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Don’t Roll out the Red Carpet on the Way out the Door

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When we started our next company, Koral, Ryan was a co-founder. I think we started working together in 2003 when he was new in the UK from South Africa. When we were acquried by Salesforce.com he went on to be the team technical lead and has steadily performed well there moving up in his role and responsibilities.

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The Pain Of Two-Minute Tasks

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Pieter is CEO and co-founder of Macanta Software Ltd and a small business systems & automation expert. Pieter was born and raised in South Africa, moving to the UK in 1997. About this episode: In this episode of the Agency Spark Podcast, Sara talks with Pieter K de Villiers on the pain of two-minute tasks.

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15 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

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Our name, Lubanzi, comes from a wandering dog that followed me and my co-founder on a 6 day, 100 mile trip hiking across South Africa’s remote Wild Coast. Photo Credit: Charlie Brain. There’s some poetic justice in that.

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I’m Shelia Fitzgerald, owner and founder of EliteFitz, a destination inspired women’s boutique. We have an amazing co-parenting style that works for both of us, and we’re both happy. Thanks to Emily Reynolds, founder of R PR Firm ! #4 I’m the founder of Lime Inc., Thanks to Nick Gray, Museum Hack ! #2

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Upfront Ventures Adds Hamet Watt as New Investment Partner

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He reached out to younger founders and offered to help via his network at AT&T, Google, media agencies … you name it. Hamet started his career in Venture Capital working for the first post-apartheid VC fund in South Africa. And he followed through. So he had had a taste of it.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

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Airbnb founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia had difficulty securing funding, so they launched a mini project to build some funds and catch investors' attention. Using this capital , the founders launched and enjoyed exponential growth in their first year, with 10K users and thousands of listings. Photo Credit: Jack Underwood.

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Are DMs the new Cold Calls?

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He's the co-founder and CMO of flowchat.com, a software tech company that is refined how people use dms for business agency owners and founders Turn to Flow Chat to set up an effective social selling system using dms seeking automation and one click power. Is this John Jantsch My guest today is Sean Malone. Where do we start?