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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. GoodBuzz allows organizers to leverage on various channels – email, social networks, banners, word-of-mouth, etc. – to promote their campaigns. The African Boy Who Could.

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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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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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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 Communicate – The most important challenge in managing any large organization is communication. Marc released Mosaic in 1993. Final thought.

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E-tailers: Boost Your eCatalog With Pinterest

YoungUpstarts

If your company has been relying solely on Facebook and Twitter for social media marketing, it’s time to start using the power of Pinterest to extend the reach of your eCatalog. The main advantage Pinterest offers over other social networking sites is that it is all visual. Kfir Bar-Levav started out as a sales rep in 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 Communicate – The most important challenge in managing any large organization is communication. Marc released Mosaic in 1993. 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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