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ProductionHUB Helps You Search For Media Production Professionals

YoungUpstarts

Florida-based ProductionHUB is a search engine for media and entertainment serving film, television, video, live event and digital media production. Searching through pages of crew and production services on another site used to be incredibly time consuming. Just this past week, we used ProductionHUB to find gear and crew in Athens, Greece!”.

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

VC’s engineered financial transactions, working with entrepreneurs to brand, hype and take public un profitable companies with grand promises of the future. Customer Development , Agile Engineering and the Lean methodology enforced a process of incremental and iterative development. Thus began the 5-year dot-com bubble. The New Exits.

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Marketing 101: Branding your offering in a competitive environment

crowdSPRING Blog

In 1998, Google was the new kid in an established (if not quite mature) market for Internet search, and by 2004, it was by far the leading Internet search engine, handling almost 85% of the search requests on the web. Related posts: 5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!).

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Netflix vs. Blockbuster and bad profits (reflections from my Bazaarvoice days)

Austin Startup

Then in 1998 along came a tiny company in Los Gatos, California named Netflix. Apple has been a huge catalyst for digital music downloads due to the viral success of the iPod. a recommendation engine). And the Blockbuster name became synonymous with late fees. The power of word of mouth cemented their reputation.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. In 1998 the Department of Justice launched an anti-trust case against Microsoft. But it makes me laugh to now see so many brands advertising their “fan pages&# as they did their AOL Keywords back in the day.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I managed to visit Seattle as part of the Australian national Magic The Gathering team in 1998, so that was the highlight of my career as a professional Magic player. It made this site very sticky and it grew organically through viral word-of-mouth as a result of doing that. Attract more sponsors. Facebook, same deal.