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29 Entrepreneurs Reveal the Pivots They’re Making in Their Business as a Result of Pandemic

Hearpreneur

After having to reduce and rethink our strategy during COVID, we observed that our community and sales have skyrocketed. Especially during challenging times, retention is significantly more crucial than acquisition. Due to that, we decided to widen our client base to increase our revenue. 14- Leveraging technology.

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Airbnb S-1 (Part 1): So How Profitable Is This Thing Really?

View from Seed

To be clear Airbnb posted a GAAP profit in Q3 2020 of over $200M which is impressive given travel remains materially depressed due to COVID. For reference, high-flying megacap tech stocks like Apple and Google have operating income margins >20% and Facebook and Microsoft have operating income margins >30%.

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How One Startup Combines Boston’s B2B Sense with the Valley’s Social Media Style

View from Seed

For those of us that have been working in the startup and technology space for at least the past 10 years, these addresses mean two things. Second: These addresses are some of the most exciting places to visit in tech because upon arriving, one can instantly see what true scale looks like in action. . — The truth is, you’re right.

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Successful Remote Work Through Asynchronous Management

Duct Tape Marketing

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Every year inbound brings together leaders across business, sales, marketing, customer success, operations, and more. And one of the things that I find super confusing is we don't have arranged marriages in North America, but we seem to have arranged friendships.

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30 Entrepreneurs Share What Makes Their Business Unique

Hearpreneur

This essentially forces you to forgo 3PL’s due to the high cost of the logistics, and the technology behind recommendation engines aren’t reliable enough to automate the process. We found that our readers were more interested in our product reviews and comparisons so we shifted to meet their needs. 2) Facebook Ads.

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30 Entrepreneurs Forecast Where Their Business Will Be In Five Years

Hearpreneur

It will be a one-stop shop for finding out about moving services, getting quotes and reviews, and booking appointments. 8- Becoming one of the most reputable tech platforms. Automation and artificial intelligence are the recently introduced technologies that are growing rapidly in the entire world. Photo Credit: Marilyn Gaskell.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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Guess which technology we have the least trouble with. You have a CEO that clearly hasn’t taken the time to understand a technology platform. who forms technology biases based on old Visual Basic stereotypes or shallow interpretations of. ability based on one of many technologies. March 25, 2011 at 1:36 pm.

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