David Teten

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Michael Smith, leader of the Social Innovation team at the Case Foundation , introduced the Foundation as a non-profit started in 1997 by Steve Case (AOL co-founder) and his wife, Jean Case. Case Foundation didn’t have a website until 2005, although founded 1997. Our customer is ultimately the startup. 3 specific issues: 1.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2012

By 1997 E.piphany was a fast growing startup with customers, revenue and something approaching a repeatable business model. 1997 was also that year that Microsoft was in the middle of the browser wars with Netscape. 1997 was also that year that Microsoft was in the middle of the browser wars with Netscape. Explorer logo.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 19, 2014

GoDaddy was created in 1997 as Jomax Technologies by Bob Parsons who had recently sold his other company, Parsons Technology Inc., What it has managed to do is take something which is ordinarily very technical, in this case domain registrations, and make it appeal to a wide range of customers.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Paulina Cabrera, Operation Coordinator for Solar Winds and Latinitas Volunteer Paulina Cabrera Paulina Cabrera grew up in Arlington, TX, but had the wonderful experience of living in Neiva, Colombia from 1997 to 2000. Paulina continued her studies in graduate school to focus on game production. After graduating, she came back to Texas?

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2019

We believe in the emotional connection between the consumer and our products. 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. They make our high standard of living possible with their products and services. Photo Credit: Aaron Steed.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 8, 2015

Rather, effective marketing begins with deep customer insights that translate into a great brand idea that is media-agnostic. While there has been a greater cynicism of big brands in the Western worlds, strong brands still continue to outperform the stock market, draw loyal customers, charge higher prices, and save on media spending.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. In addition to FOMO it is partly driven by massive increase in valuations for earlier-stage companies who raised money at bit seed prices but who still have product risk.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 6, 2018

Designers” in innovation and R&D roles are too focused on user testing and surveys to create product or services. As Jeff Bezos stated in a 2017 statement to shareholders, “… customers are always beautifully, wonderfully dissatisfied.” He goes on to say, “Good inventors and designers deeply understand their customers.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 9, 2019

After many years of giving up when things went south in the business, or blaming industry shifts, the one thing that has helped me boost my motivation as an entrepreneur, is to take a break from the routine sometimes and talk to some of your past customers. What motivates me the most is productivity. I didn’t have a choice.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 29, 2018

For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself. DFS was formed in 1997 to provide Dell customers the best financing options.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

SneakerLabs’ first product was a Java-based chat server and client. One of our first customers was a stock trading company in NY that wanted to host live stock chats. Another customer was my alma mater, Carnegie Mellon University, who was using it to host online class discussions for its distance education program. Not so fast.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 30, 2010

From the mid 1980s to the mid 1990s, Apple was a niche company with many product failures and a poorly defined vision. The transformation that turned Apple from a niche player into an industry giant started when Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997. Others present products as stories. Some leverage an effective tagline.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

If they put a guarantee on their dishwashers and showed an idle Maytag repairman on TV (if you don’t recall, he was idle because the Maytag products never needed to be repaired), people would buy more. Industry Week’s Feb 11th, 2006 article reported Maytag’s “quality nightmare” with it’s Neptune washing machine back in 1997.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 10, 2017

In the years since, with massive customer launches like Snapchat and the Weather Channel, the horizontal scale of Mapbox’s platform is now much more obvious. Back in 1997, Softbank Technology Ventures (which became Mobius Venture Capital) was the first VC fund I helped raise.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 4, 2012

By 1997, when I started investing as a venture capital investor, I was no longer reading business plans. Rather than write long exhaustive documents, entrepreneurs can rapidly prototype their product and get immediate user and market feedback. In the 1990s, business plan competitions were all the rage. Related articles.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Describing your product as “new and “never been done before” instead of “we’re just like those others guys, but better” could cost your company billions. Soon, RIM was focusing on making products for people on the move, using wireless communication and digital data. In 1997, RIM introduced the first packet-switched messaging device.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Freeloader — On $3m invested, sold for $38m in 1996 — shut down in 1997. Like GroupOn, with a product that everyone agreed was brilliant, spawning 1,000 copy-cats. GroupOn’s engine that turned capital into revenue growth was a form of force-feeding rather than building a product). Support.com — On 2.5m

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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. Jim Hornthal splits his time between venture capital, entrepreneurship and education. And Zignal Labs. Jim co-taught classes with me at U.C.

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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. About 10 years ago they saw the customers were struggling with these packages. Roger Dooley: Right.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

But in today’s world, speed-to-scale entrepreneurship is what we need to improve society, transform industries, and create massive value for customers, employees, and investors. Customers value and benefit from the convenience, price, and selection of Amazon, which is why the company is, by a wide margin, America’s largest bookseller.

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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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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Since 1997, women-owned businesses rose by 68 percent. None of us gets far at all if we don’t care about our customers. Give them the best exchange possible for their money; define expectations so that they understand the end product you are delivering and for which they are paying. That’s up from 602 in 2011-12.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Back in 1997, Randy Parker was staring at a blank whiteboard, wondering where hed find the money to hire the employees and consultants he needed to build his new product. "We Get and keep customers with affordable online marketing tools. Why customers watch videos. Be Connected & Productive Anywhere, Any Time.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2019

A sustaining innovation improves existing products. A sustaining innovation targets demanding, high-end customers with better performance than what was previously available. Other sustaining innovations are breakthrough, leapfrog-beyond-the-competition products. But the real innovation was making downloading digital music easy.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 1, 2017

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. Localisation, or l10n, is the process of adapting a global product or content to a specific local market. Localisation shows you care.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 16, 2016

It might be the products or the customers they deal with, or it could even be the fact that they are the ones in charge of it all. Small business live and die by great customer service and great marketing. My goal is to add positivity to my customer’s day. In 1997 we were IT consultants.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 26, 2011

Since 1997, he has led an independent consulting practice focused on helping businesses of all sizes elevate performance and achieve healthy growth. Unfortunately, a lot of passionate founders get so wrapped up in their products and services that they lose sight of what customers actually want, and why.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

We want this product, and we don’t want it at the expense of some one else. Certification began in 1997, as a concrete way to ensure that a fair trade certified (FTC) label on a product meant that a series of milestones had been met, and a socially conscious consumer could rest easy with their purchase.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Some offer amazing customer service, others enviable showrooms, and all of them a truly unique shopping experience that no e-commerce site could ever match. Whether you love Apple or hate it, you can’t deny they’ve designed more than a place to sell products with their stores worldwide. What makes Wegmans so great? Whole Foods.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 3, 2012

Because their strategy targets customers who are willing to assemble furniture themselves (relatively easily) in order to save a bundle. Examples are Charles Schwab allowing people to trade stocks online by themselves in 1997, and Craigslist making life difficult for print classifieds salespeople. Ever walked through an IKEA store?

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Up and Running

APRIL 5, 2021

By 1997, the pop-up plague had spread to sites across the net, including Geocities, AOL, and The New York Times. It is primarily used to encourage users to subscribe to newsletters or purchase one of the site’s products. The product is important but users are : 11.9% Should you use website pop-ups?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

I have long advised startup companies that if you don’t control your messaging somebody else will and your potential customers will form impressions of you shaped by somebody else or by nobody at all. In 1997 I was sent to England to work on a project for the oil company Halliburton. I have published many of these PR Tips before.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Your clients & customers are your real bosses. The reality is that your customer is your boss. While you may be in charge of your own company, your success is still down to whether or not your customers/clients want what you have. However, it ultimately failed because it did not meet their customers’ needs.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 13, 2012

A brand is the sum total of the experiences your customers and potential customers have with your company. Your brand lives in everyday interactions with your customers, the images you share, the messages you post on your website, the content of your marketing materials, and in your posts on social networks. This is a mistake.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2016

Hillary has been working to make government more accessible and available online for nearly two decades, starting as a web designer for Arkansas.gov in 1997. Agencies approach us with an idea, with, perhaps, a product or a project that they’ve been kind of stewing on internally or maybe it’s just a big outside-of-the-box thing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

The truth is that in my experience very, very few people really enjoy the “pure&# startup environment: months with no salary, months with no live product and lots of trial, error & rejection. Mostly you read about fundings, product releases, big valuations, and M&A. of your product. Great new product release.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 26, 2017

A sustaining innovation improves existing products. Scholar and innovation expert Clayton Christensen explains it this way: A sustaining innovation targets demanding, high-end customers with better performance than what was previously available. Other sustaining innovations are breakthrough, leapfrog-beyond-the-competition products.

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