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Ecommerce: How to Survive its Troughs

ReadWriteStart

This new shift impacted as much as a 4% improvement in total sales of brands that had made the shift. Brands started working towards creating their online portals to push for sales online while continuing their brick and mortar operations. You can easily integrate this portal with different social media channels.

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3 Ways Technology Is Changing Small Business Lending

YoungUpstarts

In 1994 Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said, “retail banks are dinosaurs, they can be bypassed,” in a Newsweek interview. With this loan option, which is also called a business cash advance, a lump sum of money is given in exchange for a specific percentage of your business’ future sales. Merchant Cash Advance.

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RIP Len Fassler

Feld Thoughts

It took a while for me and my partner Dave Jilk to decide to do it, but we closed the sale in November 1993. When I started making angel investments in 1994, Len invested alongside me in many companies, including NetGenesis, Harmonix, and Oblong. If you’ve ever worked with me in any deal capacity, I’m channeling Len.

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Yesware – Integrating Email and CRM

Feld Thoughts

I continue to be obsessed about email – it’s by far the most significant comm channel I use. And – it’s accelerating, not decelerating, especially as it proliferates across devices as well as other comm channels. Raj and I have done a bunch of companies together since we met in 1994.

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How Black People Leveraged Tech Bigotry to Boss the Blockchain Below the Radar

Austin Startup

The Afro-Tech operates on a basis of permissionless innovation — we do not need pre-approval to be black and innovative in tech and as for me, I been doing advanced and epic Internet tech stuff since 1994 so I’m not exactly someone that is easily impressed by an “ex-Google engineer” like the rest of yall, just saying.

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Silicon Beach emerges as a tech hotbed

www.usatoday.com

Were helping the second-largest city in the United States become a veritable tech center," Google says on its website, in trying to attract employees for sales and engineering positions. tech industry since 1994, when he started as an engineer at video game company Activision. TV channel blackouts becoming more common.

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Twitter Link Roundup #185 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

An Initial Sales Rep Comp Plan to Lower Your Stress Level, Increase Cash, and Make Everyone Money – [link]. An Initial Sales Rep Comp Plan to Lower Your Stress Level, Increase Cash, and Make Everyone Money – [link]. Interesting perspective from Steve Jobs about his legacy (from 1994) – [link].