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There’s Something Abuzz With GoodBuzz

YoungUpstarts

His first foray into technology was in 1995, when Koutonin, along with a few friends, created one of Togo’s first news website. Peer-To-Peer Referral Network. GoodBuzz allows organizers to leverage on various channels – email, social networks, banners, word-of-mouth, etc. The African Boy Who Could.

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My 2020 Vision for Graduates: How to be Optimistic in Terrible Times

Reid Hoffman

In a quote that’s often attributed to Charles Darwin – but was in fact a Louisiana State University management professor paraphrasing Darwin in 1963 , “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. The biggest happened much earlier in my career, in 1995.”. Who flourishes? What a mistake!

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information. With a unique vision for starting and successfully managing innovative companies, he is the Managing Partner of Social Leverage, a holding company that invests in early stage web businesses.

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Six Nudges: Creating A Sense Of Urgency For Higher Conversion Rates!

Occam's Razor

These two recommendations will help you compute the opportunity size for your management team. Aim for quintupling revenue, obviously, but calculating just 25% improvement will give you all the budget you need from your management to insert urgency into the shopping process. Social cues to the rescue. Yes, from 1995!

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Revolution at the Edge

Ben's Blog

In the late year of 1995, IBM acquired Lotus Development, makers of the Lotus 123 spreadsheet and a proprietary Internet predecessor, Lotus Notes, for $3.5B—more The people of IT—CIOs, network engineers, system administrators, IT developers and their brethren—get captured and held hostage by the technological dictators. Final thought.

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Want Your Startup to Succeed? Stay Home

ReadWriteStart

The study, by Professor Olav Sorenson of the Yale School of Management and Michael Dahl of Aalborg University in Copenhagen, Denmark, is titled “ Home Sweet Home: Entrepreneurs’ Location Choices and the Performance of Their Ventures.” You need investors and early employees to trust you and those are people you already know,” he says.

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12 Questions: Meet Roman Faiman – Northridge, CA (USA)

crowdSPRING Blog

I have a full time job, an Art Department Manager for a printing company, I handle all of the work that comes in and I prep it for printing, which is at times an arduous task since many so called graphic design gurus don’t really know how to set up their files for proper printing. How did you become interested in design?