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15 Famous Companies That Started As Something Much Different

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Simply put, smart businesses tend to follow the money, and sometimes that means growing into a business the founders hadn’t ever imagined. But in those days, as the Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company, the only thing they were sending was telegrams. Berkshire Hathaway.

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Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools

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Social media audiences have effectively become another universe of prospects to tap, which means measurement and tracking is essential to yielding from these visitors both direct and indirect revenue. PaidContent.org Founder Launches Travel Media and Data Company. Mississippi. Mississippi. Merging Brands with Technology.

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How to Fund a Startup

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I think it would help founders to understand funding better—notjust the mechanics of it, but what investors are thinking. And if trouble withinvestors is one of the biggest threats to a startup, managing themis one of the most important skills founders need to learn. There never has to be atime when you have no revenues.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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If failure is defined as failing to see the projected return on investment—say, a specific revenue growth rate or date to break even on cash flow—then more than 95% of start-ups fail, based on Mr. Ghoshs research. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Mississippi. Mississippi.

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Out of the Crisis #9, the founders of Frontline Foods on the moral imperative to support frontline workers at scale

Startup Lessons Learned

The founders of Frontline Foods are three of these people. New York, of course, being one of the epicenters for the pandemic in our country, but other cities being hit very hard, New Orleans and Detroit, and what's happening in Mississippi right now. In every case, they've simply been asked to take on work and said yes.