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10 Predictions About the Future of Ecommerce

mashable.com

Todays customers are experiencing your product or service across platforms — from mobile, Web, physical, media and referral sources. A customer may first experience your brand from a personal referral, but then may explore on mobile or a tablet before doing a deep dive on the Web. ©2005-2013 Mashable, Inc. startupcto'

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

By day he works on web and social media for HP. The hardware trend showed that internet connection speeds were increasing, and by 2005, the speed of the connection would be sufficient that we could reasonably stream video in real time without resorting to heroic amounts of video compression or miracles in internet protocols.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

While Google fights on the edges, Amazon is attacking their core - Chris Dixon , May 22, 2010 Google is fighting battles on almost every front: social networking, mobile operating systems, web browsers, office apps, and so on. The New York Times has a story about it in today's business section. they released a new 2.0

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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

Both Sides of the Table

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. Oh, yeah. Positive feedback feeds the idea.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 19: Carmen Medina and Don Burke

Steve Blank

Joining me in SiriusXM’s studio in New York were: Carmen Medina , former director of the Center for the Study of Intelligence at the Central Intelligence Agency and co-author of Rebels at Work. In 2005, while at the CIA, Don helped found Intellipedia , the Intelligence Community-wide wiki, with his colleague Sean Dennehy.

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

mashable.com

a New York-based sizzle reel production company specializing in promotional videos for PR and marketing professionals, and the Young Entrepreneur Council. Partners W3 EDGE Concentric Sky Rackspace Intridea Dynect DNS Webtrends Global Syndication Partners ABCNews CNN Forbes Metro USAToday Yahoo ©2005-2011 Mashable, Inc.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials: Introduction

Austin Startup

We would leverage the voice of the customer, starting with customer reviews, all over the Web, starting with retailers. Believe it or not, there were only three retailers in 2005 that offered customer reviews, the most popular of them being Amazon. this was 2005. Timing was again on our side. And speaking of luck, remember?—?this