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Solving for Banner Blindness. Solve Media.

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Solve Media is that. In the early days of the Internet as an advertising medium the industry organized to create “standard ad units&# for which most media companies would sell their inventory. The standards were set by the IAB ( Interactive Advertising Bureau ), which was founded in 1996. More on that another day.

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26 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

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When you work with Twelve31 Media, you get a fresh start. Geiger, Twelve31 Media, LLC ! #3- So, I kept it simple: my name and the work we do: Brill Media. I knew I needed a name that was easy to remember, simple to spell, something unique but also a name that was available on social media. Thanks to Margaret H.

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How to Hack Growth When Growth Stalls

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Reporting in the Harvard Business Review on a major study of growth stalls they conducted, Olson and his colleagues cite the case of the iconic brand Levi Strauss, which hit a historic high mark of sales in 1995, reaching revenue of $7 billion, but then, starting in 1996, saw a decline in sales so precipitous that by 2000, revenue was down to $4.6

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: Akamai

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Incorporated in 1998 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company’s network of over 100,000 globally distributed servers provides an infrastructure layer that accelerates the distribution and delivery of content, media and applications. The chart below shows the company’s strong financial performance from 2009 to the present.

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Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You

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Readily Pronounceable – A name’s proper accent should be obvious, as made painfully clear in the 1996 Tom Hank’s Movie, “That Thing You Do!” Computer Motion was named after a clever software algorithm that allowed primitive (circa 1990) computer processors to render graphics in 3-D. 4 Comments. No Comments. Popular Posts.

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