Steve Blank
JANUARY 21, 2013
Jim has founded six companies, including Preview Travel, one of the first online travel agencies, which went public in 1997 and subsequently merged to create Travelocity.com as an independent company. Align and train mentors to embrace customer development. Today he is the co-founder and Chairman of Triporati, LaunchPad Central.
Seeing Both Sides
SEPTEMBER 5, 2012
The theory is that with the advent of the cloud in the digital age, small businesses can leverage a suite of services from a technology vendor to manage all aspects of their work – from payments to record-keeping to marketing to customer communications. The company was originally founded in 1997 by Jonathan Bush (1st cousin of George W.)
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Duct Tape Marketing
APRIL 30, 2019
Back in 1997, Jeff Bezos was talking about frictionless shopping when most companies were just thinking about getting serious about being online. About 10 years ago they saw the customers were struggling with these packages. Well, many times customers can’t articulate that there is a problem. Even things like packaging.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they’re sitting on a gold mine. In 1997, the year the Kauffman Report begins its analysis; there were 70 million users online globally.
Reid Hoffman
JANUARY 19, 2021
For example, in 1997, I had not realized that you need to invent and reinvent your go to market strategy together with your product idea. You have now created substantial value which makes the company important to its ecosystem (including your customers), while your employees are significantly motivated by that asset value.
www.igda.org
JULY 24, 2012
While this is indeed the metric that matters most to shareholders, its not terribly useful as a measure of productivity, especially daily or hourly productivity. Overall, most companies seem to have fallen to a least-common-denominator measure of team output. Either the game ships and sells — or it doesnt.
ConversionXL
AUGUST 27, 2021
Netflix began in 1997 as a video rental competitor to Blockbuster. Today, the platform remains the most popular of all global streaming services—and its customers continue to renew their subscription, month after month and year after year. They then delivered a customized homepage based on those answers. Source: Wired.
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