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

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iPhone (2007). In 2007 Apple launched the iPhone and revolutionized the mobile phone industry. Lipitor (1997). Japan – technical juggernaut and one of the most powerful economies around the globe – chose a video game hero to represent their culture on the global stage. Image courtesy of MacWorld.

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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. Case Foundation didn’t have a website until 2005, although founded 1997. Give to the Max” days. Promoting innovation.

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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. That said, for every set of global challenges there are entrepreneurs dreaming of solutions, solving big problems and ready to lead us into the next 20 years.

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Business Week Report on “Radical Future of R&D” Misses Critical Capital Markets Link in Innovation Ecosystem

Pascal's View

The cover story of the September 7 issue of Business Week reports on the “ Radical Future of R&D “, focusing on the internationalization of research and development led by global corporations such as IBM and Hewlett Packard. But from 2000 to the end of 2007, the rate plunged to 900,000 a year. In the 1990s the U.S.

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Servant Leadership In Action

YoungUpstarts

Answered by Colleen Barrett, president emeritus of Southwest Airlines, winner of the Tony Jannus Award in 2007 and the prestigious Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy in 2016.). When I think of servant leadership I think of Pat Summitt, my basketball coach at the University of Tennessee from 1997 to 2001. Answered by Stephen M.

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The Future of Television & The Digital Living Room

Both Sides of the Table

Attempts at “moving up the stack&# – In 1997 I led a project to help senior management at British Telecom define its Internet strategy. Fast forward nearly a decade and it was unsurprising to me to see the death grip that global mobile operators placed over the handsets. Given the choice I always watch independent film.

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Startups and small biz at SXSW: ideas on how to spend your time at the conference!

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A social translation program is one way you can make your website more accessible to a global audience for less. A social translation program is one way you can make your website more accessible to a global audience for less. Saturday, March 13th. Representatives from successful translation projects share what works.

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