the field is extremely competitive and crowded and differentiation would be tough to achieve. Today, he has over a thousand, and he has chosen to focus on the realtor vertical. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. Happy Grasshopper.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

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So, in 2008, I began selling new and refurbished servers and storage lines, which quickly became advantageous to those small-and medium-sized businesses who needed to save money during the cash-strapped days of the recession and chose upgrading their systems versus buying new. A friend challenged me to expand my offerings.

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

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Posted on February 17, 2008 by Alex Poole. Ascenders and are the vertical strokes which rise above the body of a character or x-height. Letter differentiation and rate of comprehension in reading. Size, style, and vertical spacing in the legibility of small typefaces. Ascenders and descenders. Ascenders and descenders.

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

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If you ask me, I think it’s one of the companies that has led and will continue to lead the transformation of media from a lethargic print-based (newspapers, magazines) and linear based (TV) format into the most successful digital media brand of the next decade. An obvious vector for me would be software for the media industry.

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