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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments in 2019

Hearpreneur

2019 may have been a bad year for some and to others, it was a great year. Many businesses were launched and others were closed. In the last few days of 2019, we took some time to ask a few entrepreneurs and business what their biggest business accomplishments were. #1- Pivots were made and goals were shattered.

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U.C. Santa Cruz Commencement Speech – 2019

Steve Blank

Deciding between the applicants, their lobbyists, the environmental community, the staff, the coastal act and the law. The business model for real estate developers isn’t hard to understand – they buy farms and ranches then build houses and sell them off. But why serve your community, state or country?

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SXSW Startups: Steamchain

Austin Startup

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 5, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. They enable new business models that bring purpose to clients’ IIoT investments by connecting financial transactions to machinery performance.

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10 Things that 3 Customer-Centric Brands Get Right

ConversionXL

They applied a community-powered business model to the mobile sector, similar to that of Wikipedia, hence the name “giffgaff,” which means “mutual giving.”. Let customers help answer big business questions. Changing that dynamic was hard, not just within the business but also for our community.

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18 Entrepreneurs Discuss Whether or Not There Will Be More Entrepreneurs in the Future

Hearpreneur

If these new entrepreneurs decide to continue with their newly found business, they’d be an addition to a huge community of entrepreneurs and I, as a business owner myself who started in humble beginnings, is proud and ready to welcome them in the entrepreneurial world. 5- More due to low costs.

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Snyk: How Freemium Can Help Your Start-up Grow from Series A to $2.6B in 30 Months

Cracking the Code

Accel had the chance to lead Snyk’s Series A 30 months ago and then the Series B a year later, before the company reached unicorn status with its $150m Series C in late 2019. Here’s a short summary of the discussion: Guy, you launched Snyk in 2015, and a large part of your success was driven by your freemium model.

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8 Key Disciplines Are Essential To Scale Any Business

Startup Professionals Musings

With the real data from that surge, you need to take a hard look at business model realities, cost of customer acquisition, inventory costs, and other key metrics. Here is my summary of the key focus activities of that challenge for every business owner: Manage cash flow daily and plot a plan to profitability.