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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. As a reminder, the Dot Com bubble was a five-year period from August 1995 (the Netscape IPO ) when there was a massive wave of experiments on the then-new internet, in commerce, entertainment, nascent social media, and search.

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Twitter Link Roundup #162 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Thanks To Facebook, Strongest Year For IPOs Since 2000 With $21.5 SEO For Facebook Graph Search? Facebook Has Some Tips | Search Engine Land - [link].

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Mastering SEO in the Age of AI

Duct Tape Marketing

Mastering SEO in the Age of AI written by Tosin Jerugba read more at Duct Tape Marketing  The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Stephan Spencer, an acclaimed SEO expert and founder of net Concepts, an interactive agency specializing in search engine optimization.

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Millennials got Mail: 6 ways to successfully target the ‘always connected’ generation through email

The Next Web

Toss around the term “Millennial” in your favorite search engine and it brings up perceived characteristics attributed to the generation. age group varies according to source, but the generation is roughly composed of those born between 1981 and 2000, according to Pew Research. Lingenfelter said. “In

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – missing search, mobile and the cloud were directly where Microsoft users were heading. 16 years later it’s just another software company. Yet a very smart CEO missed all of these.

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – missing search, mobile and the cloud were directly where Microsoft users were heading. 16 years later it’s just another software company. Yet a very smart CEO missed all of these.

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From Loyalty Programs To Fan Clubs, A Paradigm Shift

YoungUpstarts

The fact that we can get stuck at this level of soul searching is something that is rarely seen in other industries. Social media is high on the radar for CRM and loyalty specialists. There is a strong sense that CRM and social media could go together very well. “If you want loyalty, get a dog.”