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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. As a successful online marketer with all long distance clients, she had been running her business entirely over the internet for years.

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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. However what is beginning to scare me is that valuations for these consumer internet plays are continuing to creep higher.

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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). Payments work.

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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). Payments work.

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Customers Love Free Stuff … But That’s Not Your Problem

abovethecrowd.com

Warren Buffet, 1997. The others are all B2B companies. “As they say in poker, ‘If you’ve been in the game 30 minutes and you don’t know who the patsy is, you’re the patsy.‘” Marketing 101: Customers love free stuff. Look at the following table recently posted on Twitter by Ari Levy, summarizing the DLs of the past 2 years or so.

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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.

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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! According to Mary Meeker’s 2016 Internet Trends Report , 6 of the world’s top 10 most used apps are messaging apps. Let’s be clear: Messaging isn’t some new, hot trend or magical technology. It’s been around since the mid-1990s.