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Cultivating A Culture Of Excellence From The Ground Up

YoungUpstarts

Leading the grounds crew at a prestigious resort and the Landscape Services Department at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss), I did a lot of tilling the soil before I found a way to grow my aspirations and to help employees not just to survive, but thrive. My lessons in leadership took years to develop. Share your passion.

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The Next Bubble – Don’t Get Fooled Again

Steve Blank

Bubbles are not new; we have had them for hundreds of years (the Tulip Mania , South Sea Company , Mississippi Company , etc.). In the case of this bubble, it was social networks, consumer and mobile applications, and the cloud. No one doubts that social networks and web and mobile applications are reinventing commerce.

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15 Famous Companies That Started As Something Much Different

YoungUpstarts

But in the 1990s, Nokia pared down to simply focus on telecommunications, including networking equipment, personal computers, IT equipment, and the product they are most famous for today, mobile phones. But in those days, as the Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company, the only thing they were sending was telegrams.

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Smartsynch raises $20 Million (Jackson, Mississippi)

Jason Ball

SmartSynch’s core product delivers actionable intelligence from electricity meters via public wireless networks and the Internet. SmartSynch’s solutions provide utility companies and their customers with the unprecedented power to take control of their resource usage.

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Why We Need Each Other

Duct Tape Marketing

This group networks in person and relies on each other for referrals. In the summer of 2008 the entire Upper Mississippi River Basin flooded and inundated ten square miles of Cedar Rapids, including the entire downtown of this community of about 100,000. Surprised? I mean you heard about Katrina and Sandy, but Cedar Rapids?

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Becoming an Entrepreneur Ain't for Everybody!

Small Business Force

Now entrepreneurs don't have to be "Mississippi gamblers," but there are risks involved. If you like this post, by all means, share it with your networks and colleagues. Either way, focus is a critical skill that will be absolutely necessary for entrepreneurial success. Without it, potential success will be difficult to achieve.

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Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools

www.foliomag.com

Join the Network for Magazine & eMedia Publishing. Mississippi. Mississippi. Video Marketing. Website Design and Development. ); • Browse & Search the Full Directory Now. • • Vendors: List/Manage Your Company. -->. FOLIO: mediaPRO. Featured Group Discussions. Personally, I detest the digital edition. New Jersey.