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Pop-ups — Is Annoying Your Customers Worth a Few Newsletter Sign-ups?

Up and Running

By 1997, the pop-up plague had spread to sites across the net, including Geocities, AOL, and The New York Times. Adware (software built primarily to advertise to users) like Gator began to appear. Design for your audience. To do this, you need to spend time understanding what works for your audience.

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Sustaining Innovation vs. Disruptive Innovation

YoungUpstarts

A sustaining innovation targets demanding, high-end customers with better performance than what was previously available. Because this strategy entails making a better product that they can sell for higher profit margins to their best customers, the established competitors have powerful motivations to fight sustaining battles.

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Sustaining Innovation vs. Disruptive Innovation

The Startup Magazine

Scholar and innovation expert Clayton Christensen explains it this way: A sustaining innovation targets demanding, high-end customers with better performance than what was previously available. When mainstream customers start adopting the entrants’ offerings in volume, disruption has occurred. And they have the resources to win.

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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. We invest in Code for America (“Peace Corps for Geeks”).

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Back in 1997, when I was a high school junior and my brother Evan was a freshman, we launched a local moving service called Meathead Movers. Our commitment to good ole’ fashioned customer service and dedicated work ethic instantly led to word-of-mouth referrals about the clean-cut, student-athletes’ impressive work.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

I asked what the audience most needed to hear. This was an audience of mostly first-time entrepreneurs. 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. customers who paid for services often get burned.

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

crowdSPRING Blog

05:00 PM: Eight Ways to Deal with Bastards – If 99% of your customers are fantastic, you’re still going to deal with bastards. A social translation program is one way you can make your website more accessible to a global audience for less. How are user-generated reviews changing how restaurants operate and how we eat?

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