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Ecommerce: How to Survive its Troughs

ReadWriteStart

This was also the time when major companies set up their online properties to sell and buy products. The breakthrough here is how smaller online shops found a platform that helped them reach the global market and be a part of this new rising phenomenon. But your brand’s name is nowhere to be seen.

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28 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Entrepreneurs They Consider to be Successful

Hearpreneur

He's not afraid to fail, and that willingness to experiment has led to some of Microsoft's most successful products. I consider Steve Jobs to be a very successful entrepreneur, not only because of his readily apparent financial prosperity but more so because he used his know-how of how people think to market his products incredibly well.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Disruptors

Hearpreneur

When I think, of a “disruptor,” the first name that comes to mind is Elon Musk. It is truly a wonder when you start thinking about the massive scale that Amazon works at and how far the company has come along since 1994. Photo Credit: Fletcher Wimbush. Thanks to Adam Crossling, Zenzero ! #7- 7- Netflix. Photo Credit: Carl Panepinto.

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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

Feld Thoughts

The remainder failed as a result of the phenomenon of investing in the best deals in their region which typically were not competitive on a national or global scale. However, none were based in the Silicon Valley and are probably unfamiliar names to today’s practitioners. I knew them all, because we all knew each other in this era.

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The Future of Work Is Not That Far Away

YoungUpstarts

by Cory Treffiletti, Global Head of Marketing, Webex.com at Cisco. While technology of the recent past has made businesses more productive and efficient, it tended to hamper the true human connection. Trend #2: Using technology to improve human connection. Think email and even conference calls. I think you’ll agree with the results.

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Addressing Common Enterprise Application Pain Points

YoungUpstarts

According to a December 2014 report from TechNavio, the global managed hosting services industry will expand at a compound annual growth rate of 12.63 Currently, big names like IBM and Red Hat have each released app marketplaces. Experts predict continued growth for this market as more organizations deploy enterprise applications.

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How Black People Leveraged Tech Bigotry to Boss the Blockchain Below the Radar

Austin Startup

The African-American community with a global movement known as the Afro-Tech quietly mastered blockchain/distributed ledger technology several years ago to benefit urban communities. If I buy a product from overseas in China, I’m having faith the shipper will operate on good faith but scared of being ripped off, that’s what make me human.