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Salon Owner Chelle Neff Talks Scaling, Sustainability and Success

Entrepreneurs' Organization

At the start of 2020, Chelle Neff is wrapping up a decade of considerable success, growth and innovation. You opened Urban Betty in 2005 and it’s been growing ever since. Pinterest has forever changed our consultation game. I hired a consulting group called Summit that changed my life. 5000 list twice! .

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Birdzeye’s Norlock is Helping Minority Owned Businesses Gain Equal Access to North American Retail…

Jason Malki

years at Birdeye, he has managed and consulted for some of the world’s most innovative startups and categories including: Gaming (Deltaco + L33T), Tech Management (KeySmart + Cable Candy), Eco-Sustainable Materials (Zero Waste Movement?—? I started my first company when I was 23; a real estate company in Phoenix, AZ in 2005.

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Investing in New Tech Hubs

EntreWorks Consulting

Today, I attended a Capitol Hill briefing on a new Brookings/ITIF report on The Case for Growth Centers: How to Spread Tech Innovation across America. In fact, only five metro areas account for 90% of America’s innovation sector growth since 2005. I can quibble with some parts of the plan.

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Marketing Cube founder Maya Moufarek’s lessons for customer-focused startups

TechCrunch

Maya Moufarek, founder of Marketing Cube , spent more than 15 years working for companies like Google and American Express before launching her own growth consultancy. That’s why I founded MarketingCube.co , a boutique strategic growth consultancy for innovative startups and scaleups.

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All New Ideas are Combinations of Old Ideas

Tomasz Tunguz

Johannsen argues in his book that most innovation comes at the intersection of fields, and Pearson is just one example. In 2005, an economist named Benjamin Jones published a paper called The Burden of Knowledge and the ‘Death of the Renaissance Man’: Is Innovation Getting Harder?

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Joseph Lee, CEO of Kairous Capital, Shares His Cross-Border Investment Philosophy for the Asia Pacific Region

AsiaTechDaily

I initially worked as an analyst at a stock-broking firm until 2004 before embarking on my venture capital and private equity journey, where I made my first investments in Greater China before exiting via the London Stock Exchange later between 2005 and 2006.

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Hint Founder Kara Goldin Says When it Comes to Entrepreneurship, Just Get Started

StartupNation

Because of my experience at AOL, I had a reputation as an innovator in online shopping and e-commerce. Turns out the flavor business was a side project for him, and he bought the flavors from an independent consultant. I got in touch with the consultant. I called the company and was surprised to get the owner on the phone.