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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

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The HBR study contrasts Office Depot and Staples during the 2000 recession: Office Depot cut 6% of its workforce, but it couldn’t reduce operating costs significantly. By 2011, we had 50 customers; today we have over 2,000. Image source ). But there were others, too: In 2010, Okta had only ten customers on board.

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How Helping Newbies Led To Big Profits And A Closing Down Sale (Discount Price Ends Friday)

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Obviously I was pretty stoked at how successful the course was, and it went on from there to grow to over 2000 members and become the most successful program I’ve ever created based on total number of users. You score the following SEVEN extra bonuses if you join Become A Blogger Premium during this closing down promo: 1.

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Transcript of Developing Important Entrepreneurial and Leadership Qualities

Duct Tape Marketing

We started off with Gangbusters in 2000. ” Jack McGuinness: And so, I think I read your book, Duct Tape Marketing probably in 2011 or ’12 because I was just really doing some soul-searching about how we were going to make this thing work. And using SEO and using just simple things like having better titles.

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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Though after the dotcom collapse of 2000-2001, there are many more than there were! Why are consulting CTOs so scarce? Obviously, there are not many technologists who have had the experience of launching multiple web startups. And why would you hire a technology guy who launched a failed startup? Perhaps the more failures, the better?

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Min.us Wins Babson Student Business Of The Year Award

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has received the Babson College 2011 Student Business of the Year Award. He has years of experience in SEO, online marketing, operations and management. His work was crucial in building Microsoft SQL Server 2000. Receives Babson College 2011 Student Business Of The Year Award. From Babson College : Min.us Visit [link].

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The Last Lean Startup Bundle: 48 hours to claim $3,000,000 in prizes

Startup Lessons Learned

You’ll the complete video recording of the amazing Lean Startup track at SXSW 2011 , every single presentation. You’ll get awesome video content, including the video Lean Startup course I created exclusively for Udemy. And many of you will get seven awesome action videos courtesy of Appsumo.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

Founded in 2000 by Stephen Kaufer and Langley Steinert, Boston-based TripAdvisor is a travel website that provides reviews and other information for consumers about travel destinations around the world. Big Data meets travel…in 2000. Magical, really. TripAdvisor’s History: Two Big Pivots.