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One woman’s path to financial empowerment leads the way

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Can you expand on where you got your passion for personal finance management? At the age of 21, with a nudge from my mentor, I started teaching myself how to invest in the local stock market and, as I was learning, shared my knowledge with others through a blog.

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WP Engine passes $100M in revenue and secures $250M investment from Silver Lake

A Smart Bear

This week we closed $250M in financing from Silver Lake , the premier technology private equity firm. The Silicon Valley-oriented technology press outlets don’t cover us because we’re not in San Francisco, even though we’re more successful than most of the startups they cover. Every day, 5% of the entire online world (roughly 3.5

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Growing as a Couple and a Startup

Entrepreneurs' Organization

I started the company in 2015 as a side-hustle with my old friend Mike Watts. Lindsey—who, at the time, was my girlfriend, programmer and designer—said, “I will take over the finance piece, you go sell and run the shop. Our company, Felix Media Solutions, landed a spot on the 2019 Inc. I’ll handle this side of things.”

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Four Steps to Making Customer Service an Organizational Priority

Entrepreneurs' Organization

The original version of this article appeared on Resonate’s blog. He joined EO in 2015. The post Four Steps to Making Customer Service an Organizational Priority appeared first on THE BLOG. Resonate is an Australian customer experience management (CEM) provider, founded by EO Sydney member Jeff Carruthers. .

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What’s Service Got to Do With It? Everything.

Entrepreneurs' Organization

With a 98% client-retention rate since our founding and the successful resolution of more than 20,000 IT support requests in 2015 alone, we’ve discovered the core to building a winning customer-service promise is to start with your team, particularly through employee recognition and staff-training programs. appeared first on THE BLOG.

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The Four Cities Every Startup Should Invest in Visiting

Entrepreneurs' Organization

The city made major strides in 2015, and with oil and gas investors looking to profit elsewhere, more money will be flowing into the area’s startups in 2016. The post The Four Cities Every Startup Should Invest in Visiting appeared first on THE BLOG.

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“I guess we’ll know we’ve made it when a woman can get away with behaving like Elon Musk.” Talking With VC Ashley Mayer About Finding Your Career, Taking Box Public, And Why She’s Not Interested In Reading Yet Another Female CEO Takedown

Hunter Walk

And then take your experience and turn it into a piece of thought leadership career advice to share with people reading this. We originally filed to go public in March of 2014, and didn’t actually become a public company until January of 2015. AM: Getting to work on the Box IPO was one of the coolest things I’ve ever done.

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