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4 key traits retailers need to adopt to thrive in 2018

The Next Web

Though Kohn and Sting got the party started, the age of ecommerce didn’t truly begin in earnest until 1997. On August 11, 1994, the first ever ecommerce transaction occurred when a 21-year-old in New Hampshire named Dan Kohn sold a copy of Sting’s Ten Summoner’s Tales to a friend in Philadelphia who paid $12.48 by credit card.

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[Sponsored] Why Angel Broking Demat Account Is Your Best Investment Option In 2018

YoungUpstarts

DEMAT Account came into existence in India in the year of 1997, before which stocks and shares were issued as well as traded in physical paper form.

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What Happens When Leaders Forget The Culture That Made Their Company Great?

YoungUpstarts

The company was already reeling from two Boeing 737 Max crashes in 2018 and 2019 that killed 346 passengers in Indonesia and Ethiopia, and forced the company to ground its entire fleet of Max jetliners.

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March 11: SXSW Innovation Awards

Austin Startup

The German marching band Meute performing at the 2018 SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards The Forrest Four-Cast: Feb 19, 2019 50 of the world’s top startups will be showcased at SXSW Pitch 2019. The early entry process for the 2019 awards opened on June 25, 2018, with regular entry running from August 17 to October 11.

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Meet our Startup Chica Committee Members

Austin Startup

Paulina Cabrera, Operation Coordinator for Solar Winds and Latinitas Volunteer Paulina Cabrera Paulina Cabrera grew up in Arlington, TX, but had the wonderful experience of living in Neiva, Colombia from 1997 to 2000. In 2018 only 2.2% She attended Full Sail University in Winter Park, FL to learn about art and design for video games.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #11: New Year’s advice for middle-aged people

Austin Startup

I was fortunate to live in Silicon Valley for six years before moving to “Silicon Hills” in 1997?—?having DFS was formed in 1997 to provide Dell customers the best financing options. For the eleventh selection of The Entrepreneur’s Essentials, I’m in a New Year’s type of mindset with this date being Dec.

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

2018 set yet another all-time record for the number of paper books sold in the United States, as has been repeatedly true during the era of Amazon. Or to put it another way: If you owned a corner bookstore in 1997, would you be better off today if you had invested $10,000 in expanding your physical store—or in the Amazon IPO?