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Spotlight on the expert: Michelle Tackabery

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Q: You’re very much from North Carolina. I was born in New York City; we moved to North Carolina when I was 12, so I spent my high school and college years here. You could always find a job, but a lot of those jobs were contracting jobs so I moved around a lot. I finished a contract during my first year.

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10 Tough Lessons We Learned Building a Prenicorn Outside of Silicon Valley from Pendo.io (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Pendo, my company is headquartered Raleigh, North Carolina. My goal today is to share a few lessons that we’ve learned and how we’ve gotten to this point headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina. We didn’t say we want to be the biggest company in North Carolina. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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For instance, in 1985, the average starting salary for a geography major at the University of North Carolina was well over $100,000. But here's the thing -- Michael Jordan, a geography major at UNC, left the university in 1984 to sign a $1 million per year contract with the Chicago Bulls.

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Well, like Curry, Bazemore is from North Carolina, and the two are good friends. And when he found out that the end Curry’s contract with Nike was coming up, he advocated for Under Armour and helped set a meeting between the two. But what does Bazemore have to do with the story?

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PODCAST 138: From Marketer to CEO: The Power of Brand as a Growth Amplifier with Jake Sorofman

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Because what we found is that one of the low points of any customer experiences, the moment after the contract is signed, all the good will and momentum that you create in the sales cycle is lost. We also have people in maybe 10 states right now, including a contingent that we’ve been building here in North Carolina around my network.

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And that is how three years later I found myself with a Master of Arts in Religion (Biblical Studies) and working for an agency in the Triangle of North Carolina. One day it cropped up that we were getting our company website redesigned and there were a few companies vying for the contract. Dharmesh Shah. Co-founder, HubSpot.

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We have offices in Tokyo, Sydney, Melbourne, Toronto, Salt Lake City, and then our headquarters here at the beach in Wilmington, North Carolina, and we have over 900 employees. We have over 1100 customers across the globe. Matt Garratt: Super. And we would go in and we built an Ariba connector early.

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