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5 Most Successful Products Ever and What Small Businesses Can Learn From Them

crowdSPRING Blog

So, set your business’s next product design on the path to profitability with the valuable lessons from these 5 positively staggering successful products. iPhone (2007). In 2007 Apple launched the iPhone and revolutionized the mobile phone industry. The iPhone’s industrial design was unprecedented.

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Visit to Case Foundation and Startup America

David Teten

Michael Smith, leader of the Social Innovation team at the Case Foundation , introduced the Foundation as a non-profit started in 1997 by Steve Case (AOL co-founder) and his wife, Jean Case. It’s designed to provide capacity to nonprofits in the areas that they’re weakest. 3 specific issues: 1. How we embrace technology for good.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. I believe a bubble occurs when a market is willing to pay greater than intrinsic value for an asset class. That asset class need not represent the broader market.

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March 11: SXSW Innovation Awards

Austin Startup

The annual Interactive Festival awards program began in 1997 as the Texas Interactive Media Achievement Awards, and was re-named the SXSW Web Awards the following year. SXSW audiences were among the first to witness the emergence of Twitter when they won the Best New App in 2007.

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15 Entrepreneurs Discuss Why they Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

I had the idea to start Blue Compass in 2007 because I saw the need for a service. And agents were struggling to connect with clients at the right time when they really needed help rather than prematurely because of the way these first websites were designed. In 1997 we were IT consultants. Photo Credit: Drew Harden.

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Publicity Stunts: When Good Ideas Go Bad

crowdSPRING Blog

Not surprisingly, Snapple declined to make a second attempt to break the official record, which had been set in Holland in 1997 by a 21-foot ice pop. Two trains were designated to travel around Texas to advertise the event. We Built This City. PR Destroyed It. They erected buildings, set up tents, and even erected a grandstand.

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The 10 Best Brick-And-Mortar Store Experiences

YoungUpstarts

Whether you love Apple or hate it, you can’t deny they’ve designed more than a place to sell products with their stores worldwide. IKEA stores are designed to wind customers through large, showrooms that showcase a variety of ways in which customers can use IKEA merchandise. billion in sales. Build-A-Bear.