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Startup Location Is Still A Critical Success Factor

Startup Professionals Musings

Even in this age of globalization and virtualization, the geographic area where you choose to live and work can still make or break your startup business. On the other hand, if you are into solar technologies, there is probably an advantage to being in Phoenix or a similar location. get the attention of the market they choose.

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5 Companies That Could Become The Next Apple

YoungUpstarts

Although Netflix’s domestic video subscriptions have slumped somewhat, its global expansion appears to have compensated for any revenue losses tracked within the past few months. This growth comes in spite of a string of declining net sales from the fiscal period of 2011 (40.6 Amazon Excels With Delivery Services.

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Entrepreneur Fills a Market Void by Building Female-Focused Co-Working Spaces

Hearpreneur

As the CEO of Hera Hub , the global co-working space, Felena recognized an opportunity to build a female-focused coworking space largely because she couldn’t find one that catered to her needs. The company now has additional communities Phoenix, AZ, Washington, DC, and Sweden, with several other cities in the works.

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Celebrating the body of work of my clients in 2013

Early Growth Financial Services

Today is the last day to get preorder goodies, including an all-expense paid trip to Phoenix to get a consulting day with me where we work intensively on your career or business. Chris and Heather Lee – We raised almost $27,000 for Teen Lifeline through Twestival Phoenix 2013. for the next ten years. A for Awesome. Need a Nudge?

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Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You

infochachkie.com

These “Acme”-sounding names often couple empty words with proper nouns, such as: Phoenix Technology, Eagle Systems, Lewis Enterprises, Malibu Industries, or suffixes such as, “plex” or “tronics.” Smucker’s grew from a family-owned, small Midwestern business into a $4 billion, global enterprise. Copyright © 2007 - 2011 infoChachkie.

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MBAs vs the Education Market: The Rise of Education Startups

ithacaVC

In 2011 alone, venture capitalists invested $429.1 Knewton secured a $33-million investment in 2011. In July 2012, a report was released of a two-year investigation of for-profit colleges like the University of Phoenix by Iowa Senator Tom Harkin. million in 82 education technology deals, an increase from $334.3