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5 Stages In Leading Paradigm Shift Levels Of Change

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, I still remember when Dean Kamen launched the Segway Human Transporter in 2002, predicting a transportation paradigm shift, and geared up to sell 10,000 per week for the next five years. Due to qualms of customers and governments, he sold less than 30,000 of the devices over the next five years.

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Business Lessons Often Ignored In The Heat Of Passion

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, the personal motorized scooter Segway was announced as disruptive technology way back in 2002, but is still not a successful business. If you don’t have all these interests and skills, even your most “disruptive” products will likely fail. If there is no competition, there is likely not a market.

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Does the Size of a VC Fund Matter?

Both Sides of the Table

If the VC your talking to raised its last fund in 2002 then they likely don’t have much fire power for new investments. If you imagine that they did most of their initial investments between 2002-2007 then it’s been 3 years of mostly doing follow-on investments in those old deals. Why does vintage matter to you?

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Manage And Schedule Appointments With TimeCenter

YoungUpstarts

Marie had been running a web development shop nicmar media since 2002, and had developed an online appointment scheduler for two of Sweden’s biggest companies in 2005. TimeCenter is developed by Sweden-based Niclas Marie and Daniel Ellenson. While the applications were very successful, it was never suited for small businesses.

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Vital Tips For Small Businesses And Entrepreneurs During Covid-19  

YoungUpstarts

Titus III, CPA/PFS, AIFA is the founder of AMDG Financial and AMDG Business Advisory Services in 2002. If you work with an adviser but aren’t sure you’re happy with how that adviser is helping you, now might be a good time to get a second opinion so you can begin to build a team you trust.

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How to find that first big customer

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

But this was 2002 when AdWords was affordable and I had no competitors, so you can’t repeat that — it doesn’t matter how I did it. It’s rarely true that your first customer will be big. It wasn’t true for me either. You won’t like my direct answers: AdWords. Here’s the full AdWords story.

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[Singapore] Westin Returns, Sets Up In Central Business District

YoungUpstarts

It’s been over a decade since Westin left Singapore’s shores; the hotel chain sold off its two properties – The Westin Stamford and The Westin Plaza – to Swissôtel and Raffles Hotel in 2002, after the brand’s own acquisition by Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide in 1998.

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