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5 Most Successful Products Ever and What Small Businesses Can Learn From Them

crowdSPRING Blog

The iPhone integrated phone, camera, music player and internet access all into one device – and it did it well. A market for how-to guides emerged, and Cube-­related books soared to the top of best-seller lists. Lipitor (1997). Mario first jumped into the global spotlight in 1985. Image courtesy of The Daily Beast.

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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. I had a strong desire to create a global business that would serve customers across the world and give me the opportunity to work with teams across geographies. 4- Started as a part-time work.

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

Reid Hoffman

Tim O’Reilly’s recent article, “ The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy ,” makes an impassioned argument that the ideas in our book, Blitzscaling , encourage entrepreneurs to behave in ways that are irresponsible or even dangerous in the pursuit of what he characterizes as “runaway growth.”

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Why You Should Use Localisation in a Globalised World

The Startup Magazine

Sushi – a food that has reached its tentacles around the world and is now served in over 20,000 restaurants outside Japan, can be considered a truly successful global product. The advent of the Internet means that geographical and social boundaries no longer inhibit business and we are now living in an era of interconnection.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

In 1997, the year the Kauffman Report begins its analysis; there were 70 million users online globally. By the end of 2011 the Internet population was estimated at 2.3 billion, with 275 million in North America alone (source: Internet World Stats) and an astounding global penetration of 33% of the world’s population.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

We are unbelievably lucky to be here right now, with a team of über-talented people from the best and brightest Silicon Valley companies, at a moment when what a book should be is morphing before our very eyes. At Blurb, we’ve built an Internet platform for people to produce their own bookstore-quality books.

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The Ultimate CEO Twitter List

YoungUpstarts

FuelOnline : Fuel CEO Scott Levy has been working in social media and SEO since 1997. PaulKirchoff : CEO of SaleAMP Paul Kirchoff tweets about performance Internet marketing. brookeburke : CEO of Modern Mom CEO Brooke Burke shares updates from Dancing with the Stars, her book, and her role as a mom.

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