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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Ultimately, we went with On Site because we wanted to give a clear indication of what made us different – kind of a micro elevator pitch in our name. In 2008, while growing my employee benefits business, my mom took a fall at work that required shoulder surgery. Thanks to Michael Ott, Rantizo ! #14- 14- Act of writing.

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1001 Serial Articles for Entrepreneurs & Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

As of today, I will have published an article here for entrepreneurs and startups every day for the last 1001 days, since I started Startup Professionals Musings near the close of 2008. Every entrepreneur should work first on his elevator pitch. A different message everywhere is no message.

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Building a sweat equity team

discuss.joelonsoftware.com

Mark Walsen Mark Walsen Thursday, October 09, 2008 Deleting … Approving … I think you would be better off hiring people, rather than trying to convince them to work for free in exchange for equity. Refine your elevator pitch. You simply need to network. Go to user groups. But how do I find them?

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Staying True to Your Core While Growing Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

Nextiva is a cloud communications company based in Scottsdale, Arizona, and Masjedi has been a part of the team since the company was founded in 2008. Questions I ask Yaniv Masjedi: What’s the elevator pitch for your company, Nextiva?

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4 Strategies for Managing Your Online Brand

ReadWriteStart

While the specific tactics you take for each of these will be certainly different depending on the tools you choose to use, I think everyone needs to take steps around the following four strategies: Refine your personal elevator pitch Monitor what's being said about you online Proactively do content marketing Aggregate and curate to reinforce.

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Q&A Wednesday :: GuruStorms

Austin Startup

Q: Give us the elevator pitch that you gave at SXSW Accelerator? In 2008, I decided to take this concept and implement it as a web site, so Molecular Thinking was born. Today’s Q&A Wednesday is with Edward Cruz from GuruStorms , which was a finalist in the SXSW Accelerator program.

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How to Start a Successful Consulting Business: The Complete 10 Step Guide (2019)

crowdSPRING Blog

Take time to develop and rehearse your “elevator pitch” until you can deliver it comfortably and confidently. Check out MindTools’ guide to Crafting an Elevator Pitch. As we previously pointed out , Reports have shown a consistent increase in crowdfunded investments since the great recession in 2008.