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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. Maybe you worked there or a co-founder or investor has some juice). It’s rarely true that your first customer will be big. It wasn’t true for me either. I didn’t.

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How much does it cost to build the world’s hottest startups?

The Next Web

Founder Kevin Systrom launched Instagram with 25,000 beta users on October 6, 2010; two years later, the app continues to see massive growth, recently reporting 150 million active users. Luck, timing and social engineering are bigger components than most entrepreneurs care to imagine,” adds Werdelin. 3) Facebook. 6) Pinterest.

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5 Steps To Strategy Tuning Through Machine Learning

Startup Professionals Musings

Ming is the former chief of staff and strategy advisor to co-founder Jack Ma for over a decade, and outlines five key steps for automating decisions today as follows: Log and use consumer behavior and product transaction data. Apply machine-learning for real-time software decisions.

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To Infinity and Beyond: How Entrepreneurism is Making Space Tourism Viable

YoungUpstarts

In 1994 the American Society of Civil Engineers convened with business people in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to discuss the technical and financial feasibility of space tourism, then still a hypothetical concept. In 2000, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos established Blue Origin. Named after Alan B.

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Stitch Fix: Reinventing Retail Through Personalization

abovethecrowd.com

The company, which the founder cleverly named “Stitch Fix,” had a remarkably unique offering compared to other women’s fashion experiences. I immediately reached out to the founder and CEO, Katrina Lake , who had previously worked for another Benchmark portfolio company in the fashion space, Polyvore.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter September 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

The company’s founder, Amir Peleg, is a serial entrepreneur who previously also founded Yadata, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2008, Unipier, and EVS, which went public in 1991. P&G ACQUIRES ISRAELI MEDICAL DEVICE CO CONTIPI. 3M TO PAY $230 MILLION FOR ISRAELI TECHNOLOGY FIRM ATTENTI. Diversified U.S.

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Bottoms Up Everyone: A New Economic Revolution Is Upon Us

YoungUpstarts

Between 2002 and 2012, enterprises with over 1000 employees lost over a 1 million employees. The key to WePay’s ability to support platforms is our patent-pending risk engine technology, Veda, that lets us underwrite merchants of any size and shape. Enterprises with less than 25 people gained over a 1.5