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It’s Not the End: Why Creating an Exit Strategy Sets Your Business Up for Long-Term Success

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Twitter is an interesting case study because it played out on the public stage,” Paterson notes. Yahoo refused to buy Google for $1 billion in 1998 and again refused $5 billion in 2002. In 2023, Google has a market cap of $1.7 And sadly, in 2008 Yahoo turned down an offer to be acquired by Microsoft for $44.6 billion.”

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Life Is Not a Movie

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Diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2002, Ebert, “the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism,” according to The Pulitzer Prizes , came through with what was considered flying colors. Frankly, it was hard to know when he slept, since his Twitter account, @ebertchicago , was generally updated every hour or so. Insightful.

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Local SEO: Four Tips for Ranking High in Your City

Andrea Kalli

Complete the New Client Questionnaire Subscribe to the Blog by Email Subscribe to the Blog by RSS 10 Most Popular Posts More silly little alt code symbols for Twitter - 35 comments Time to Jazz Up Your Website Social Buttons? -

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More on the Growth of Small Farms and Local Food

Small Business Labs

Follow us on Twitter Emergent Research EMERGENT RESEARCH is focused on better understanding the small business sector of the US and global economy. Authors The authors are Steve King and Carolyn Ockels. We cover small farms and local food - part of the broader new localism movement - in our Small Farms category. 

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Green Gift Giving: Soda Stream Review & Giveaway!

Eco-Office Gals

The energy required to make water bottles in the US only, is equivalent to 17 million barrels of oil (Container Recycling Institute, 2002). Follow @ sodastreamusa on Twitter or become a Fan on Facebook and comment that you did. Also, an estimated 4.7 Blog about this giveaway and link back to this post. Tweet this giveaway.

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Product/Program Promotion Problems and Profits -- Launching Lessons Learned Expert Interview

Stephanie LH Calahan

From 2002 - 2006 she co-owned and built the largest Long Island, NY. You can find andrea on Twitter: https://twitter.com/coachandrea. A business owner of 24 years, Andrea has an M.B.A. marketing, is a Certified Professional Behavior Analyst, Certified EQ. Mentor and Certified Strategic Business Leadership Coach. Associates. Time NOW!”.

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Logo Lift – 5 Signs Your Logo Needs a Facelift

Small Business CEO

A firestorm of Gap trash-talking ignited on Facebook and Twitter. But in 2002, Firefox was named Phoenix, and its logo was a red bird with flames for feathers. ’ Gap customers roared in disapproval. Within a week, Gap reverted to their old logo, tail between their legs. Where did Gap go wrong? But, it’s a careful process.

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