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Dog Walking Company Wag Raises $300 Million

Small Business Labs

Key quote from the article: "Data on the real-world comings and goings of internet users — and, evidently, their dogs — is a highly sought-after commodity among technology companies." We've been writing about it's growing value since 2007.  " We don't need to be convinced of the value of data.

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Once Upon a Time in Marketing: The Power of Storytelling

Success

Position your employees as the hero of the company story to achieve goals, identify vendors and partners as the hero to bolster synergies, or find ways to insert the customer into the role of hero or heroine. What saddens Smith is that this story was never shared outside the company. “A Case Studies. Trupanion: Making insurance cuddly.

2003 279
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4 Books to Help You Reflect, Replenish and Grow this Month

Success

Authors Elliott Bisnow, Brett Leve, Jeff Rosenthal and Jeremy Schwartz are the founders of Summit, a global events company that has worked with Jeff Bezos, Shonda Rhimes, Brené Brown and Kendrick Lamar. Andy Dunn founded the men’s clothing company Bonobos in 2007 as a student in his second year at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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SUCCESS Celebrates 125 Years of Progress, Positive Thinking and Personal Growth

Success

Marden helmed the magazine until 1912, at which point the publication was acquired by The National Post Company, which published The National Post , a more politically driven bi-weekly magazine. Then, following an ownership change in 2007, SUCCESS named another woman to the post of chief editor: Deborah Heisz. “I

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No Pain, No Gain: Theragun Founder Jason Wersland on the Power of Word-of-Mouth Marketing

Success

The ubiquity of the Theragun—an industry-defining home-massage tool from the wellness company now known as Therabody —makes it feel like this was an overnight success story. The invention of the Theragun In 2007, Wersland—a chiropractor who’s always had an entrepreneurial spirit—suffered a terrible motorcycle accident.

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Look for Long-Term Triumphs

Success

It was 2007, and the global economy was spiraling toward a massive recession. Acceleration Partners has previously been ranked among the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. The company drove over $7.3 It took patience, but the business took off. billion in revenue for their clients in 2022 alone.

2005 248
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Housecleaning in Word 2007: Customizing your Dictionary

Laughing all the Way to Work

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 31 January, 2009 Housecleaning in Word 2007: Customizing your Dictionary Something you should do every once in awhile is to clean up your dictionary in Word. One of the best kept secrets in Word 2007 is the Word Options button. Wow.this tip almost makes me want to upgrade to 2007 *laughs*.

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