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There’s Something Abuzz With GoodBuzz

YoungUpstarts

Africa is not known to generate many technology talents – the country is far more prolific in its music, sport and art – but here’s one young African who intends to buck the trend. His first foray into technology was in 1995, when Koutonin, along with a few friends, created one of Togo’s first news website.

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The Simple Formal Beginnings Of Feld Technologies

Feld Thoughts

My first business partner, Dave Jilk, emailed me our original partnership agreement for Feld Technologies. It cost us $99 to do this – I remember using an organization called The Company Corporation - we called an 800 number, gave them some information, and the documents were automatically generated and filed.

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Are India’s IT managers holding back the country’s startup growth?

The Next Web

Narayana Murthy pulled a Michael Dell when he called time on his two-year-long retired life and retook charge at Infosys, the Indian information technology (IT) giant he had founded three decades ago in a small apartment with six others. Infosys would now be a technology solutions provider. All the way from 1993 to 2000.

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

ConversionXL

A Brief History of Marketing Technology Software. How their product leaders and CMOs embrace the change adjusting product/marketing strategies based on new technologies. 7 years later, in 1993, Tom Siebel thought that Oracle (the company where he was employed) could have sold the internal sales application as a standalone product.

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Revolution at the Edge

Ben's Blog

Technological revolutions follow a similar psychological dynamic. Marc released Mosaic in 1993. A review of the technology press in 1993 and 1994 reveals that almost nobody believed the Internet would be important. Unlike political regimes, technological rulers are comprised of products rather than people.

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Revolution at the Edge

Ben's Blog

Technological revolutions follow a similar psychological dynamic. Marc released Mosaic in 1993. A review of the technology press in 1993 and 1994 reveals that almost nobody believed the Internet would be important. Unlike political regimes, technological rulers are comprised of products rather than people.

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Why Pioneers Have Arrows In Their Backs

Steve Blank

In fact, a 1993 paper by Peter N. Over the next ten years, while Ford focused on cost reductions, General Motors built a diverse and differentiated product line. None of the market leaders in technology were the first movers. [1] Fast Followers – a better idea. Golder and Gerard J. That’s unlikely. 1] Montgomery, M.