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Will The Cascade Of Bank Collapses Break The Coworking Industry?

Allwork

The last time thousands of small businesses went bankrupt in a short period of time was in the dot.com crash of 2001, and it had a profound effect on the coworking industry.

2023 342
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5 Minutes With… Malcolm Trotter

The Small Business Blog

Since 2001, Malcolm has been employed by the IAB (International Association… Read the full article here: 5 Minutes With… Malcolm Trotter on: THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG. Welcome to the latest in an ongoing series of entrepreneur interviews for The Small Business Blog. These short Q and A sessions are conducted by myself and feature some of the most exciting figures in the business world. Our latest interviewee is Malcolm Trotter.

2013 222
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The Impenetrable Tech Industry May Have Met Its Match

Allwork

We compare investor negative sentiment on tech today to what we have seen only 2 other times in our decades of covering tech stocks: 2008 and 2001,” said Dan Ives, an analyst at Wedbush. .

2022 130
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How Michael J. Fox Finds Ways Around Life’s Obstacles

Success

Fox Show on NBC represented Fox’s first full-time TV gig since he left Spin City in 2001. Twins Aquinnah and Schuyler were born in 1995, six years after big brother Sam; daughter Esmé came along in 2001. Hollywood loves a good story, and few have a better one than Michael J.

2023 251
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The Leadership Gene

Success

It was the summer of 2001. Showing an example of leadership landed me a job. Just not in a way you might think. I always plan to show up early for every appointment, just in case.

2023 233
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The Digitialization of Jobs

Small Business Labs

workforce in all industries since 2001. Brookings recently released an interesting study on Digitalization and the American workforce.    The report: " presents a detailed analysis of changes in the digital content of 545 occupations covering 90 percent of the U.S. The analysis categorizes U.S. occupations into jobs that require high, medium or low digital skills and tracks the impacts of rapid change." " The study findings show the U.S.

2017 175
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‘Suffering Is What Makes Life Beautiful’

Success

He started another company, myMatrixx, a pharmacy benefits firm, in 2001 and sold it in 2017, exiting with $250 million. Entrepreneur Steve MacDonald inched his way up Cotopaxi, a 20,000-foot tall volcano in Ecuador.

2021 272
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How I Lost $3 Million in 24 Hours and Bounced Back

Success

It all started in 2001 when I launched a service business based on just an idea. It was 2010. I was waiting for the most important call of my life. I had been working on a massive deal for 18 months and if everything panned out, my company would make just over a million dollars.

2022 221
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What MLB Pitcher Jon Lester and 4 Other Professional Athletes Teach Us About Overcoming Obstacles

Success

But just three years later, in 2001, she was struck by a car on her way back to school from swim practice, and lost her left leg at the knee as a result. It was just back pain. That’s what Boston Red Sox pitcher Jon Lester kept telling himself.

2022 252
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How Badly Do You Want the Life You Dream About?

Success

In October 2001, with three children under 4 (including an 8-week-old), I moved from Australia to Dallas with my husband, Andrew, who’d been offered a job. Have you ever held back from making a change or taking a chance, afraid of what might happen if you did?

2022 295
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If You Think You’re Unbiased, You’re Wrong

Success

The Market Development Group the company launched to identify sales and support opportunities tied to women- and minority-owned businesses resulted in $300 million in new revenue in 2001. In 1996 Anne Marie Scharer found herself seated behind a large screen, French horn in hand.

2023 203
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8 Best E-Commerce Books for the New Entrepreneur [2021]

Success

In fact, he launched his first e-commerce business from his childhood bedroom in 2001. Starting and growing an e-commerce can seem daunting. The skills for growing a successful online business go far beyond creating a great e-commerce website.

2021 245
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The State of the VC Industry - Fewer Firms, More Funding

Small Business Labs

 Key quote from the report: 200 funds invested in five or more deals in 2014, 4% fewer than in 2013 and 83% fewer than in 2001. TrueBridge Capital Partners recently released a report on the State of the Venture Capital Industry. It covers venture capital firm fundraising, investments, valuations, exits, and returns with a focus on 2014, but also has a lot of historical data. A couple of charts jumped out at me. The first is the number of active VC firms.

2015 164
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Marcus Buckingham: The 2 Questions Every Leader Needs to Ask

On The Job

Buckingham, who co-wrote the best-selling “ Now, Discover Your Strengths ” in 2001, says that the leaders and organizations that embrace a strengths-based workplace are the ones that will be successful and will be the key to employee engagement and learning. It seems a little odd when Marcus Buckingham states emphatically that leadership is “going away.”

2015 159
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Tech of the week: Seat Guru

Practically Perfect PA

In October 2001, frequent flyer Matthew Daimler launched SeatGuru.com with a single colour-coded interactive airplane seating chart. What is Seat Guru. Having experienced firsthand the vast differences between airline seats, he was determined to collect this useful information and share it with other travellers. In 2007, SeatGuru was purchased by TripAdvisor , and they now have seating charts for practically every airline. Seat Guru is a website and you can also download their app.

2016 133
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Practically Perfect PA Giveaway: DiamondAir Winner

Practically Perfect PA

Since 2001 DiamondAir International has been the world’s leading provider of the finest luxury airport services to over 500 destinations worldwide, including London Heathrow and London City Airport , rail stations, ports and other transport hubs. Thank you to everyone who entered the DiamondAir competition! I can now announce the winner … drum roll please… it is: Sophia Hutchings. Congratulations Sophia! We will contact you to get your details. DiamondAir International.

2015 124
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Has the U.S. Reached Peak Car?

Small Business Labs

 An interesting study from the Frontier Group found that between 2001 and 2009 the average yearly number of miles driven by 16-34 year olds had fallen 23%. An interesting series of studies out of the University of Michigan's Transportation Research Institute found that Americans are driving less and using less fuel than in the past.   The most recent study, Has Motorization in the U.S. Peaked?

2014 140
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Non-Profits vs. For-Profits for Social Change

Small Business Labs

  According to the Urban Institute : Between 2001 and 2011, the number of nonprofits has increased 25 percent; from 1,259,764 million to 1,574,674 million today. Rieva Lesonsky's ReadWriteWeb article  Why Starting a Non-Profit to Create Social Change is a Bad Idea  covers the various for-profit organizational options available to social entrepreneurs.

2012 166
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Practically Perfect PA Giveaway: Airport meet and greet service

Practically Perfect PA

Since 2001 DiamondAir International has been the world’s leading provider of the finest luxury airport services to over 500 destinations worldwide, including London Heathrow and London City Airport, rail stations, ports and other transport hubs. We have a fantastic competition for you this month! One very lucky assistant will win a free airport meet and greet service courtesy of DiamondAir International.

2014 222
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"We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or."

Denise Aday

War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times. ” - Howard Zinn, 2001. “ We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children. via mansplainedmarxist

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Startups Getting Smaller

Small Business Labs

employees in 2001 to 4.7 The Declining Average Size of Establishments: Evidence and Explanations is a wonky article from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) that shows the average size of small businesses has been shrinking for the last decade or so. The key data from the report is on the size of startups: The average size of establishment births (new startups, excluding seasonal businesses)in the 1990s was around 7.6 employees, whereas the average size of births fell from 6.8

2012 164
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A Collage of Success Tips

Office Dynamics

I feel today is an especially important Monday to share these inspirational insights with you as we honor the lives lost on September 11, 2001 and think of the people affected by Hurricane Harvey and Irma this past weekend. I just got back from a great 2 day event called Success Live. Maybe you saw my Facebook post … or not. This event was hosted by Success magazine.

2017 111
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29 Beautiful Stories That Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity

Success

In 2001 Mary Parry was homeless and living in a tent in Pennsylvania when she began befriending hikers along the roughly 2,190-mile Appalachian Trail.

2022 278
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Create Your Own Free Lunch and Learn Sessions

Ian's Messy Desk

The collection dates back to February 2001, and holds more than 500 video lectures. The post Create Your Own Free Lunch and Learn Sessions appeared first on Ian's Messy Desk. What do you do with your lunch hour, hang out with the gang in the lunch room, go for a walk, take a nap or continue to work? Most of these are not bad ideas ( though working through lunch can be counter-productive ). Here’s another idea. Why not use one lunch-break per week as a lunch-and-learn session?

2013 152
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How to Get Ahead at Work Without a College Degree

Eat Your Career

I’ll give you a quick example: I earned my Bachelor’s Degree in marketing in 2001. When I was growing up, there was never a question about whether or not I would go to college. The only question was, where ? I was very fortunate to come from a family with the financial means to make this my reality. However, not everyone has that same opportunity—and quite frankly, many don’t have the interest in college (or interest in taking on the debt required for it these days).

2019 182
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Top ten ways to stay healthy at your desk

Practically Perfect PA

She earned her doctorate in Clinical Psychology in 2001 with a focus on Healthy Behavior Adoption, Motivation and Adherence and she has an opportunity to apply that knowledge every day. MOVE: Active Sitting–sit on a Stability Ball instead of an office chair. You’ll move without even thinking about it and your muscles will stay more engaged.

2014 203
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A Business Shift Is Happening

Office Organization Success

Now that the excitement of this new technology has calmed down a little people are suffering from information overload, and I’m seeing a reversion back to the good old-fashioned values … back to how business was conducted when I first started in 2001. Having been in business for 12 years now, I’ve seen many changes happening in the online world … and most of those changes have been down to the technology that’s available.

2013 207
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Millions of tons of plastic are trashed every year. But what if we used it to pave our roads?

Ideas.Ted

India’s plastic road technology grew out of experimentation done in 2001 by R. This article first appeared in Yale Environment 360. . A road running through Accra, Ghana’s capital, looks like any other blacktop.

2021 143
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The Productivityist Podcast: Steve Dotto

Productivityist

Dotto Techrospective Dotto’s Data Cafe 10-1 (2001) | YouTube. On this episode of The Productivityist Podcast I welcome my good friend Steve Dotto to the show. Steve’s made a name for himself on two separate occasions – first as a nationally-recognized television personality in Canada and now as a globally-recognized Internet personality worldwide. Steve and I talk about his early years and how he got into what he is doing now.

2016 59
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Most US homes are energy vampires — here’s how we need to rethink housing from the ground up

Ideas.Ted

In their paper, Goldstein and his coauthors recommend that houses slim down by 10 percent nationwide, returning the median size to what it was in 2001. T he US has a housing problem. Not only are there too few homes, those that we have are gluttons, using almost twice as much energy per home as those in Europe. Only Canada’s homes — most of which endure long and biting winters — use more.

2021 96
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Day in the life: Catherine Thomas, EA, Public Health Wales

Practically Perfect PA

March 2001 saw me heading back to the UK as a single mum with 2 young children and so started my career part 2. What does your career path look like? I left school without a clue as to what I wanted to do when I grew up. Lady Diana had just accepted a proposal from Prince Charles – Lady Diane was a nursery nurse, so I thought that was an excellent career path.

2015 206
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Retirement 3.0 Includes Working, But With Lots of Flexibility

Small Business Labs

  This is up 5 years from a similar study done by Age Wave in 2001.  The Retirement Reset Study  is a joint effort by the Sun Financial Group and Age Wave.    Their key study finding is we are entering a new phase of retirement they call Retirement 3.0, which they define as: "A productive, purposeful and challenging new chapter in life - blending work and leisure - with opportunities for personal reinvention and continued social engagement."

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PPI Facts That You Should Know About

Small Business CEO

Experts have estimated that the total value of these mis-sold PPI policies comes to nearly £50 billion pounds, with most of these mis-sold ppi policies being sold to consumers over the previous ten to fifteen years (2001 to 2016.). Payment Protection Insurance policies were sold to millions of people in the UK. Most of these PPI policies were mis-sold.

2001 40
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6 Strategies to Implement a Summer Schedule

Office Organization Success

And so, after reading an article in Office Secretary Magazine, I became a Virtual Assistant in November 2001. As I shared in a recent training call, the number one reason why I started my business over 11 years ago was because I wanted flexibility in my schedule. You see, at that time I had two young boys (I’m now Mom to three boys aged 17, 14, and 8) and it was important that I had a flexible schedule while still being able to earn an income.

2013 207
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The Assist Conference: So much to do so little time!

Practically Perfect PA

In September 2001 she set up a charity “Lessons With Love” to support the youngsters in Beit Jibrin Camp. I have the Assist Conference up and running and I can not begin to tell you the amount of lists I have produced to help me keep on top of all of the details. It is great to be back organising events again and I must say it is even more special that it is my first Practically Perfect PA event! Over the last few weeks we have added some more amazing speakers.

2014 185