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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. As a reminder, the Dot Com bubble was a five-year period from August 1995 (the Netscape IPO ) when there was a massive wave of experiments on the then-new internet, in commerce, entertainment, nascent social media, and search.

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Keys To Develop A Great Small Business Growth Strategy

YoungUpstarts

Small businesses are responsible for as much as 65 percent of the new jobs created since 1995. Cameron Johnson is a business consultant and social media expert. Over the course of his career he has conducted case studies on both social media optimization and non-profit marketing.

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How AI And Big Data Are Changing Century-Old Media Companies

YoungUpstarts

There were exceptions from time to time — if a WSJ story was shared on social media, nonsubscribers could often read it — but the paywall has stood solidly, and it has helped the publication accumulate nearly 3 million combined paid subscribers for its print and online content. Old Media Models Are Melting Down. A lot of eyeballs.

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How to Hack Growth When Growth Stalls

ConversionXL

Reporting in the Harvard Business Review on a major study of growth stalls they conducted, Olson and his colleagues cite the case of the iconic brand Levi Strauss, which hit a historic high mark of sales in 1995, reaching revenue of $7 billion, but then, starting in 1996, saw a decline in sales so precipitous that by 2000, revenue was down to $4.6

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13 industries that tech founders should watch

The Next Web

Sponsored content is a great way to increase your visibility, position your brand as a market expert, and create buzz around your brand on social media. As my co-founder likes to say, augmented reality today is equivalent to the Internet in 1995. Customized advertising. Yuriy Boykiv , Gravity Media. Sponsored content.

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The Best Books for Marketers (New and Old)

ConversionXL

One of the first books to explore the challenges of an increasingly fast-paced media and marketing landscape, you’ll learn how to position yourself to remain top of mind. Gerber (1995). On marketing and advertising. . – Al Ries. Reverse brands say no where others say yes. On business building and strategy.

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Soundbites from the future

Start Up Blog

Mass media, top 40, stadium ethic and the horrible idea of the Grand Prix is out dated. It is being reborn now that media is interactive and not passive. Australia has the highest usage and penetration of social media at an average of 7 hours a month. People born after 1995 have never know life without the internet.

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