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How To Take the Guesswork Out of Scaling

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In 2011, Irish SaaS firm Intercom had a churn problem and found the solution by understanding the customer’s job. Contributed to EO by Zac Stucki, the founder of Homeric Consulting. It gives your offerings pull. They attract clients because they’re just so dang good. You can make your operations more efficient and profitable than ever.

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3 new ways to empower your entrepreneurial community

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Culturally competent consulting service provider ThirdEye Network. In 2011, the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce had a bold vision: to make Kansas City America’s most entrepreneurial city. NLC’s municipal action guide The Future of Cities: A Roadmap to Inclusive Entrepreneurship. Make your ecosystem adaptable.

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The secret to doing great reference calls

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Before I learned how to do them properly, they were purely factual in nature, “Hey, did Jim work with you from 2011 to 2013? These days, I would not even consider making an investment, hiring a staff member or taking a job (or a serious, multimonth consulting engagement) without doing three reference calls. What was his job title?”

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Bangladesh-based Maya, a startup focused on accessible healthcare, raises $2.2 million seed round

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Founder and chief executive officer Ivy Huq Russell, who grew up in Chittagong and Dhaka before moving to the United Kingdom for university, started Maya as a blog with healthcare information in 2011. These are topics users are often hesitant seeking in-person consultations for. At the time, Russell worked in finance.

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Kate Morgan: Leadership vs. Entrepreneurship

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That creative piece of the brain helped me envision a thriving consulting firm in a space that was not formerly pursued. ” As Founder and CEO of Boston Human Capital Partners, Kate Morgan started her consulting firm in 2011, on the heels of the recession. My mind leans right.

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Inbenta, a provider of AI-powered chatbots and more, lands $40M

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In 2011, Jordi Torras, a former Oracle VP, had a realization: Companies weren’t optimizing their search technologies as well as they could be. He founded Inbenta to solve this, providing professional consulting services while simultaneously developing an internal AI toolkit for search optimization.

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Startup Business Funding: 5 Business-Breaking Misconceptions

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In 2011, he founded Pota-Toss, a Kickstarter-funded iOS game, released on the App Store on October 2012. The company then evolved into Saborstudio, a digital marketing consulting agency. Jose “Caya” Cayasso is the co-founder and CEO of Slidebean , an automated, AI-powered, cloud-based presentation tool.

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