Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

market indices (Dow, S and P, NASDAQ) are trading lower today than they were in September 1999. Certainly not the financial media, which has figured out that it is just a lot more fun to focus on the daily ups and downs of the market and personalities, than the more stuffy and far more ratings-unfriendly focus on return metrics.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Recommendation engines are, at their core, information filtering tools that utilize algorithms and data to recommend the most relevant items to a particular user in a given context. For clarity, by logic, I mean the set of predefined rules and algorithms based on which recommendations are provided (i.e. Personalized Recommendations.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

After the Dot Com crash of 1999, most yet-to-be-disrupted big firms got back to business. It became a global news story – yet still nothing has changed. Today with algorithms we have a secret black box. It was difficult to conceive how important the internet would be to our lives back in the mid 1990s. But when the web 2.0

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

I believe that every human with time to spare, and a connection to the web, should be on social media. Do the big gigantic numbers imply that your business should use these social media channels? Even the people who powered your investment in Social Media, the Gurus, have, reluctantly, accepted this reality. Success Metrics.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

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 first year of revenue (1999) was $4 million – a remarkable achievement. Founding Akamai.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

For creatives, it is a global stage for creativity where title and experience don’t matter. In January of 1999, I co-founded a marketing agency with a former boss. Thanks to Kent Lewis, Anvil Media. #4 Before they were born, I was working as a salesperson for a big media company, making a lot of money.

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