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27 Entrepreneurs Share Tips on Building an Ecommerce Business

Hearpreneur

The expansion of e-commerce should also bring about seeing returns as a strategic lever, similar to how companies used faster delivery to drive customer experience and revenue. Think of it from the customer's perspective – Why should this customer shop from your store instead of the other stores selling this product?

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A Tale of Profit First Success from Sherri Tafoya, President & founder of Custom Blinds & Design

Mike Michalowicz

So when Sherri Tafoya, President and Founder of Customs Blinds & Design contacted us raving about the system, we asked her to share her experience and she graciously obliged. “I Founded Custom Blinds For Less, Inc. Take it away, Sherri! in February 2000 – part time, with the goal to quit my full-time job within one year.

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5 Biggest Mistakes in Healthcare Staffing by Susanne Mariga, CPA

Mike Michalowicz

PK Scheerle, CEO of Gifted Healthcare, warns that sometimes, new healthcare staffing firms in an eagerness for growth and customers, against their better judgement trade hours for low margin sales. PK says offer your firm up as the firm of quality and convenience letting customers know that you have 4 nurses ready to go.

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Quick Left: An unlikely CEO leads this app development house that’s “a bit like therapy”

The Next Web

In fact, she’s so unlikely to talk about herself or her company that, while sitting with her for dinner during Big Omaha, the subject of Quick Left came up (not from her, mind you) and I said that I really needed to talk to someone from there to find out their story. Alongi likes to think of the company as sort of a therapist.

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What Boston’s Top Consumer Tech Leaders Think About Boston’s Consumer Tech Struggles [#BostonB2C Recap]

View from Seed

We have companies in Chicago, San Francisco (and elsewhere in Silicon Valley), Omaha, and New York. It’s about hits that can generate customers, not just hits on popular sites for the sake of ego-stroking. This is a recap of the more insightful tweets and comments from the event. At NextView, we invest across the US.

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[Review] Building A Small Business That Warren Buffett Would Love

YoungUpstarts

After all, he’s not called the Oracle of Omaha for nothing when it comes to investing in companies, so if you’re able to build a business that attracts his attention, you’re probably – and we mean that in the most understated way – on to something. With Healthy Net and Gross Margins.

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Google Fiber: Just One More Search Per Session

Hunter Walker

Continue to drive down the cost of deployment and sign up customers for a very sticky (high LTV) service by being first to market. Their Big Omaha event is coming up May 8-10 and looks great.]' People ask me what’s Google’s metagame with Fiber. A connected population benefits Google.

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