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Jeff Bezos wants to delight you
Jeff Bezos has a big laugh. It's a shotgun; a booming sound that reverberates through a room. It can be a little scary, actually. It is not subtle, gentle, or otherwise restrained. But when he does laugh — which is often — it is a laugh trained squarely on the room. Not inward, but outward. A laugh that says: there's fun to be had, so join in.
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4 Things Most Successful Entrepreneurs Have in Common
Although there is no one-size-fits-all approach, successful entrepreneurs seem to share several traits that the rest of the pack lacks.
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Pirate Joe's Celebrates Dismissal Of Trader Joe's Lawsuit
A U.S. judge granted Pirate Joe's motion to dismiss a trademark infringement lawsuit this week.
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5 Ways Face to Face Meetings Are Better for Business
Social media and online networking have revolutionized business. But are there times when face to face meetings are still beneficial? You bet.
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These crazy inventions are the latest sign that entrepreneurship in China is alive and well
From gunpowder to paper or ice cream, Chinese leaders like to showcase how many world-changing inventions have originated in their country. But for every huge breakthrough there are lots of quirkier ones that never made it big. A submarine that catches sea cucumbers? A funnel that helps people pee straight? A bicycle that rides on water via plastic tubes?
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What’s a “Shark Tank” Appearance Worth? A Top Spot in the App Store.
Garrett Gee’s startup Scan didn’t necessarily need the $1 million he was pitching investors for on Friday night’s episode of ABC’s entrepreneurship show, “Shark Tank.” After all, Gee had recently raised $7 million at a $21 million valuation for Scan from Google Ventures, Menlo Ventures, and Entree Capital.
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Mark Cuban Cleared of Insider Trading
A federal jury in Dallas ruled on Wednesday that Mark Cuban did not commit insider trading when he dumped his stake in an Internet company, clearing the billionaire entrepreneur of wrongdoing and dealing a blow to the federal agency that Mr. Cuban battled tooth and nail for five years.
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Complete guide to sales
A complete guide to sales from Phoenix
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“There were 17,000 YouTubes before YouTube”
I know an entrepreneur who launched an online video platform in 1998. It never took off, and went out of business within two years. He still tells people he invented YouTube.
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I bought an apartment to rent out on airbnb
In 2012 I bought an apartment specifically to rent out on airbnb. I’ve been managing it remotely for the past year. This post includes everything I learned as well as some revenue numbers.
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Released From Prison, and Starting a Company
Like most entrepreneurs, Frederick Hutson cannot resist trying to solve a thorny problem. His company, Pigeonly, based in Las Vegas, taps an underserved and “captive” market by offering prison inmates an easy and efficient way to receive photos from loved ones and to make phone calls to them inexpensively. “Isolation is the worst thing for an inmate,” Mr. Hutson said. “It makes it hard for him to rebuild his life when he gets out.”
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Montreal's reelyActive wins global startup competition, named ‘world's best startup.’
Canada's reelyActive was named 'World's Best Technology Startup' tonight at the grand final competition of Startup World, an initiative to promote startups and entrepreneurship globally.
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Twitter IPO: why the wrong people ended up with the money
Aditya Chakrabortty: If you think the social media company's stockmarket flotation is an advert for starting your own hi-tech company, just look at what happened to the founders
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Why Silicon Valley Funds Instagrams, Not Hyperloops
This week Elon Musk announced plans for his new Hyperloop transportation system. If you haven’t seen it in the news: it’s basically a giant tube that you sit inside of while…
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Travelers Rent Their Cars Out At Airports, In A New Business Model
A service lets travelers leave their car at the airport — and rent it out while they're away.
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8 Tech Companies That Turned Down Huge Buyouts
This week Snapchat founders Evan Spiegel, 23, and Bobby Murphy, 25, made headlines by rejecting a reported $3 billion offer from Facebook. Will they regret it?
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10 Ways to Finance a New Business
Luckily, you're not the first entrepreneur to start with nothing but a good idea. Keep reading to learn about 10 effective and creative ways to raise start-up capital for your new business.
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Avoiding Winding up Petition and Saving Your Company Assets
The best advice you could take if a threat of winding up petition arrive at your office and you could not do anything about it is voluntarily winding up your business. This trick can prevent your asset to be taken and save your position as the director.
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Amazon wants to use drones by 2018. An Australian startup will do it by March
Back in October, PandoDaily broke the news that Zookal, a textbook rental startup based in Sydney, had helped form a joint venture called Flirtey to enable delivery by unmanned aerial vehicles. Australia was the first country in the world to allow private drone use, meaning it has a head start on the US, whose FAA won’t release rules on commercial drones until 2015.
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Dropbox-Rival Box Is Raising $100M In New Funding At A $2B Valuation
Enterprise cloud file storage firm Box is raising an additional $100 million in capital at a valuation of around $2 billion. A filing with the State of Delaware was first noticed by VC Experts. We’ve heard from sources that Box is indeed raising a new round, at a $2 billion-plus valuation. The company raised $125 million in June of 2012 at a valuation of roughly $1 billion.
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