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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. 12- Solve a problem in international B2B payments. Thanks to Dr. Dan Danyo, North Atlanta Hair Restoration ! #4- 4- Started as a part-time work. Photo Credit: Aaron Steed.

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7 Compelling Reasons Why You Should Redesign Your Small Business Website

crowdSPRING Blog

According to the Content Marketing Institute , 70% of the surveyed B2B marketers say they are creating more content this year than in the prior year. Even if you have a blog, it might be lost in your website navigation and might look like it was designed in 1997. You want more effective content. Content is king.

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Are all of the venture returns in B2B?

BeyondVC

The article is right in that alot of buzz gets centered on consumer Internet companies like Google or YouTube and that on absolute market capitalization many of the big returns are found in the B2B type deals. The post Are all of the venture returns in B2B? Limelight Networks: $100mm pre-IPO with the big round in summer 2006, $1.6b

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A dumb American’s perspective on investing in Southeast Asia

Hippoland

I’d be curious what other people in-region think about this (and keep in mind, I won’t be doing the investing there, Shiyan will be :) ): 1) There are opportunities galore People like to use chronological analogies, so if I had to do that here, I would put investment opportunities in SEA at around 1997. more on this below).

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A dumb American’s perspective on investing in Southeast Asia

Hippoland

I’d be curious what other people in-region think about this (and keep in mind, I won’t be doing the investing there, Shiyan will be :) ): 1) There are opportunities galore People like to use chronological analogies, so if I had to do that here, I would put investment opportunities in SEA at around 1997. more on this below).

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Should You Get Rid of Your Website’s Lead Forms?

ConversionXL

The first wave of messaging software arrived with ICQ (launched in 1996), followed by AIM (1997), Yahoo! Case in point: Earlier this year, we ran a secret shopper-style survey where we filled out lead capture forms and made sales inquires on 433 B2B websites. Let’s be clear: Messaging isn’t some new, hot trend or magical technology.

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

alexpoole.info

Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). When I was new to the marketing and advertising B2B world in the 70′s & 80′s, I recall reading an Adweek article that reported research that claimed increased readability, meaning comprehension, and reader attentiveness for serif vs. non-serif fonts. Review article. Thanks for your insights.