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Ellison Eyewear the Multi-Billion $ Sunglass Industry

Hearpreneur

Ellison Eyewear offers designer quality sunglasses made in Greece using Italian components. Aristotle Loumis was born in Greece and grew up in Chicago, one of 8 children raised by a single parent. Aristotle still splits time between, Greece, Iowa, and Chicago, and refers to himself as “Greek born, city raised, and corn fed.”

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7 Ways Of Using An Immigrant Culture In Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet, I find them often jumping to the forefront, with many notable successes , including Elon Musk (South Africa) at Tesla, Sergey Brin (Russia) at Google, and Arianna Huffington (Greece) at the Huffington Post. It starts by not giving your company a name that means something totally offensive in some future important market.

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Top 3 Places In Europe To Live In As A Start-up Millionaire 

YoungUpstarts

Whether it is Steve Jobs, Richard Branson, Elon Musk or another rich and famous entrepreneur that has made a name for themselves worldwide, when you start up a company – you aim for the stars. Mykonos, Greece. All start-up entrepreneurs have at least one idol they look up to and say: “I wanna be that guy, when I make it”.

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Save the US from becoming Greece

David Teten

That’s why I ask you to lend your name to a statement of “ Six Standards for the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction ” (a.k.a. To add your name to the petition that will be delivered to the President and other people in a position to save us from ourselves, register on the CED site. Save the US from becoming Greece.

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25 Entrepreneurs Discuss The Entrepreneurs That Best Represents Innovation and Disruption

Hearpreneur

When I think of innovation, the name Marc pops into my mind. In 2014, Vitalik was named one of The 10 Most Influential People in Blockchain by CoinDesk and one of The 100 Most Influential People in Fintech by Apcexplorer. and the other was in Greece. Thanks to David Reid, VEM ! #9- 9- Marc Benioff. Photo Credit: Aviad Faruz.

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3 Steps To “Activate” Visitors and Convert Them To Subscribers, Leads & Customers

ConversionXL

I’m planning on going to Greece with my family this summer, so obviously the first stop is to Google “Greek travel”. This page tells me nothing about what a vacation to Greece might be like, and if my family hadn’t already made up their minds about going to Greece, we might give up on Greece all-together (think about that for a second) .

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12 Questions: Meet Nausika Georgakopoulou (Greece)

crowdSPRING Blog

Nausika lives and works in Athens Greece. My name is Nausika Georgakopoulou (hard I know! … it’s pronounced Nafsika) and I come from Greece. I live and work in Athens which is Greece’s capital. I live and work in Athens which is Greece’s capital. How has the economy affected the design industry in Greece?

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