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Why The Future Of US High-Tech Is Bright

YoungUpstarts

Other social networking, online marketing, clean-tech and bio-tech companies have fallen out of favor with some investors, fueling speculation regarding the future of the US technology sector. A growing number of skeptics are openly talking of a ‘high tech bubble’. They are not alone. Global Demand.

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7 Approaches To Help You Generate More Referrals

Duct Tape Marketing

Key Takeaway: In a recent Texas Tech Survey, out of 2000 consumers, 89% of them claimed they had a business that they loved enough that they would gladly recommend — only 29% of them actually did it. Resources I mention: The Ultimate Marketing Engine: Five Steps to Ridiculously Consistent Growth. Why is there such a gap?

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Are India’s IT managers holding back the country’s startup growth?

The Next Web

Narayana Murthy pulled a Michael Dell when he called time on his two-year-long retired life and retook charge at Infosys, the Indian information technology (IT) giant he had founded three decades ago in a small apartment with six others. The forecast also predicted that its 2014 sales were going to be equally uncompetitive.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

“TripAdvisor is to travel reviews what Kleenex is to tissues.”. . 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.

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

9:33) Scaling Up Excellence , process debt, technical debt, and human capital debt, plus rapid prototyping during the pandemic. (13:58) 28:12) The pandemic as a moment to invest in people and technology, have a plan and execute. Highlights from the show: Carl details his background and experience. (4:22) Yes, we’d like that.

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21 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Despite practicing law and building tech startups, there was a big part of me that was unsatisfied in each of those roles. At that time, in the year 2000 there were no spam filters so it was pretty easy to contact other translation companies to setup cooperation. Thanks to Alison Bernstein, The Suburban Jungle ! #9- 9- I HAD to.

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Out of the Crisis #7, Brian Chesky Part 1: running Airbnb in crisis mode, being multi-stakeholder, and re-founding the company

Startup Lessons Learned

Eric Ries : You're not like a lot of other tech folks. Brian Chesky : And also humans are not good at forecasting or creating a mental model around something that's never happened before. I'm perhaps an oddity of Silicon Valley because I'm not an engineer by training. And of course, this is 2000. Brian Chesky : Yeah.