A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
OCTOBER 23, 2012
Freeloader — On $3m invested, sold for $38m in 1996 — shut down in 1997. If you know you’re building a flash-in-the-pan, like a cool mobile app, than that’s fun too of course! Support.com — On 2.5m invested, IPO’ed in 2000 for $32/share — stock price now $2.
crowdSPRING Blog
MARCH 5, 2013
Not surprisingly, Snapple declined to make a second attempt to break the official record, which had been set in Holland in 1997 by a 21-foot ice pop. One day shortly after the “signs” were placed, a Boston city worker noticed one of them on a highway on-ramp, complete with wires dangling and lights flashing.
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Hearpreneur
MARCH 2, 2018
It was released in 1997 and I’ve been listening to it ever since. It is as if I could see my whole entrepreneurial journey flash before my eyes. We knew that entrepreneurs have the best playlists and we decided to ask them their favourite tracks. #1- 1- Can’t Nobody Hold Me Down by Puff Daddy. Photo Credit: James Pollard.
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. This means it needs to be understated (no flashing animations). According to Zuckerman, the idea came to be when a major car company became concerned that its content was appearing on porn sites. A catchy image.
Pascal's View
NOVEMBER 14, 2009
capital markets for listed equities have been in systemic decline since 1997. China leads the world in IPO’s in 2009; it would be a serious mistake to dismiss this as a flash in the pan or a “casino” Risk capital will go where it is rewarded, and currently that is not in the United States.
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. One of the bright flashing warning signs that a VC will be a weak board member is when that person says, “We VCs are pattern matchers.”
ConversionXL
MAY 31, 2017
Flash forward to today, and the rise of messaging has disrupted that old communication paradigm. The first wave of messaging software arrived with ICQ (launched in 1996), followed by AIM (1997), Yahoo! True, some companies experimented with social media as a sales channel as well. It’s been around since the mid-1990s.
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