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Operating a business in the age of the ‘brand experience’

The Next Web

Julius Talvik is co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer of Unison , a brand innovation company in Washington, DC, that develops physical and digital products for companies around the world. In 1999 or so, a third player entered the scene when Google launched its minimalist Web experience.

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What is the biggest enemy of a startup?

K9 Ventures

In 1998–1999, when I was running my first company, one of my investors, the late Don Jones , came by to visit us at the office. I’ve written before about Revenue Development ). The architecture and technology will have to evolve over time. Don was totally a people person and just an all around great person to talk to.

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Former Head of Microsoft Israel Dreams of Billion Dollar Israeli Startups

VC Cafe

Moshe Lichtman, the man once in charge of all of Microsoft’s technology development in Israel, says that the time has come to build a billion dollar Israeli company. Moshe joined Microsoft in 1991 as a product manager after a career as a software developer. By Ben Bakhshi. In this post I break down an article by TheMarker.co.il

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Web service architecture that provides a content management platform for the Internet. I am very grateful to my friend Zoli Erdos for finding this retro posting for me at web.archive.org. Page 2: What’s unique about Koral. Folksonomy. Free product. Page 3: Competition.

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Waves of technology platforms

Startup Lessons Learned

I was building a new startup in 1999, and wanted to do it right. You dont need to invent a new architecture, and you dont need to even build your architecture up-front. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Were in a new wave of platform evolution. yeah, its awesome.

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Guide to Website Navigation Design Patterns

sixrevisions.com

Site navigation has a wide variety of common and familiar design patterns that can be used as a foundation for building effective information architecture for a website. But including a search option isn’t an excuse to ignore good information architecture. Used for multi-level information architecture. Paul Hempsall.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

The mobile phone has transformed billions of lives by providing previously unavailable connectivity, information and economic development (studies have linked a 10% increase in mobile penetration to a 1.2% Villagers in rural areas are now connected to health services via SMS updates and “dial a doctor” services.