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Out of the Crisis #13: Alpha Lee on remembering the 2003 SARS epidemic and his opensource COVID-19 Moonshot

Startup Lessons Learned

A lot of the discussion and news around this pandemic has focused on the timelines to get therapeutics and vaccines to market, and I think a lot of the discussion has been about the very lengthy human trials, the clinical stage of drug discovery. Eric Ries : Wow. Eric Ries : It seems like a lot. Eric Ries : Yeah. That's exactly it.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

A lot of people ask me what it was like raising the Series A round for LinkedIn back in 2003. I thought I’d revisit it and share the story… First, you have to rewind mentally to early 2003. The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today.

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Twitter Link Roundup #205 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! It compares a 2013 smart phone (an iPhone) to what you had to carry just 10 years earlier (in 2003) to have some of the same tools (camera, video, music, etc.).

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The Top 5 Stock Exchanges According to a 2020 Study

The Startup Magazine

With the market being steadier and shareholders watching price activity all day long, stock markets around the globe have become far more important than it ever was. The New York Stock Exchange has been the largest stock exchange by market capitalisation in the world since the end of the World War. Which has a US$ 30.1

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

ConversionXL

You see, the current structure of the modern marketing stack leads to a large amount of data fragmentation. A Brief History of Marketing Technology Software. How their product leaders and CMOs embrace the change adjusting product/marketing strategies based on new technologies. It was 2003. All manual operations.

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Google Finally Weaving Local Strategy :: Small Business Marketing.

Duct Tape Marketing

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch.

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Good Marketing Strategy Becomes Culture :: Small Business.

Duct Tape Marketing

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch.