9 Qualities of Amazing Entrepreneurs
Posted on May 20, 2012 in Ecco golf shoes
What separates the best from everyone else? (Hint: It's not about the money.) Good entrepreneurs make money. Great entrepreneurs make serious money. But remarkable entrepreneurs do more than make money. They are the few who possess qualities that don't appear on balance sheets but do make a significant impact on the lives of their employees, industries, and communities. Here are nine qualities ...
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Embracing Failure on the Path to Success
Posted on April 23, 2012 in Easy spirit shoes
Leading entrepreneurs and innovators learn from their mistakes and accept that failures are inevitable in finding success.
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U.S. Women Entrepreneurs Lead the Global e-Commerce Marketplace
Posted on March 22, 2012 in Nike shoes
To mark National Women’s History Month in March, Alibaba.com, one of the world’s largest business-to-business online e-commerce marketplaces, today revealed site data showing that 1.1 million U.S.
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What celebrity entrepreneurs can teach us about social commerce
Posted on March 16, 2012 in Design your own shoes
The best thing about being a female entrepreneur is that you have all of the sisterhood to lean on, to learn from and with whom you can share. But we all know the scariest part of starting a business — ...
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Selling Online Products by Subscription Is All the Rage
Posted on March 08, 2012 in Memory foam shoes
In a new take on an old business model, online entrepreneurs have come up with creative ways to sell products, like dog food, that have not traditionally been sold by subscription.
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Joanne Wilson: Making It: My Address to the 2012 Women Entrepreneurs Festival
Posted on January 29, 2012 in Elf shoes
This year we chose the theme "making it". A maker is a person who creates something. Women tend to create businesses that fill a void in their lives. As women we tend to have this desire to take care of others. It is innate.
Vans Celebrates 20th Anniversary of the Half Cab Skate Shoes
Posted on January 28, 2012 in Toms shoes
Ask almost anyone who pays attention to the athletic footwear industry and they'll undoubtedly tell you that Vans is virtually synonymous with skate culture. It was a brand founded in the 1960s by what this world needs more of today, intuitive entrepreneurs.
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Do-gooders do well
Posted on January 27, 2012 in Puma shoes
Greed is not good anymore. That’s one recurring theme of “Shake the World,” a hot new book by James Marshall Reilly, 29, about a growing number of young, wealthy, socially conscious entrepreneurs who in an age of avarice, measure their own success by how much they give back.
Warby Parker may have a better 'buy one, give one' model
Posted on January 15, 2012 in Payless shoes stores
Toms Shoes popularized 'one for one' giving. Warby Parker adds training low-income local entrepreneurs to start their own businesses selling glasses at affordable prices.
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New Startup Gives Local Businesses the Kickstarter Treatment
Posted on January 06, 2012 in Clarks shoes
There's now a better way than the tip jar to show appreciation for your favorite local businesses. Lucky Ant , the latest startup to enter the crowdfunding space , hopes to do for neighborhood merchants what Kickstarter does for artists: provide a convenient, social way for small-scale entrepreneurs to tap their communities for help funding special projects. Every week, Lucky Ant will post a new ...
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Warby Parker may have a better 'buy one, give one' model
Posted on December 30, 2011 in Puma shoes
Toms Shoes popularized 'one for one' giving. Warby Parker adds training low-income local entrepreneurs to their own businesses selling glasses at affordable prices.
After Square One
Posted on December 26, 2011 in Keen shoes
[image2] The bottom: Many of us have been there at one point, whether it's from being born into a disadvantaged situation, or later in life, when things fall apart due to bad decisions or to circumstance. But the local entrepreneurs, business...
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Warby Parker may have a better 'buy one, give one' model
Posted on December 24, 2011 in Clarks shoes
Toms Shoes popularized 'one for one' giving. Warby Parker adds training low-income local entrepreneurs to start their own businesses selling glasses at affordable prices.
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Adidas Sale Dec 12-16,2011 at UP Diliman
Posted on December 13, 2011 in Puma shoes
Categories: Life In The Metro , Promos , Shopping , Sports Tags: adidas , diliman , Sale , UP Brought to you by the UP Circle of Entrepreneurs, the ADIDAS SALE happens on Dec. 12 – 16, 2011 from 8am to 5pm at the UP Balay Kalinaw, UP Campus, Diliman QC. Get up to 50% off on great Adidas apparels and shoes. ( Read more... )
Valley a breeding ground for the business minded
Posted on December 11, 2011 in Rockport men shoes
The Fraser Valley is fertile ground for entrepreneurs it seems.
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4 Young Social Good Entrepreneurs to Watch
Posted on December 06, 2011 in Clarks shoes
The Commerce With a Conscience Series is supported by FedEx. FedEx does more than shipping. They offer solutions like transporting heart valves to those in need and helping entrepreneurs bring their ideas to life. See how.
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Shoe company gives social strategy presentation
Posted on December 06, 2011 in Toms shoes
Candice Kislack, TOMS chief and mission officer, will present the strategy and impact of the company's social entrepreneurship, during the "One for One: Building Communities One Step at
Cisco pledges support for UK tech community after Olympics
Posted on November 30, 2011 in Dsw shoes
The hi-tech industry has a central role to play in the economic growth of the UK, according to Cisco, both in helping young people to learn the necessary skills to get jobs in IT, and in fostering innovation and entrepreneurship within the SMB and start-up community.
Shoe company gives social strategy presentation
Posted on November 24, 2011 in Payless shoes stores
Candice Kislack, TOMS chief and mission officer, will present the strategy and impact of the company's social entrepreneurship, during the "One for One: Building Communities One Step at
A Credit Crisis in China's Most Enterprising City Is Making the Country Nervous
Posted on November 22, 2011 in Merrill shoes
Wenzhou is known for making shoes, buttons, eyeglasses, electric switches, water valves and 70% of the world's cigarette lighters. But its most famous product is entrepreneurs. Hemmed in by mountains and with little arable land, this city on China's southeastern coast has relied on trade for centuries. Even in the Maoist era, when capitalism came under sustained and violent attack, private ...
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