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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Over the years, despite massive losses, Netflix was able to bounce back and improve its revenue by 47%. BMW introduced subscription fees for their cars, creating revolutionary changes in the conservative automotive community. The Fat Sheep project in South Africa's barren Karoo landscape is my favorite turnaround story.

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Small Business Spotlight of the Week: miiCard

crowdSPRING Blog

miiCard supports the UK, North America, Western Europe, India, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Within the next two years miiCard will generate significant revenue, gain key partnerships and start to establish itself as a new standard in online identity and trust. What are some industry specific challenges you faced? .

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Upfront Ventures Adds Hamet Watt as New Investment Partner

Both Sides of the Table

But as sweet as that success has been (we invested pre-revenue in a small team) today my even more important news was the further expansion of our partner ranks. Hamet started his career in Venture Capital working for the first post-apartheid VC fund in South Africa. I’ve known Hamet for 5 years. We watched together.

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Transcript of Why Continuous Learning Matters for Today’s Professionals

Duct Tape Marketing

Skillshare is an online learning community with thousands of classes in design, business, tech, you name it. So they’re in-person, but it still kind of had that community feel that we still have online today. So it is an increasingly global community. This is John Jantsch, and my guest today is Matt Cooper.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Hemafuse

Austin Startup

Yarina spoke about the meaning of Sisu in Finnish, the importance of building community, and what she loves about being in Baltimore. Our dual 2020 goals are continued geographic scale of Hemafuse to achieve a $1M revenue run rate and a pilot of our second portfolio product. What is your top goal for Sisu Global for 2020?

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I wanted to support the local community and stay in Thailand and I’ve been able to keep living abroad and traveling for the past three years. The revenue on the darkroom rental was close to what I was making weekly, I was in disbelief. Thanks to Ryan O’Connor, One Tribe Apparel ! #11 Image Credit: Saleem Jaffer.

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The 10 Greatest Social Entrepreneurs Of All Time

YoungUpstarts

Drayton spreads out his social entrepreneurship expertise in other organizations as well, working as a chairman at Community Greens, Youth Venture, and Get America Working! In addition, the company donates 10% of pre-tax profits to funding nonprofits and businesses focused on the community, the environment, and responsible practices.

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