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21 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

After serving various sale director roles it dawned upon me that the data entered into the CRM by sales guys working out of the office, was inaccurate. Receiving an email was quit unique at that time and was well read. #11- Solve reporting tools issues. Photo Credit: Oscar MacĂ­a. Either that or it was extremely out of date.

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5 questions for New Story after a month in Y Combinator

Jeff Hilimire

3) become in-kind donors — an example is Atlanta-based film company, Friendly Human (they’re amazing) – who is coming down with us to Haiti on July 15th to shoot a brand video! For over a year and a half, they did less than $500/month in sales, every investor laughed at them, but they kept pushing.

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