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Driven to Distraction – the future of car safety

Steve Blank

The Department of Transportation was created in 1966 but it wasn’t until 1979 that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ( NHTSA ) started crash-testing cars (the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety started their testing in 1995). In 1984 New York State mandated seat belt use ( now required in 49 of the 50 states.).

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Companies They Admire Most For Innovation

Hearpreneur

JetBlue has had to recreate established models and vertically integrate where the adjacent experiences for the customer and courageous brand to reinvent an entire ecosystem in this way. Starting with the ‘1984’ advertisement , Apple has changed the way we should be thinking, controlling our lives, and operating as individuals.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

Pierre Omidyar founded AuctionWeb in September of 1995, and its rise to fame is legendary. In many cases, a deeper focus on a particular category or vertical allows these marketplaces to distinguish themselves from broader marketplaces like eBay. Exchange of Goods Marketplaces. That is quite a bit of supplemental income for U.S.-based

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

The world of building profitable startups as the primary goal of Venture Capital would end in 1995. The IPO Bubble – August 1995 – March 2000 In August 1995 Netscape went public, and the world of start ups turned upside down. They taught you about customers, markets and profits.

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

alexpoole.info

Legibility is concerned with the very fine details of typeface design, and in an operational context this usually means the ability to recognise individual letters or words. Ascenders and are the vertical strokes which rise above the body of a character or x-height. 1995 ; De Lange et al., 1995 , Reynolds, 1979 ).

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These are the British Businesses Adopting Green and Sustainable Practices

The Startup Magazine

Such things include installing solar panels which provide the theatre with up to six kilowatts of electricity, solar thermal panels to heat tap water, LED lighting as well as the DC microgrid technology which helps makes use of the solar power for charging battery operated items. So what are the takeaways from this for SMEs?

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