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Customer Data Platforms: The Next Big Shift in SaaS Marketing Stacks?

ConversionXL

All manual operations. It was 2003. Organizing multi-channel campaigns, segmenting audiences, and distributing personalized content, suddenly appeared to be easy, like never before. Just like cars with a great engine but no wheels. Back in 1986 when digital marketing was just taking off, a company called ACT!

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The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

Philip Bouchard : You’ve started teaching at Berkeley since 2002, Columbia in 2003 and at Stanford since 2011. At Stanford, Tom Byers , who runs the innovation and entrepreneurship program inside the engineering school, has made that a big deal and it’s now part of the curriculum. Distribution channels, brand loyalty, etc.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

Other companies, like Blue Origin, Firefly Space and Space X are all conducting operations in Texas, both together with NASA and for their own unique space ventures. In short, the first wave of internet companies were widely distributed and brought people online (AOL in Virginia, Microsoft in Albuquerque and Seattle, Dell in Austin, etc.)

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My XOXO Talk

Bryce Dot VC

As a venture funded startup, you’re supposed to operate a certain way. So last year Eileen Lee, did this amazing study where she dug into data going back to 2003. In that case, if you want to pay yourself more than 150% of a market salary, we would consider that a distribution. Then we put a 5X cap on the distributions.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. Four years later, in May of 2003, they launched Taobao Marketplace, Alibaba’s answer to eBay. As a result, productivity naturally improves.

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Lean Startup Conference Speaker Ann Miura-Ko on being a founder, representation, and the future.

Startup Lessons Learned

The first time was just for a couple years, from 2001-2003, before I went to grad school. I was working on putting together dinners with potential female operators who were interested in becoming venture capitalists. And then I taught a class called “Intelligent Growth in Startups” in the engineering department.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

This is the first post in what’s going to be a series of blogs on how to go from nothing – no connections, no team, no money and no knowledge of how the startup industry really works – to operating a growing business. I’m taking a 52 week course in how to start up, run, operate, and achieve self employment. Sorry, folks.