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Are India’s IT managers holding back the country’s startup growth?

The Next Web

Not a giant outsourcer playing the cost arbitrage game. All the way from 1993 to 2000. Infosys would now be a technology solutions provider. But, as it turned out, the pivot didn’t work. But this was a time-consuming job not meant for their internal IT departments. Enter outsourcing. Enter India.

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Customer Data Platforms: The Next Big Shift in SaaS Marketing Stacks?

ConversionXL

7 years later, in 1993, Tom Siebel thought that Oracle (the company where he was employed) could have sold the internal sales application as a standalone product. In early 2000, the diffusion of Personal Computers transformed the way users made decisions and the paradigm buyer/seller changed again. All manual operations.

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Why Pioneers Have Arrows In Their Backs

Steve Blank

In fact, a 1993 paper by Peter N. Over the next ten years, while Ford focused on cost reductions, General Motors built a diverse and differentiated product line. Soon every other VC was using the phrase to justify the reckless “get big fast” strategies of dot-com startups during the Internet Bubble. Fast Followers – a better idea.

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15 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

Another reason was because when I started my business it was 2000, and people used the phone more, I wanted something short and sweet I could say while answering the phone all day. This builds momentum and reduces the cost of the professional services. Because, or course, girls love to talk! Hence the name Three Girls Media, Inc.

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

In 1993, Word 6.0 Then there were challenges with fulfillment logistics, difficulty maintaining DVD quality, and trying to figure out how to do all this in a way that covered costs and generated some cash. The year was 2000, and the hardest part about the AdWords project was simply getting agreement that they could work on it.

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Boom and Bust and What Comes Next

Scalable Startup

By all accounts, the first one burst in 2000 when the NASDAQ crash brought the first dot-com era to a close. is mostly sanguine, claiming that the market’s standards for viability have increased since the 2000 bust and citing Twitter (revenue but no profit) as the model for the new public tech company.

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12 Questions: Meet Cibi Perez (USA)

crowdSPRING Blog

I graduated from high school in 1993 and enrolled into the Art Program at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Between 2000 and 2007, I did not do any graphic design work. My biggest compliment I can give them is that I avoid them at all costs whenever possible in contests. These guys are good…really good.