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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Disruptors

Hearpreneur

It is truly a wonder when you start thinking about the massive scale that Amazon works at and how far the company has come along since 1994. It's difficult not to include Steve Jobs at the top of that list; he established a brand in Apple that altered global habits and elevated the importance of design in our daily lives. 7- Netflix.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. As of year-end, Foursquare had over 15 million users, with an exponential growth rate globally.

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Addressing Common Enterprise Application Pain Points

YoungUpstarts

One of the first issues organizations run into with their applications — specifically those hosted and supported from the company’s premises — is their employees’ requirement of access to these programs from offsite. This allows for anytime, anywhere access to these important programs. Solution: Managed application hosting.

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Debating the Tech Bubble with Steve Blank: Part I

Ben's Blog

If we are in a bubble, that is a bit of an odd commentary for a company that grew revenues 83% year-over-year and grew earnings 93% year-over-year. Because Stewart’s programmers are ten times more productive than they were in 2001 due to massive advances in programming language technology. Horace Dediu, Asymco.

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

Austin Startup

The African-American community with a global movement known as the Afro-Tech quietly mastered blockchain/distributed ledger technology several years ago to benefit urban communities.

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26 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

We knew that we wanted our new consulting firm to focused on improving customers top line revenue growth. At the time of its incorporation (2001), I had seen an article published by the University of Chicago showing that 82 % of CEOs had revenue growth as their #1 objective. That’s it, let’s call our company Revenue Storm!

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