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Ted Rheingold Founded Dogster in 2004: Five Questions About Building a Startup, Selling a Startup and Whether SF Is Still a Good Place

Hunter Walker

Dogster launched January 12, 2004 (Happy 12th Birthday Dogster!) By the end of 2004 I had brought on two co-founders: John Vars – who is now the Chief Product Office at TaskRabbit, and Steven Reading took over Sales and Revenue. This was pre-Google images, pre-MySpace/Facebook. I spent 6 months coding and building Dogster myself.

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The Evolution Of The Podcast

Duct Tape Marketing

Todd is the CEO of Blubrry Podcasting – a podcast media company that represents 105,000 Audio and Video podcasters in which his company provides advertising opportunities, media distribution/hosting, podcast media statistics, and other services. That was the one they started in 2004. So Todd, welcome to the show.

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How to Radically Stand Out with Brand Marketing

ConversionXL

He was swiftly followed by Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic in 2004. By demonstrating proven marketing expertise, we can provide a consistent, valuable experience for our audience. Where marketing teams rely on heatmaps and C-suite opinions, Wynter aims to change how marketers write copy based on the feedback of target audiences.

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6 Medical Professionals Who Are Killing It On Social Media

YoungUpstarts

Social Media is a funny place. Enter the new breed, the doctor blogs, the general medical academic blogs, and the nursing blogs taking social media by the horns and making waves. KevinMD – KevinMD is a website founded in 2004 by physician Kevin Pho. There is a new breed of blogger (and vlogger!)

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

As a reminder, the Dot Com bubble was a five-year period from August 1995 (the Netscape IPO ) when there was a massive wave of experiments on the then-new internet, in commerce, entertainment, nascent social media, and search. This same risk averse, conserve the cash, VC mindset would return after the 2008 meltdown of the housing market.).

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3 Simple Ways to Empower Your Customers to Sell For You :: Small.

Duct Tape Marketing

I was speaking at a small event when an audience member came up and told me they had followed me for years, read my books and were really excited to meet me. 1) Let me introduce you I discovered the power of this first tactic quite by accident. Now that’s a happy customer!

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30 Entrepreneurs Discuss Whether or Not There Will Be More Entrepreneurs in the Future

Hearpreneur

More and more people are creating their business online, developing it through social media. The number of new entrepreneurs in the US has been rising annually since 2004. More and more people are starting their own businesses due to websites and social media making it easier to connect with the world and see what the market demands.