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

ConversionXL

His name was Mark Benioff (another former Oracle Executive) and in 1999 he had the pleasure to introduce the business world the first CRM in Cloud. It was 2003. Et voilà: the first CRM. Enter Cloud Computing and Marketing Automation at Scale. The Salesforce era was only at the beginning.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

The Rise of Mergers and Acquisitions -– March 2003 -2008 After the dot.com bubble collapsed, the IPO market (and most tech M&A deals) shutdown for technology companies. For the next four or five years, technology M&A boomed, growing from 50 in 2003 to 450 in 2006.

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CAN-SPAM Act is Important and Painful for Email Marketers

ReadWriteStart

After a couple of weeks, you figure out that your inbox is bombarded with email of different business verticals. In 2003, President George W. In other words, these fields should contain the sender’s name or the business name. Most of them were participants and prospective clients. And it’s an easy way to break the law.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

Imagine you want to store data about customers, each of whom has "last name" field in your database. The problem should be familiar to anyone who plays Scrabble: not all letter are equally likely to be used as the first letter of someones name. Give each entity a name. For example, consider this simple scheme.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Virtualitics

Austin Startup

Dr. Donalek also has a Minor Planet named after him as a reward for the work done in the automatic classification of celestial bodies, and has been part of the group that built the Big Picture, the single largest real astronomical image in the world (152-feet-wide, 20-feet-tall), currently installed at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles.

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What is Brand Identity and How To Create a Great One: A Complete Guide for Marketers and Businesses (2019)

crowdSPRING Blog

Branding is a process designed to develop, among other things, a unique business name and custom logo design for a company, product, or service. But branding isn’t solely about tangible concepts like a company’s name and logo. A simple but effective way to do this is to ask yourself, “would [persona name] do [action]?”.

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Google VP: Here's How to Get Bought By Us

mashable.com

But there’s also the satellite-mapping company Keyhole, which in 2003 became the seed that sprouted Google Maps. My team would like to sell a simple concept with intangible assets (domain names, copyrights, etc.) I would like to know, what are the areas/vertical they are looking for acquisition? July 18, 2012 11:30:30.