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Why Now Is The Right Time For New Green Technology

YoungUpstarts

Take a look through the history of recent technological innovations: Beside the glowing milestones of smartphones and hybrid cars, you’ll find a more subdued narrative. Numerous factors must combine to create the perfect timing for a piece of technology to arrive in the market and succeed. The Rise of Green Technology.

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Clayton Christensen

Steve Blank

If you’re reading my blog, odds are you know who Clayton Christensen was. I remember the first time I read the Innovator’s Dilemma in 1997. His message was that existing companies are great at sustaining technologies and products but were ignoring the threat of disruption. Eye Opening.

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Congratulations IndexTank!

K9 Ventures

Diego and I first met in 1997. he had to build his indexing technology to be able to update very quickly and filter out stale data very quickly. And so began Diego’s foray into search technology. IndexTank (@ IndexTank ) has been acquired by LinkedIn ! Diego had just started in the MSE program. Diego was smarter than me.

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[Review] Twitter Is Not A Strategy

YoungUpstarts

In its first two chapters, the book argues that while digital technology have rocked our worlds, the fundamentals of strong brands have not changed. A case in point is Apple, whose “Think Different” campaign in 1997 (see video below) served as a rallying call to those who shared the brand’s values. Strong Brands Still Matter.

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Congratulations IndexTank!

K9 Ventures

Diego and I first met in 1997. he had to build his indexing technology to be able to update very quickly and filter out stale data very quickly. And so began Diego’s foray into search technology. IndexTank (@ IndexTank ) has been acquired by LinkedIn ! Diego had just started in the MSE program. Diego was smarter than me.

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Who’s Your Daddy? 5 Lessons from GoDaddy

Growthink Blog

The technology age has brought with it a long list of business related success stories. GoDaddy was created in 1997 as Jomax Technologies by Bob Parsons who had recently sold his other company, Parsons Technology Inc., There are plenty of cases where a small startup has managed to grow into a billion-dollar company.

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

Austin Startup

As I’ve mentioned in several Lucky7 posts before, we are living in the Golden Age of Technology ( here’s one of those posts ). It is a lot harder to get a valid interview of a candidate in a company significantly smaller/lower on the technology ladder than where the candidate is coming from. rather dramatically. We are glad we did.