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How 99Designs.com came to be

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

During lunch at school, he would have sales calls with customers and say that he had a hard stop at 1pm. Another website, Flippa, is a website auction site which started in the forums on SP too. To this day they have auctioned off $55m worth of websites with 55% of website sales ending above it’s initial sales price.

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

thebarefootvc

People also shared labor and skills in greater numbers: sites such as TaskRabbit , Solvate and Zaarly offer marketplaces for errands and tasks ranging from standing in line for the next iPhone, to grocery shopping, to website development. What’s Next in 2012….

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

Market Type affects your spending and sales ramp after you reach product/market fit. Your best bet is probably taking an existing market and serving a portion of it better than the competition, through lower cost or a different set of features. Back in 1999, it all ended very bad. End of theory.&# See if you can get to scale.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

I also wanted to future proof my business – to position it for growth, and ultimately sale, so giving it my name was out of the question. The original company name was Scene on TV (going back to 1999), and I expanded into movies, and the name was also confusing to people (Scene instead of Seen). So why Market Expertise?

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities.

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Episode 106: Implementing Profit First With Frank DeBenedetto and Ralph M. Rivera

Mike Michalowicz

And audIT Sales Presentation System, a SaaS sales presentation system for the IT and MSP industry designed to help communicate technical concepts in simple ways using color and infographics. In 1999 my wife Carol Lynn and I founded Rahvalor Interactive, a creative marketing services company. I also love playing the guitar.