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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I was driven by my desire for freedom and that’s what I got; along with an amazing opportunity to help transform my employees’ and my client’s lives through homeownership and real estate. Greene, Land Carroll & Blair PC ! #20 Floralux is what makes our Restore Gel green. 12 – It was Just Time.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

It can also keep your employees employed or help you retain your job—a modicum of security in uncertain times. These companies tend to over rely on reducing the number of employees. At the same time, the company contained its operating costs and came out of the recession stronger, bigger, and more profitable than it had been in 1999.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

The Rise of Conscious Capitalism: I’ve been involved with social entrepreneurship for years through my involvement with organizations such as Echoing Green and the Unreasonable Institute , and this is the year that I saw massive growth and interest in the sector from the mainstream.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

5- Reflecting on our services, personable nature of employees and some humor. Currently, as a profitability consultant for green and social entrepreneurship businesses, I show businesses how they can go beyond mere sustainability (keeping things the same) to regenerativity (making things better). So ultimately, it was a bad name.

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Smells Like Money: The Business of Waste Management

Up and Running

In 1999, he and a business partner launched Sunshine Recycling Inc. , “We had good employees and I didn’t want to have to let them go, so I took a huge hit during that time to keep people on.” ’” Chuck Herb never planned on owning a waste management company either. is still recycled.

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Why Crunch Modes Doesn't Work: Six Lessons

www.igda.org

For them — and anyone else who wants to increase their employees productivity and sanity — lets take a look at some of the assumptions management makes regarding hours, output, efficiency, and production costs; and see how a century of industrial research has conclusively, consistently proven those assumptions wrong. Its ironic.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering. I don’t actually have any employees. I’ve got a business partner, Gideon, who was home in Brisbane in his house. In 2004 I began blogging.