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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

The sales helped them raise $30K and the attention of a startup incubator, which offered them training and another $20K in funding. Before Jobs returned to the business in 1997, its sales, and popularity all steadily declined for 12 years, nearly driving it into bankruptcy. Photo Credit: Rob Greene. Photo Credit: Ryan Niddel.

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Resources for Global Entrepreneurs

Up and Running

On Bplans, we often share information about United States’ specific resources, like SBDCs (small business development centers), but those resources probably aren’t as helpful to global entrepreneurs. Is it a sales pitch or an opinion? South Africa. Endeavor South Africa. Global Entrepreneurship Network.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. As of year-end, Foursquare had over 15 million users, with an exponential growth rate globally.

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Should You Serve Fair Trade Coffee?

Up and Running

In a global market where the buyers and sellers of coffee are often half a world away from those who grow and maintain the plants themselves, do you know what those worker’s lives are like? What about the farms, are they environmentally friendly, and are they using green and sustainable methods?

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The Art of Work with Jeff Goins [VIDEO]

Up and Running

Whether you think your craft is entrepreneurship, or in my case, it’s writing and communication, maybe it’s sales, maybe it’s making whatever widget that you make. I remember interviewing this family who moved to Burundi, the second poorest country in the world, located in East Africa. How do I actually do this?

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Data Visualization Inspiration: Analysis To Insights To Action, Faster!

Occam's Razor

Let's go back to our table, and global oil consumption. Worldwide Smartphone Sales by Operating System , in thousands. The raw numbers used for sales makes the above graph less insightful. China, South Africa, Egypt. We started with a table, global oil consumption, let's end with a table too. Sugar cane.

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