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Market Like Its 1999 In 2015 – 9 Marketing Strategies That Worked Back Then & Still Work Now

YoungUpstarts

While it is important to keep pace with technological and tactical advances, it’s also important to hang on to marketing tools that continue to prove their worth. When it came to ROI in 1999, the bigger, brighter, and more noticeable your yellow pages’ ad was, the better. Print catalogs worked in 1999, and they still work today.

Marketing 100
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Episode 106: Implementing Profit First With Frank DeBenedetto and Ralph M. Rivera

Mike Michalowicz

Too add, by implementing Profit First, within the first two weeks of starting the business, the company took their first distribution check! In 1999 my wife Carol Lynn and I founded Rahvalor Interactive, a creative marketing services company. Welcome to Episode 106 of the Profit First Podcast! Our Guests. Ralph Rivera.

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How Pertino is reinventing the future of business networking

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Veterans of the networking industry, Craig formerly served as the CEO of Packeteer, a high-flying networking appliance vendor that he took public in 1999 with Scott as his director of engineering. At Packeteer, they built a hardware-based appliance that was expensive and complex to manage.

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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. Figuring out who you’re going to sell your product to, and building the distribution for it also takes time. The architecture and technology will have to evolve over time.

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Transforming Film To Digital – A Big Business Opportunity

YoungUpstarts

In this activity, modern technologies are utilized to turn traditional, analog content into digital format. They were used to distribute and view movies in cinemas for the next 100 years until digital film technology came along. In 1999, a company known as Texas Instruments produced a DLP Cinema projector. Conclusion.

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Waves of technology platforms

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 Waves of technology platforms I still remember the first time I switched to LAMP. I was building a new startup in 1999, and wanted to do it right. That startup didnt turn out so well, but not for lack of technology. How to listen to customers, and not just the loud.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. So we have five themes – Digital Life and Distribution are the other two.”.