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Build a Moneymaking Franchise

European Wax Center's David Coba (with his siblings) turned a disastrous sideline of his fathers salon business into a national franchise. Though his franchising company now boasts 215 salons, David Coba entered the industry rather reluctantly

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VCs to Stem Med-Tech Investment

The FDA's regulatory process is the major reason and a report calls it a threat to investment to U.S. medical innovation

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VCs to Stem Med-Tech Investment

The FDA's regulatory process is the major reason and a report calls it a threat to investment to U.S. medical innovation.

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Ask.com CTO Lisa Kavanaugh On Teaching An Old Answer Site Brand-New Tricks

"We are no longer a general purpose search engine," Kavanaugh tells us. Instead, Ask.com uses proprietary, semantic search technology to deliver answers from it's own content banks, community, experts, and from all over the web. Today, Google captures nearly 65% of all U.S.

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Becoming More Skype Savvy via Recording Apps

I conduct many interviews via phone, such as with Clayton Christensen , Sunni Brown , MailChimp’s CEO Ben Chestnut , Adrian Slywotzky and Geoffrey Moore . I love phone interviews because I can learn a plethora of information from really interesting people in a fairly short period of time.

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Becoming More Skype Savvy via Recording Apps

I conduct many interviews via phone, such as with Clayton Christensen , Sunni Brown , MailChimp’s CEO Ben Chestnut , Adrian Slywotzky and Geoffrey Moore . I love phone interviews because I can learn a plethora of information from really interesting people in a fairly short period of time.

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Seth Godin: You Should Date Your Customers

The marketing expert offers his tips today at the World Business Forum on what innovative marketers are doing to lure new customers to their brands. "Have we branded ourselves to death?" Seth Godin asked the audience Thursday at the World Business Forum in New York City

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More Inc. 5000 Conference Love from Council Members

At this year's Inc. 5000 Conference, I had the distinct pleasure of running a debate between two great entrepreneurs: Phil Patrick of PharmaStrat and Jay Goltz of The Goltz Group .

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More Inc. 5000 Conference Love from Council Members

At this year's Inc. 5000 Conference, I had the distinct pleasure of running a debate between two great entrepreneurs: Phil Patrick of PharmaStrat and Jay Goltz of The Goltz Group .

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Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs On The Fate Of Firefox In A Mobile Era

Firefox is one of the world's most popular desktop browsers, with more than 450 million users. But as the world increasingly turns to mobile devices to access the web, Mozilla is in danger of getting left in the dust. A recent Pew report found that roughly 68% of all smartphone owners access the mobile web on a typical day; what's more, 25% of those users go online mostly using their phone (rather than, say, a PC)

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Mexican Narcogangs’ War On Digital Media

Three brutal murders of Internet users shed light on Mexican narcogangs' monitoring of social media and the new dangers of blogging or commenting online in Mexico. In late September, police found the body of Nuevo Laredo resident Marisol Macias Castenada, a 39-year-old office manager for the city's Primera Hora newspaper, dumped on a bridge about a mile from the U.S. border

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Why It’s Good to Fail Fast

Stella and Dot founder Jessica Herrin explains why her early failure was responsible for her future success. Jessica Herrin wanted to change the game of home sales. She wanted it very badly, and dreamed of exporting an entrepreneurial platform to other women

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