The Next Web

JANUARY 28, 2018

On August 11, 1994, the first ever ecommerce transaction occurred when a 21-year-old in New Hampshire named Dan Kohn sold a copy of Sting’s Ten Summoner’s Tales to a friend in Philadelphia who paid $12.48 Though Kohn and Sting got the party started, the age of ecommerce didn’t truly begin in earnest until 1997. by credit card.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 19, 2014

What started as a small company has since grown into an easily recognizable brand which owns a significant portion of its own market. GoDaddy was created in 1997 as Jomax Technologies by Bob Parsons who had recently sold his other company, Parsons Technology Inc., Dust off your branding and marketing plan and review it.

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Technical Review Private Equity Hosting Advertising 104

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

I can remember when creating a web site for eCommerce could easily require a million dollar investment. The world is a now single market, both homogeneous and heterogeneous. According to Fox Business , women-owned businesses have increased 68% since 1997, running more than 9.1 Cost of entry for a startup is at an all-time low.

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IPO Angel Investor Startup Incubator 120

Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

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. CRMs / marketing tech generally work.

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Asia Indonesia B2B Singapore 48

Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

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. CRMs / marketing tech generally work.

Asia 48

Asia Indonesia B2B Singapore 48

Up and Running

APRIL 5, 2021

Have you ever wanted to set a room of marketers into a blazing argument? It is difficult for marketers to square vocal user dissent with positive data and the reason lies in the troubled history of pop-ups. As commerce rose with the web — so did the associated marketing. It’s easy, just ask them whether pop-up ads work.

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Customer Lead Generation Flash Conversion 96

ConversionXL

JANUARY 7, 2015

Back in 1997, the Nielsen Norman Group conducted the first study to determine how users read on the web. They found that by making the copy more scannable, concise and devoid of marketing hype, usability increased by 124%. In their words, “They don’t.” Measured usability of improved web copy from Nielsen Norman Group study.

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Iowa Conversion Audience Architecture 48