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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

It can also keep your employees employed or help you retain your job—a modicum of security in uncertain times. In 2002, McKinsey published a study of 1,000 U.S. These companies tend to over rely on reducing the number of employees. But nothing gets better if we stand still. Work can be a welcome intellectual distraction.

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From email scams to e-commerce wins: How online shopping is helping Nigeria fix its Internet reputation

The Next Web

Its chaos and insanity melds into a working city that was predicted by the architect Rem Koolhaas (with the Harvard Project on the City) in the 2001 book Mutations when he said that Lagos was a city of the future and one that Western cities would eventually base themselves on. But somehow Lagos works. Slowly overcoming its reputation.

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Capital Market Climate Change

Ben's Blog

Perhaps you are caught in the “Series A crunch” or perhaps you are a consumer company and expected that you would be valued on users rather than revenue like the last time. 3/30/2001: 26.3. 3/29/2002: 82.5. But they most certainly are not. Or maybe you are a lucky enterprise company and are pleasantly surprised—this time.

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Groupon Co-Founders to Teach at U of Chicago’s Booth School

Campus Entrepreneurship

When I attended between 1998-2001, there were a few course on entrepreneurship (entrepreneurial finance, entrepreneurial strategy, etc.), Groupon had 124 employees on January 1, and it will end the year with more than 3,200 employees worldwide in 34 countries,” Keywell said. but I don’t recall courses on internet strategy.

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Capital Market Climate Change

Ben's Blog

Perhaps you are caught in the “Series A crunch” or perhaps you are a consumer company and expected that you would be valued on users rather than revenue like the last time. 3/30/2001: 26.3 3/29/2002: 82.5 But they most certainly are not. Or maybe you are a lucky enterprise company and are pleasantly surprised—this time.

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Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned

om.co

I had been writing GigaOM (the blog) since December 2001, but in 2003, I started working on a piece for Business 2.0 In the early days, my belief was that blogs (or as I called them micro-pubs back in 2002) would grow really fast and it would allow me to aggregate large subsets of audiences around specific niches. STARTING IT UP.

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35 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

When we started our company in 2002 we decided that Sonjara would make a great name for our company or product; meaningful and unusual, as well as easy to pronounce and spell. We wanted to find a name that had meaning and that would keep every employee focused on what we are all about. Thanks to Siobhan Green, Sonjara, Inc !

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