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Stock Photos vs. Real Photos: Does It Matter?

ConversionXL

Here’s the problem: Every other poor schmuck in every other vertical has used the exact…same…photograph. Meet the “Everywhere Girl” Back in 1996, Jennifer Anderson posed for a stock photo shoot shortly after graduating college.

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Stock Photography vs. Real Photos: Can’t We Use Both?

ConversionXL

Here’s the problem: Every other poor schmuck in every other vertical has used the Exact. Back in 1996, Jennifer Anderson posed for a stock photo shoot shortly after graduating college. (“See, looks like Stock wasn’t so bad after all, was it Mr. Designer?”). Photograph. Meet The Everywhere Girl.

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The Age of Entrepreneurship

Startup Professionals Musings

The 55-64 age bracket exhibited the highest rate of entrepreneurial activity every year from 1996 to 2008, while the 20-34 bracket actually had the lowest rate. The vertical axis measures the “percentage of individuals. In fact, the rate of entrepreneurship was one third higher in the former group than in the latter.

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BUZZ Doesn’t Equal BUY: Three Factors To Look For When Seeking Stocks With Long-Term Value

YoungUpstarts

A Berkshire Hathaway Chairman’s Letter from 1996 underlines that point. Masterful execution makes up one of the triangle’s two vertical sides. (I He knows the stock will rise eventually because he buys only stocks of companies built for enduring success. Great strategy makes up the base of the triangle.

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Customer Development Manifesto: Market Type (part 4) « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Palm in a New Market What makes this example really interesting is this: rewind the story 4 years earlier to 1996. In 1996 no potential customer had even heard of a Personal Digital Assistant. In 1996 Palm was selling a product that allowed users to do something they couldn’t do before.

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11 Digital Marketing “Crimes Against Humanity”

Occam's Razor

That means I get to spend loads and loads of time across many industry verticals, see many many campaigns, translate many many foreign websites (thanks Google Chrome for auto-translate!) Your website was created in 1996, updated slightly in 2001, and left to rot ever since.

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Why We Prefer Founding CEOs

Ben's Blog

Jobs not only killed all the commodity hardware and the horizontal strategy; he went radically vertical. But remember that when Jobs returned to Apple in 1996, he was doing so as the co-founder and CEO of NeXT computer, a marginal computer workstation company which Apple purchased for less than $500M. He even added retail stores.