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SuperMac War Story 9: Sales, Not Awards « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

SuperMac sold our graphic boards for the Macintosh through multiple distribution channels: direct sales to major accounts, national chains, independent rep firms, etc. But the computer retail channel was a large part of our sales. Oh yes, and retail sales doubled with the new product packaging.

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21 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Durant lost control of GM to a bankers' trust just two years later, in 1910, due to enormous debt and a crumble in automobile sales. Treasury invested $50 billion in General Motors a month later and made $39 billion from the sale of its shares later that. He has also been named CEO of the Shark Group, a brand consultancy firm.

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Burn the bridges behind.

Berkonomics

I used my employee discount that last day to purchase a Compaq luggable computer and drove with my brother to Las Vegas. My sales tax payments were due in the next few days, and I didn’t have the money. But I did have an appointment, a sales opportunity the next morning. I made the sale, and paid my debts.

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26 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments in 2017

Hearpreneur

But it’s rewarding to see our customers so excited about the product, and the huge growth in sales from last year has been encouraging. 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. 7- Major appointment. environment.

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8 Online Businesses Disrupting Their Industry

YoungUpstarts

Only operating in certain cities (London, New York, Las Vegas), the app hones in on the idea that busy city-dwellers don’t like to plan events too far in advance, which has proven to be a hit as in November the company raised $24 million.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

All of you people who haven’t seen my blog, please remember my name or that website address. This was the first spot, the Hoover Dam in Las Vegas. The biggest deal I’ve ever done was a sale of a $100,000 website. I changed the name, by the way, to MTGParadise.com. His name is Kai Budde. He’s German.

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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). Seven is a very important number to me?—?the