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How to Be Ready for What’s Next

Duct Tape Marketing

Under his leadership, the company grew from just over $6 million in annual revenue in 1993 to over $1.6 Search for your unique .site Under his leadership, the company grew from just over $6 million in annual revenue in 1993 to over $1.6 He has seen what it takes to make the impossible, possible. You too can get your very own .site

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21 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

When a couple of Chicago software developers working on Apartments.com's lookup searches got tired of phoning restaurants to order takeout, it dawned on them: Why isn't there a one-stop shop for food delivery? In 1993, the company reported losses of around $8 billion, one of the most enormous company losses until that time.

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Why Pioneers Have Arrows In Their Backs

Steve Blank

In fact, a 1993 paper by Peter N. In 1998 Goto.com , a small startup (later Overture, now part of Yahoo ! ), created the pay per click search engine and advertising system and demo’d it at the TED conference. Fast Followers – a better idea. Golder and Gerard J. Golder and G. Pioneer Advantage: Marketing Logic or Marketing Legend ?”

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Why the Browser Matters

Ben's Blog

Before my partner Marc Andreessen and his friends at the University of Illinois invented the browser in 1993, most people thought only scientists and researchers would use the Internet. In 1996, there was no social networking, no video, no search that worked, no RSS, and no Twitter to name a few. Lil Wayne, Swag Surfin.

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Why Female Founder Office Hours is So Important

Both Sides of the Table

In Dan Rather’s book he talks about Ruth Bader Ginsberg who was appointed the the Supreme Court in 1993. Dan talks about a landmark case in 2009 that involved whether it was legal to strip search a 13-year-old girl. Of the 106 judges who preceded her 105 of them were men (Sandra Day O’Connor was the first woman).

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15 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

In my case, I grew up in an apartment in a country in Europe where we refer to apartments to as “flats” After an exhaustive search and writing down name after name it dawned on me. Finally, after months of searching, I found springpop. The right name should be timeless, proprietary, easy to say and it should stand for something.

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Entrepreneurship for the 99%

Steve Blank

million) of the 15 million net new jobs created between 1993 and 2009. That accelerating business model search and discovery and using guided customer engagement as a learning process, we could help founders of mainstream businesses just like those starting technology ventures. of the ~6 million companies in the U.S.