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6 Mistakes Often Made By Entrepreneurs Due To Passion

Startup Professionals Musings

With the success of Facebook and Twitter, I still see new social media startups almost every day, with most destined to fail. Just because you would have loved to have your groceries picked out and delivered, doesn’t mean the mainstream customer was ready for Webvan in 1999. Relying on an old formula for success.

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6 Ways To Doom Your Startup Despite A Great Solution

Startup Professionals Musings

With the success of Facebook and Twitter, I still see new social media startups almost every day, with most destined to fail. Just because you would have loved to have your groceries picked out and delivered, doesn’t mean the mainstream customer was ready for Webvan in 1999. Relying on an old formula for success.

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6 Ways Startups Are Fooled By Prior Business Models

Startup Professionals Musings

With the success of Facebook and Twitter, I still see new social media startups almost every day, with most destined to fail. Just because you would have loved to have your groceries picked out and delivered, doesn’t mean the mainstream customer was ready for Webvan in 1999. Relying on an old formula for success.

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Don’t Let Your Business Be A Dead Startup Walking

Startup Professionals Musings

With the success of Facebook and Twitter, I still see new social media startups almost every day, with most destined to fail. Just because you would have loved to have your groceries picked out and delivered, doesn’t mean the mainstream customer was ready for Webvan in 1999. Relying on an old formula for success.

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28 Entrepreneurs Discuss Why they Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

Prior to crowdSPRING, I was producer and production manager in the film and television industry and Ross was an attorney in private practice specializing in intellectual property. In January of 1999, I co-founded a marketing agency with a former boss. Thanks to Kent Lewis, Anvil Media. #4 3 – I was Fired Twice.

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Fixing Tech – A Manifesto from a Raving Capitalist

Start Up Blog

Internet 1.0. It was difficult to conceive how important the internet would be to our lives back in the mid 1990s. After the Dot Com crash of 1999, most yet-to-be-disrupted big firms got back to business. How could anyone ever lie again if we could just check it out on the internet and find out the truth!