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Top 15 ESG Startups to Watch in 2024

The Startup Magazine

The UN’s 2004 “Who Cares Wins” report was a major milestone, but it wasn’t until The Paris Agreement in 2015 that ESG took center stage, pushing companies to focus on environmental impact. As a result, the EU calls for a global ban on certain plastic products to combat pollution.

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How to Use Frugal Innovation to Grow Your Startup

ReadWriteStart

Investors can also be skittish, and winning new customers is not easy. However, a crisis can also be a golden opportunity to launch a new product or service, as long as the startup at the origin applies specific methods. As a startup, you probably don’t have much money to spend on marketing or product development.

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Customer (product) value trumps brand value – M&A data

The Equity Kicker

This chart (which I saw on Broadstuff and was originally published in the Harvard Business Review ) is from audited company accounts following mergers and acquisitions: …we looked at the value of brands and customer relationships as revealed by M&A data covering over 6,000 mergers and acquisitions worldwide between 2003 and 2013.

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“Customer First” Healthcare

abovethecrowd.com

While other industries often speak of being “customer centric” or “putting the customer first,” the U.S. healthcare system rarely thinks of the patient as a customer. healthcare market is the least customer centric of any customer service industry. One could go even farther, and suggest that the U.S.

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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

Ted Rheingold: In 2003 I owned and ran a web service business called OneMatchFire , and made a number of image sharing products for customers (or as side projects). I spent 6 months coding and building Dogster myself. Dogster launched January 12, 2004 (Happy 12th Birthday Dogster!) How did the site come about?

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Demand Generation: 7 Tactics to Fuel Your Funnel

ConversionXL

It uses marketing to raise brand awareness and get people excited about your products or services. Longer customer journeys and drawn-out purchase decisions influenced by multiple touchpoints. The right idea should unite your mission with what your customers want to achieve. Today’s buyers are more empowered than ever.

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Why Every Company Needs A DevOps Team Now

Feld Thoughts

Our findings went into a book that we published in 2004 called The Visible Ops Handbook , which described how these organizations made their “good to great” transformation. They are doing tens, hundreds or even thousands of code deploys per day, while delivering world-class stability, reliability and security.

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