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There’s Something Abuzz With GoodBuzz

YoungUpstarts

He would trade in 1994, for example, his basic food allowance to pay for his first computer class while studying art and philosophy in Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille (Lille I). GoodBuzz allows organizers to leverage on various channels – email, social networks, banners, word-of-mouth, etc.

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Build it and they won’t come: How and why growth hacking came to be

The Next Web

Growth hacking has resonated in the startup community due to today’s growth challenges: new channel creation, channel saturation, the “best product” fallacy and “product-growth” fit. Channel instability. The creation and destruction of channels is a common occurrence today. Channel saturation.

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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. Online calculators provide instant loan estimates, loan applications can be completed and submitted in a matter of minutes, and sophisticated web-based technology helps accelerate the credit decision process.

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

Austin Startup

So as Techcrunch was creating that crazy silly blockchain web video with Guy Kawasaki (lol!) The blockchain is service-orientated architecture like XML web services where XML is not “standardized” and neither is the delivery. Before there was Facebook, there was BlackPlanet, and before there was Gawker, there was Urban Expose.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 21, Part 1: Kathy Ku and Orin Herskowitz

Steve Blank

How this research is transferred outside the university, and why this “tech transfer” process is important was the focus of an interview with two of the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern). Want to be a guest on the show?

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

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Interesting perspective from Steve Jobs about his legacy (from 1994) – [link]. Creativity still rules, even in old channels like direct mail. Great example – [link].

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12 Questions: Meet Angus Griffin (England)

crowdSPRING Blog

We also arrived at a rather pivotal and pertinent time in South African history, just after President Nelson Mandela was brought into power in 1994. Another one, one that actually never got used, but I still liked was EngineFarm … They are a web platform enabling users to find and create their own personalized google search engine.