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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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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. When I began practicing law I was hired by a firm where billable hours and collected fees were the only considerations for advancement.

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I Love My Job

OnlyOnce

When we started Return Path back in 1999, we sat down to write our employee handbook, and all I could think was "what things can we add in here that will make this company a unique place to work?" So many people out there don't have that match between interest, passion, skill, and reality. Not working was one thing.

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I Love My Job

OnlyOnce

When we started Return Path back in 1999, we sat down to write our employee handbook, and all I could think was "what things can we add in here that will make this company a unique place to work?" So many people out there don't have that match between interest, passion, skill, and reality. Not working was one thing.

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China’s Torch Program – the glow that can light the world (Part 2 of 5)

Steve Blank

In addition to the one in Beijing, China has set up 53 additional industrial parks and in them are ~60,000 companies with 8 million employees. They provide consulting, promotion, product testing, hiring, training and incubation services to startups. (This was the area I visited in this trip to China.) Seed Funding (Innofund).

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I Love My Job

OnlyOnce

When we started Return Path back in 1999, we sat down to write our employee handbook, and all I could think was "what things can we add in here that will make this company a unique place to work?"  So many people out there don't have that match between interest, passion, skill, and reality.    2.

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China’s Torch Program – the glow that can light the world (Part 2 of 5)

Steve Blank

In addition to the one in Beijing, China has set up 53 additional industrial parks and in them are ~60,000 companies with 8 million employees. They provide consulting, promotion, product testing, hiring, training and incubation services to startups. (This was the area I visited in this trip to China.) Seed Funding (Innofund).