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09-02-2010
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So, there's Apple's new social network for iTunes called Ping. It was just announced this week and as Steve Jobs himself described it; it's "like Facebook and Twitter meet iTunes."........
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09-02-2010
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Every business owner likes to think that he or she has a commitment to quality. If that were truly the case, of course, no product would ever disappoint, and no service would result in a compla........
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09-01-2010
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Steve Jobs just wrapped up another keynote–Chris Martin from Coldplay is playing a little send-........
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09-01-2010
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Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today:........
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09-01-2010
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Dear Norm,
In October, I parted ways with my former employer. I have decided to start my own business creating mobile websites and apps for businesses. The trouble is, I have no idea how to s........
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09-01-2010
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My software company, 37signals, is nearly 11 years old. But until now, it's never really had a place to call its own. For much of that time, we've been positively nomadic.........
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09-01-2010
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During a summer hike with his son, Steve, in 1990, Kent Savage proposed they start a business that would distribute products made from recycled content. Over the next decade, they built Boulder, Color........
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09-01-2010
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Having launched two tech companies and a consulting business in Cary, North Carolina, Glen Lang decided to take on a different kind of challenge: politics. After Lang was elected mayor of Cary, he got........
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09-01-2010
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Lexicon Consulting, in El Cajon, California, got its start by providing extras for big-screen military battles. Now CEO Jamie Arundell-Latshaw's company creates mock Afghan and Iraqi villages to help ........
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09-01-2010
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Dear Norm,
I have a company of about 40 employees, who are dedicated and passionate about what they do. Most of them are motivated by the company's culture and mission. In the past year, I ha........
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09-01-2010
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1. Get in over your head. --Robert Donat, GPS Insight No. 281........
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09-01-2010
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There was a song we Girl Scouts used to sing as we swayed in sisterly harmony around the campfire. It went like this: "Make new friends, but keep the old/ One is silver and the other gold." I know.........
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09-01-2010
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A widely quoted statistic gets to the heart of the value proposition behind customer service: The cost of acquiring a new customer is five times that of retaining an existing one. For businesses that ........
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09-01-2010
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Luke & Associates
16,636.6% Three-Year Growth
Revenue: $37.5 Million
Employees: 588
CEO: James Barfield
Founded: 2004
Overall RANK: No. 3
Merritt I........
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09-01-2010
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Raj Prasad
WDFA Marketing • No. 5
Prasad was born in Fiji and moved to the U.S. at 2. He land........
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09-01-2010
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Amy Gonzales, a geologist and wetlands scientist, played mentor to Kelly Caldwell, a biologist, at their former employer, for which they did environmental-impact studies of proposed gas pipelines and ........
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09-01-2010
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It was late August 2007, and Michael Ortner and Rakesh Chilakapati, co-founders of Capterra, had gathered a handful of key managers for a meeting in the company's small conference room. As the ........
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09-01-2010
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Not every entrepreneur is eager to take on the federal government. Gabriel Krajicek, CEO of BancVue, did it because he had no choice. BancVue, based in Austin, provides community banks and credit unio........
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09-01-2010
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Bill Bartmann has known great success, but he is best remembered for losing some $3.5 billion in paper wealth and his status as one of the richest people in the U.S. That was 12 years ago, when his de........
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09-01-2010
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When Ryan Abood looked at the books for his parents' New Hampshire flower shop, one number popped out. Without a bit of advertising, sales of gift baskets had grown 400 percent. For a year and a half,........
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09-01-2010
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Arranging medical appointments is a trivial task, except when the patients are inmates who must travel under guard and without prior notice so they can't plot an escape. In 2006, Jerry Heftler ditched........
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09-01-2010
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As a psychologist and a tenured professor who specialized in researching and devising strategies for teaching troubled children, Stewart Pisecco was doing the work he loved. But then he had an idea fo........
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09-01-2010
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Michael Penny had never been interested in business. For two decades, he lived in an ashram, a secluded spiritual compound in which he practiced yoga and sought purity and simplicity. But when a scand........
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09-01-2010
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Jean Orelien left his native Haiti in 1980 and later made his way to the U.S. to attend college. He stayed on, earning advanced degrees in statistics and public health. In 2001, Orelien founded SciMet........
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09-01-2010
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Jessica DiLullo Herrin co-founded the prominent wedding website WeddingChannel at 24, and for the next few years, she devoted almost all her waking hours to her start-up. Her next business had to be d........
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09-01-2010
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WDFA Marketing
13,969.5% Three-Year Growth
Revenue: $17.9 Million
Employees: 46
CEO: Raj Prasad
Founded: 2006
Overall RANK: No. 5
San Francisco
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09-01-2010
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Listen Up Español
6,914.1% Three-Year Growth
Revenue: $14.9 Million
Employees: 1,200
Co-founders: Craig Handley and Anthony Ricciardi
Founded: 2006
Ov........
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09-01-2010
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MaxLinear
8,784.1% Three-Year Growth
Revenue: $51.4 Million
Employees: 146
CEO: Kishore Seendripu
Founded: 2003
Overall RANK: No. 17
Carlsbad, Calif. <........
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09-01-2010
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Direct Exteriors
2,723.8% Three-Year Growth
Revenue: $5.5 Million
Employees: 32
President: Mike McAlpin
Founded: 2003
Overall RANK: No. 91
Maple Grove,........
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09-01-2010
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Scentsy
8,094.1% Three-Year Growth
Revenue: $178.4 Million
Employees: 424
CEO: Orville Thompson
Founded: 2004
Overall RANK: No. 19
Meridian, Idaho
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09-01-2010
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Appareo Systems
1,751.9% Three-Year Growth
Revenue: $5.5 Million
Employees: 57
CEO: Barry Batcheller
Founded: 2003
Overall RANK: No. 159
Fargo, N.D.
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09-01-2010
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CleanScapes
1,119.3% Three-Year Growth
Revenue: $38.6 Million
Employees: 260
President: Chris Martin
Founded: 1997
Overall RANK: No. 274
Seattle
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09-01-2010
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Debt Free Associates
12,376.2% Three-Year Growth
Revenue: $26.2 Million
Employees: 46
CEO: Bradley Smith
Founded: 2006
Overall RANK: No. 7
Oklahoma Cit........
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