article thumbnail

Ecommerce: How to Survive its Troughs

ReadWriteStart

This new shift impacted as much as a 4% improvement in total sales of brands that had made the shift. Brands started working towards creating their online portals to push for sales online while continuing their brick and mortar operations. But your brand’s name is nowhere to be seen. million annual customers.

eCommerce 152
article thumbnail

Digital Transformation And The Evolution of Apps – What’s The Link?

YoungUpstarts

However, it wasn’t until 1983 when the first commercially viable mobile phones went on sale in the U.S. It was launched in 1994, and had over 10 inbuilt apps. Additionally, while the names of critical vulnerabilities and insidious malware may have changed, the underlying security threat is still there for consumer and corporate data.

SMS 164
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

4 Reasons To Consider A New Domain Name For Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

I remember back in 1994 when a friend asked if I’d like to buy a domain name. I have to believe that Google’s search results will always value high-quality domain names because someone like me who’s investing a lot in the domain name itself, is also likely to invest in developing a high-quality website that will be relevant to users.

Naming 113
article thumbnail

3 Ways Technology Is Changing Small Business Lending

YoungUpstarts

In 1994 Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said, “retail banks are dinosaurs, they can be bypassed,” in a Newsweek interview. Traditional banks have helped fuel business and economic growth by providing small business owners with startup loans, general business loans, lines of credit and refinancing programs, to name a few.

article thumbnail

6 Tips for Coming Up With Your Million-Dollar Business Idea

Up and Running

With my third business, I didn’t even try to be original—I purchased a custom framing franchise and piggybacked to success on someone else’s name. Beth developed her own intensive curriculum and, with the help of seed money from a student, founded YogaFit® in 1994 to fill the niche. Write it down on a napkin. Beth’s advice.

Detroit 156
article thumbnail

28 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Entrepreneurs They Consider to be Successful

Hearpreneur

As early as 1994, he had guessed that the Internet would be the next boom, and people would prefer to buy things online in the future. Uber became a household name in only a matter of years, and although there have been many complaints about the service, you can’t deny the way that it has changed the transport industry worldwide.

article thumbnail

How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

Michael Parekh , a Wall Streeter for over 20 years, former Partner at Goldman Sachs, and Founder of its Internet Research effort in 1994, Michael has been living online since the early days of CompuServe in the 80s and AOL in the ’90s. Michael was the lead research analyst for the IPOs of Internet companies like UUNET, Yahoo!