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Stop Thinking And Acting Local: Small Businesses Seeking Growth Should See Themselves As Global Enterprises

YoungUpstarts

Overcoming Challenges of Growing Globally. For those that do, the benefits are a bigger customer base, higher revenues and higher profitability. But going global can be an intimidating prospect for some. 1 Bill Gates, Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy, March 24, 1999.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: New Assessment Tool For Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

He currently has a 1999 strategy. Green Earth Aerogels At age 16, kids have very different career counseling needs than they do at 18 kids. Last up, Fortunato Cardenas from Barcelona, Spain, presented Green Earth Aerogels , a nano-materials company in Barcelona, Spain focused on developing insulation gels from rice.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter December 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

Bravo AG, established in 1951, is a manufacturer and distributor of copper-based pesticides, a green crop protection method used in organic agriculture. Guidewire Group is a global market intelligence and advisory firm focused on technology entrepreneurship in early-stage companies and emerging technology markets. billion in 2010. .

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

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). When I was focusing more on just the green part, I used Green And Profitable. Photo Credit: Shel Horowitz.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

“Rare is the business that has a formal disaster plan, let alone one that covers a global Black Swan event.” 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. Even less does it mean high transaction volume or revenue.

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

thebarefootvc

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. As of year-end, Foursquare had over 15 million users, with an exponential growth rate globally.