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Don’t drink your own Kool-Aid (surviving TC50)

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Around this time B2C eCommerce had been dominating the media but the wheels were starting to come off. Jacques Chirac , the president of France was the keynote speaker. It kind of reminds me a bit of how “social media experts&# are talking to customers today). 2001-2004 were very humbling but we built a real company.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

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Stereotheque is a cloud-based platform to empower young professionals and organizations of all disciplines in the Media and Entertainment Industries, to become more competitive, generate growth, and drive more business opportunities. The year was 2001. This was 2001, when almost nobody was on the Web. Photo Credit: Tomás Uribe.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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Agence France-Presse/Getty Images. Netscape and Opsware, which he helped found, went public with single-class share structures in 1995 and 2001, respectively. But that is the least of the social media mis-manners modern party hosts and attendees are likely to encounter. Enlarge Image Close.