ConversionXL
JANUARY 11, 2013
In 2004, CVS was challenged for offering of an in-store sweepstakes — a “Trip of a Lifetime” sweepstakes with the grand prize trip to Oahu, Hawaii — in which the purchasers using a store loyalty card were automatically entered into the sweepstakes, while non-purchasers were required to go on line to enter.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 31, 2010
Mine started this way … I started my first company in the “go-go years&# of the Internet: 1999. We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. I canceled my first ever extended family trip to Hawaii less than a week before going.
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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
JUNE 19, 2010
In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering. Yaro: Yeah, as you saw on the slides I went to Fiji, Hawaii, America, Canada, Europe, down to Dubai, Singapore, and back home over eight months.
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 30, 2010
While not 1999 all over again but I am observing first-hand the signs of funding frenzy. trillion out of our homes and spent 2/3rds of it on flat screen TVs, trips to Hawaii, time shares, Apple products and everything else we couldn’t afford. VCs get paid to “put money to work.&#. I know not everybody agrees. We took $2.3
Scalable Startup
MAY 16, 2015
A brief entry further down the page from the open source, pseudonymous online journal Zero Hedge (tagline: “On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero”) points out that of the tech companies that went public in often wildly lucrative IPOs in 2013, 73 percent have never turned a profit, compared to 27 percent in 1999.
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