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Achieving rapid growth through word of mouth with Immad Akhund

Zendesk

Encourage your investors to talk about you on social media Mercury was founded to provide banking for startups. To attract startup founders, Akhund took an organic approach to marketing. Mercury had 60 angel investors at the seed round, and Akhund asked all of them to tweet about the company. Here are his tips.

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The History and Downfall of a German Wholesale Company “Wollschläger” – Part 1

QYMATIX

In 2006 Wollschläger acquired the Cologne-based Hommel Group , previously part of the industrial organization ThyssenKrupp AG. Haberstock accepted the management of the Hamburg office in 2007. Andrea Schröder: Wollschläger: Investor zieht Kaufangebot zurück – 420 Mitarbeitern wird gekündigt. What do you think?

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MiFID II: What It Means For Your Business And How To Be Compliant

Tenfold

It has been under development for nine years, being formally approved in 2014, and replaces the original MiFID enacted in 2007. Regulators are using MiFID II to migrate the last remaining unregulated over-the-counter trading onto a shared, uniformly regulated venue known as Organized Trading Facilities (OTFs).

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Scaling Lead Gen: Growing NetSuite’s BDR Team to 170 People in 3.5 Years

Openview

I just returned from Dublin where I spoke at SaaStock 2017 (what an amazing group of founders and investors!) Founded in 1998, they IPO’d in 2007 and were ultimately acquired by Oracle for $9.3B Ultimately, NetSuite built an impressive company with over 40,000 organizations using the product. It makes for a pretty good story.