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20 years ago Raj and I started a little company together in our dorm room…

Jeff Hilimire

Fast-forward a few years later and I followed her to Charlotte, her attending Davidson College and me at UNC-Charlotte. In our final year of school we decided to start a website development company, which we named NBN Designs (Nothing But Net), for no other reason than UNC-Charlotte had a great basketball team at the time.

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I AM GOING TO CRUSH YOU

Jeff Hilimire

It was early 2001 and we were a five person web design company. We’d been “in business” since late 1998 but we were still kids, having started Spunlogic from our dorm room at UNC-Charlotte. By 2001, one of our major strategies was to work with other firms to help them produce websites.

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What’s The One Thing That Creates High User Engagement?

ConversionXL

The concept of scent really began in 2001 , when a Xerox Palo Alto Researcher, Dr. Ed Chi, reported that the way humans track information is not unlike the way that animals track food. The only noticeable event is in Charlotte, quite far away from me: So bad scent ruined this conversion. What Is “Scent” Anyway?