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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Netflix was founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph to combat late fees for video rentals. Eventually, Reddit became wildly popular and was bought by Condé Nast, the owner of 20 other brands and media like Vanity Fair, Vogue, and The New Yorker. WhatsApp became one of the most popular apps for social media by 2014.

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7 Keys To Being An Exceptional Business Leader Today

Startup Professionals Musings

Today, with the Internet and social media, if you aren’t visible in a positive way to everyone, including customers, your leadership efforts will be lost. You need to be visible in marketing efforts, viral videos, and interactions with key customer segments. Online it may be time to take a formal position via blogs and interviews.

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Why Gen Z Should Be Your Small Business’s Next Big Focus

The Startup Magazine

Now, a lot of businesses only see Gen Z as teenagers, but this generation started in 1997, so essentially, the older ones are in their late 20s, slowly creeping to their 30s. Other businesses are doing this (mainly with social media and content marketing), so your business absolutely needs to do the same. Is there a certain age range?

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

In 1997, the year the Kauffman Report begins its analysis; there were 70 million users online globally. There is no sector of the economy that isn’t being transformed by the online community that is now voraciously consuming media, applications, communications and buying global products. There are 20x more consumers online.

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What Is It That You’re ALWAYS Selling?

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

It’s this article by Tom Peters I read way back in 1997 that shifted a paradigm in my business thinking, and got me working on a strategy to brand myself. That’s how marketing on social media works. So, you think it’s egoistic to consider an individual a ‘brand’? Here’s an eye-opener for you.

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Customers Love Free Stuff … But That’s Not Your Problem

abovethecrowd.com

Warren Buffet, 1997. Paypal famously offered customers $5 to invite a friend, who would then also get $5 as part of a highly successful viral marketing campaign (they actually started at $20, and then reduced it to $10 and then ended at $5). Marketing 101: Customers love free stuff. You guessed it — straight up free money.

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Design for Startups: The Aesthetics of Web Apps in 6 Questions

www.readwriteweb.com

The landing page for Bonds viral, social game, Spymaster. Do certain design elements signal to users - and investors and media - the scope, uses, and meaning of an application? "I first exploded, that was definitely the case for the media," said Benedetto. "Oh, Aesthetics play a major part in that decision." I think when Web 2.0

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