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True Story: How Bplans.com Started in 1995

Up and Running

January of 1995. I hope you’ve noticed big changes at bplans.com lately: more information, more tutorials, and better organized, making what you’re looking for easier to find. From the beginning, bplans.com was always intended to be a resource site, offering free information. And I started bplans.com.

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6 Stories of Successful New Entrepreneurs to Inspire Your Business

Up and Running

Thanks to that decision, the company was able to see quick growth, leading it to take out a second SBA-backed loan, this time for $807,000, in 1995. Two years after engineering firm UEC Electronics launched in 1995, its owner realized she and her staff of 10 needed marketing assistance to grow the business.

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Why Businesses Must Grasp Millennial Thinking Or Face Economic Calamity

YoungUpstarts

Millennials are the generation born roughly from 1981 to 1995, meaning that the older millennials aren’t that far from 40. Information is essential. Millennials are changing how we buy, how we sell, how we vacation, how we invest, and just about everything else. and that’s a lot of buying power. Instant gratification is paramount.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. As a reminder, the Dot Com bubble was a five-year period from August 1995 (the Netscape IPO ) when there was a massive wave of experiments on the then-new internet, in commerce, entertainment, nascent social media, and search.

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What Buying Habits Tell Marketers About Each Generation

YoungUpstarts

Now comprising the highest percentage of the workforce, this generation (born roughly from 1981 to 1995) receives considerable marketing attention. As a group, they aren’t particularly interested in the information age; however, the younger members of this generation are one of the fastest-growing groups of internet users.

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How The New General Data Protection Regulation Will Affect Online Businesses

YoungUpstarts

Essentially, the GDPR create a universal standard for online privacy, data and information gathering across all European Union countries – similar to federal regulations that standardize laws across all 50 states in America. The new regulations replace the 1995 EU Data Protection Directive and the 1998 UK Data Protection Act.

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8 Ways The Stakes Are Higher On Customer Expectations

Startup Professionals Musings

When you call customer service and it seems to take forever for the agent to help you, it’s likely that she is switching to different applications to get to the right information, or waiting for slow responses. Customers won’t tolerate being asked repeatedly for information you should know. Optimize experiences for the new generations.

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