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21 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Henry Sy, the guy behind the world-famous SM Malls, is a household name in the Philippines. He has also been named CEO of the Shark Group, a brand consultancy firm. billion in revenue annually. Trader's Joe is his store's name. As soon as Smith's funds dwindled down to $5,000, he decided to gamble with it in Las Vegas.

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26 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments in 2017

Hearpreneur

One of my major accomplishments of 2017 is being named Chair of the Public Relations and Communications Committee for The Los Angeles South Chamber of Commerce. One of the biggest electronic music festivals, Electric Daisy Carnival, is hosted in Las Vegas every year and brings in hundreds of thousands of attendees.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

Both Sides of the Table

David Cohen deserves much credit for building TechStars into an internationally recognized brand name for innovation. A key deal not only helps you raise venture capital but it can help attract employees, garner press attention, help with product focus & importantly drive customer adoption and/or revenue. We know it can be done.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #7: A call to action for CEOs on selling

Austin Startup

The largest exit we received this year was from BounceX (formerly named Bounce Exchange), which has a very strong selling culture from the CEO down. If you haven’t read about why, here is my post that explains the name in detail (hint: it is about a truly amazing woman, my mom). What is more important than bringing in revenue?

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5 Entrepreneurs Explain What They’re Doing for March Madness

Hearpreneur

While sports events that are one day often draw lots of eyeballs and a lot of revenue from commercials, there are also opportunities for companies and businesses to market their products and services during this exciting time. We asked a few entrepreneurs and business owners what they were doing for March Madness to help their business. #1

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Product design debt versus Technical debt

andrewchenblog.com

Why homepages becomes a Las Vegas visual experience Incrementally-developed UIs that are never refactored often turn into a Las Vegas visual experience over time. Ya know, something that looks like this: Why does Vegas look this way? You could have named it “User Experience Debt&#. what a coincidence.

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

And then from there, I was running a fitness company on the west coast by the name of 24 Hour Fitness, which was private equity backed and quite a bit of debt. I think about this in customers and protecting your employees and customers, always protect your P&L, your revenue. So, how are you investing in being even better?