The Startup Story You Didn’t Hear About Billion Dollar Company Eloqua: It Was Four Days From Going Bankrupt

Hear stories from the gritty frontline of entrepreneurship with Eloqua Co-founder and the CEO of InfluitiveMark Organ.

A self-described serial entrepreneur, Influitive is Mark’s 7th business. Mark dove into entrepreneurship head first after realizing he couldn’t hold down a regular job. His first ventures gave him exposure to everything from bootstrapping a business to generating leads and managing a board of directors. Mark survived the struggles of getting Eloqua off the ground, later seeing it sell for nearly a billion dollars.

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Trends coming in 2014.

This is the third year in a row that I’ve asked friends and colleagues of mine to make predictions for the coming year.In the past, when I’ve done these predictions, I’ve turned to mostly traders who follow public stocks.  The predictions have been about the best long ideas, the best short ideas, and the estimated return of the S&P 500 in the coming year.

Rather than continue with that format, I decided to change it this year.

Instead of market predictions, I asked people for their best “sleeper ideas” for 2014.  A sleeper idea is something that few people see coming.  It’s a little followed idea that suddenly goes mainstream.

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Five bond market risks to worry about: Pimco

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“The lower reaches of the credit market have become particularly stretched,” Christian Stracke, global head of Pimco‘s credit research group, said in a note last week. “High yield has become not-so-high yield, with credit spreads almost back to 2007 levels in many cases.”

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