YoungUpstarts

MARCH 6, 2015

In 1999, eCommerce company, Half.com , turned a $100,000 investment into a $300,000,000 sale. The media fallout was huge and eBay bought the company five months later for more than $300,000,000. The press, bloggers and social media went crazy for the stunt which combined just enough silliness with a serious message.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

million … yes that was seed in 1999!) Around this time B2C eCommerce had been dominating the media but the wheels were starting to come off. We instructed customers about how eCommerce was going to change their future. It kind of reminds me a bit of how “social media experts&# are talking to customers today).

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

I’d start by trying to follow them on social media to get to know them a bit, and then reach out with a relevant intro request through LinkedIn. He is an ecommerce innovator with first Coremetrics and then Bazaarvoice, a very active angel investor, and currently Founder and CEO of data.world. How do you meet them?

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Did you always plan to do ecommerce as well? That was in 1999 – we were in fact one of the first food companies to offer e-commerce to consumers. How have you used social media to unite, inspire and converse with your fans? One which still goes best with a glass of milk. Here’s a short interview I did with Lee. .

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 1, 2016

We built some early ecommerce sites around 1999 and back office order processing systems using visual basic for applications (VBA). In the last couple of years as digital marketing has got more complex with social media and content playing an ever larger role I needed a team to help me cover all the bases.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Christopher Fralic is a Managing Partner at First Round Capital’s New York office, and has focused on a number of the firm’s investments in Advertising Technology, Social Media, Ecommerce, Gaming, Mobile and more. Prior to joining First Round in early 2006, Mr. acquisition. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 15, 2010

Founded in Austin in 1999, Coremetrics is known as one of the high-end providers of web analytics, competing with Omniture and Webtrends. These channels span traditional outlets such as storefronts and catalogs and newer outlets including all forms of eCommerce and social media.

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Up and Running

JUNE 18, 2014

Founded in 1999 in Montreal, Canada, ice.com was recently acquired by Round 2 Inc., an ecommerce company headed by CEO Brandon Proctor. Social media platforms – there’s nothing wrong with turning to social media to find people you learn from and who you connect with.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

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. For creatives, it is a global stage for creativity where title and experience don’t matter.

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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. Try going for a week without using a computer, smartphone, search engine, ecommerce, social media account, SMS, private message or email, to name a few services. But when the web 2.0 It’s nigh on impossible. Regulation.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2016

For example, take a look at Buffer’s 5 Unique Ways to Measure and Evaluate a Social Media Campaign. If your website looks like it was designed in 1999, consider a redesign. Here’s a good read from Moz on Pruning Your eCommerce Site: How & Why. You can read more in Can Social Media Help My Company?

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

. - Union Square Ventures , June 10, 2010 No Plan Survives First Contact With Customers – Business Plans versus Business Models - Steve Blank , April 8, 2010 Pricing models, the freemium myth and why you may not be charging enough for your product - Seth Levine's VC Adventure , August 12, 2010 Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events (..)

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