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True Story: How Bplans.com Started in 1995

Up and Running

January of 1995. The so-called “Internet” had existed for years, but seemed to the rest of us (anybody outside of a few spook havens and ivory towers) like a nerdy background utility for emails. Few people knew of the Internet, Mozilla, and the world-wide web. And I started bplans.com.

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Why Businesses Must Grasp Millennial Thinking Or Face Economic Calamity

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Millennials are the generation born roughly from 1981 to 1995, meaning that the older millennials aren’t that far from 40. Think emails, text messages, and online messaging. Millennials are changing how we buy, how we sell, how we vacation, how we invest, and just about everything else. and that’s a lot of buying power.

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How The Right Employees Have An Innovation Advantage

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, Google was already a big company when Paul Buchheit was unhappy with the capabilities of external email for internal communications at Google. An employee of Sun Microsystems, James Gosling, created a new object-oriented programming language called Oak in 1995. Exhibit market awareness and a drive to win.

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How The New General Data Protection Regulation Will Affect Online Businesses

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The new regulations replace the 1995 EU Data Protection Directive and the 1998 UK Data Protection Act. Because of the changes, you may have noticed new cybersecurity and privacy popups on sites when you land on them, or updates terms of use sent to your email.

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There’s Something Abuzz With GoodBuzz

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His first foray into technology was in 1995, when Koutonin, along with a few friends, created one of Togo’s first news website. GoodBuzz allows organizers to leverage on various channels – email, social networks, banners, word-of-mouth, etc. – to promote their campaigns.

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Introducing the Rocky Mountain Artificial Intelligence Interest Group (RMAIIG)

Feld Thoughts

I met Dan in 1995, shortly after moving to Colorado, and we have been friends ever since. Dan started the Rocky Mountain Internet Users Group (RMIUG) in 1994, almost 30 years ago, eventually growing to over 15,000 subscribers on their email lists. RMAIIG was founded by Dan Murray.

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Keys To Develop A Great Small Business Growth Strategy

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Small businesses are responsible for as much as 65 percent of the new jobs created since 1995. The use of online marketing, email campaigns and other efforts are effective ideas in many industries. Both will not happen without a heavy investment into marketing.