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[Review] Loveworks

YoungUpstarts

“ Loveworks ” builds on that premise, and looks at how various marketing concepts – some of which, like virality, have become the epitome of hype – are exemplified through these marketing examples as executed by Saatchi & Saatchi across the world in various categories for different clients.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Later they failed to keep up with technologies and the digital boom and have even filed for bankruptcy twice. With a new CEO in 2004, the toy company shifted gears and introduced new lines of some of the most popular LEGO sets in history. It's steadily risen to the most popular toymaker spot once more.

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LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs

reidhoffman.org

What I’ve honorably been able to do, however, is share the deck I used to pitch LinkedIn to Greylock for a Series B investment back in 2004. the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. In 2004, the consumer internet was just beginning to rebound. In 2004, investors regained interest in the consumer internet again.

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

Both Sides of the Table

Offers virality optimization tools and A/B testing inside Facebook. Danish VOIP technology company founded in 2006 by entrepreneur Tanveer Sharif. Based in Palo Alto and founded in 2004 by PayPal alumni. Total Raised: $21.4mm. See: TechCrunch. Kontagent. -A Analytics also extend to iPhone and web apps using Facebook Connect.

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Wednesday Guest Stars :: Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct.

Duct Tape Marketing

When not working directly with her clients or shooting her show, Shama travels the world speaking on business, entrepreneurship, and technology. Shama is a bestselling author with her book - The Zen of Social Media Marketing: An Easier Way to Build Credibility, Generate Buzz, and Increase Revenue.

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

What makes this tricky is that markets evolve, and an innovative technology or business model can transform a normal market into a Glengarry Glen Ross market. Thanks to the internet and other globalizing technologies, the entire world has entered the Networked Age. The third is high gross margins.

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Should Founders Be Allowed to Take Money off the Table?

Both Sides of the Table

But more spend = more viral opps = more revenue down the road. >50% of our revenue in now viral. Ironically our business started to perform very will by 2004 but by then management had lost the dream of a huge upside. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital.

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