ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

One of the greatest threats to long-term success is when companies aren’t vigilant enough about responding to the changes in their market—whether it’s by failing to spot product or channel fatigue, acknowledge new competition, make needed updates to products or marketing adjustments in a timely fashion, or embrace new technology coming online.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

Coursera’s catalog offers a wide variety of courses, from music and art to technology, science , and business. The courses offered by edX run the gamut from the usual university courses in arts and humanities, science, and engineering, to business-related courses offered by well-known schools like the Wharton School of Business.

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Programming Technical Review Small Business Illinois 48

Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

Technological revolutions follow a similar psychological dynamic. A review of the technology press in 1993 and 1994 reveals that almost nobody believed the Internet would be important. Unlike political regimes, technological rulers are comprised of products rather than people. Marc released Mosaic in 1993.

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Romania Software Review Cloud Mobile 36

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

by Daniel Haurey, president of Exigent Technologies. Traditional standards of value are changing as technology progresses at a screaming pace. The technology industry is reinventing the traditional definition of value and data is king. With data there are extra network effects.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

I was 23 and had been programming computers, designing computer networks and selling software for 10 years. For 1991 I was very technical and also had a lot of practical business implementation experience in technology. My colleagues that graduated with engineering degrees from UCSD were paid $31,000 – 15% more.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

When we started the company it was only web-based and we thought that the best idea would be simply to call it by the website address (driving tests), particularly seeing as the main marketing strategy was search engine optimization, we secured a domain name that was an exact match keyword for what it does and everything was self-service.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2014

Being a physicist-turned-engineer, I have very little experience working with anything but men. I liked meeting people, hearing the company plans, learning about their technology, figuring out if it was for real—all that was fun. My first IPO wasn’t until 1995—the VC business takes patience. And successfully. That might be neat.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2013

by Chris Bross, Strategic Technology Alliance Manager at DriveSavers Data Recovery. Chris Bross is Strategic Technology Alliance Manager at DriveSavers Data Recovery , the worldwide leader in certified secure data recovery. In fact, a recent study by Symantec found that 57% of SMBs have no disaster recovery plan.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

What makes this tricky is that markets evolve, and an innovative technology or business model can transform a normal market into a Glengarry Glen Ross market. Google realized that being the way to find the world’s information was a blitzscalable market, thanks to the network effects in its AdWords revenue engine.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

In 1995 Paul started a company that aimed to put art galleries online. Do the same thing on other social networks with advertising platforms, like LinkedIn and Facebook. At first, Google seemed like a bad idea; there were already several search engines doing what they did. Simply put, it’s not solving a real-life problem.

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Ben's Blog

JANUARY 2, 2014

Lately, it’s become in vogue to write articles, comments and tweets about everything that’s wrong with young technology companies. The word technology means “a better way of doing things.” The technology startup world is where brilliant people come to imagine the impossible. George Bernard Shaw. The Computer.

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Ben's Blog

JANUARY 2, 2014

Lately, it’s become in vogue to write articles, comments and tweets about everything that’s wrong with young technology companies. The word technology means “a better way of doing things.” The technology startup world is where brilliant people come to imagine the impossible. George Bernard Shaw. The Computer.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Technology. Personal Technology. TECHNOLOGY. Craig Walker, co-founder and CEO of Firespotter Labs, a technology incubator, said it feels unnatural to bestow so much voting power on one executive. This time around, technology entrepreneurs are being more assertive. WSJ Classroom. Ran gold Resources Ltd. My Journal.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

It struck me that had the technology existed, travelers could have taken advantage of our empty aircraft to get back to London and then the aircraft could be dropped in Oxford, with minimal additional cost. The wedding industry is notoriously one of the least technologically advanced retail sectors. Image Credit: Brittany Haas.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

There was also an opportunity to use technology to build a much more efficient business – one that could pass savings from those efficiencies onto borrowers. We had been developing the company’s product for a while, but we needed to find a name in 1995 to incorporate the company. 7 – Great Introductions. Thanks to Collin J.

Naming 48

Naming Entrepreneur Haiti Nigeria 48

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 17, 2011

I wrote it in 1978 but didn’t self-publish until 1995. Group meetings are possible via computer networking. The department I was assigned to was a wartime department that had been set up to support a team of engineers who were working on developing the first computer- fired field artillery piece.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Pierre Omidyar founded AuctionWeb in September of 1995, and its rise to fame is legendary. Without the proper technology to match people who wanted a ride with people who could provide that service, taxi and chauffeur companies were drastically underserving the potential market. Exchange of Goods Marketplaces.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 20, 2013

The small team, building a brand-new product, out-innovating complacent incumbents…not only is the experience fresh and exciting, it also focuses on the things most founders love—especially technical ones: Solving interesting problems, developing new technologies, devising a unique strategy. This can work, too.

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