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

YoungUpstarts

Though paper flyers are an option for today’s marketer, technology has also made it possible for you to avail yourself of digital distribution options and opened the door for platforms like evite , where anyone with a computer can quickly draw up an event or occasion announcement and distribute it to thousands of email and social media contacts.

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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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Response to the Journal

OnlyOnce

It is now widely understood that the Internet runs on data. Whether it’s a shopping app or a social media platform like Instagram, these free experiences provide a valuable service. Consumers are coming to understand and appreciate that the real cost of a “free” internet lies in advertising and data collection.

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Response to the Journal

OnlyOnce

It is now widely understood that the Internet runs on data. Whether it’s a shopping app or a social media platform like Instagram, these free experiences provide a valuable service. Consumers are coming to understand and appreciate that the real cost of a “free” internet lies in advertising and data collection.

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

By day he works on web and social media for HP. We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet. I looked at the future predictions for “modem speed” (as I called it back then, today we’d called it internet connection speed or bandwidth).

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Transforming Film To Digital – A Big Business Opportunity

YoungUpstarts

In 1999, a company known as Texas Instruments produced a DLP Cinema projector. A huge number of films which were made before 1999 were analog in nature. After that, the digital film can be preserved in modern storage media for later viewing. Furthermore, it can also be beamed to cinemas and TV screens right through the Internet.