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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Marvel’s fascinating turnaround story is no less than a heroic action story where the protagonist flips the scales at the last moment and arises like the phoenix, just like the many superheroes it helped become household names. Netflix was founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph to combat late fees for video rentals.

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True Story: How Bplans.com Started in 1995

Up and Running

I hope you’ve noticed big changes at bplans.com lately: more information, more tutorials, and better organized, making what you’re looking for easier to find. I immediately registered a few obvious domain names. From the beginning, bplans.com was always intended to be a resource site, offering free information. I was hooked.

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7 Compelling Reasons Why You Should Redesign Your Small Business Website

crowdSPRING Blog

Many small businesses assume that brands start and end with their business name and logo, and overlook all of the other important marketing content that is a part of any substantial branding effort. Another example of misguided site design is ones that prioritize company information over the products or services you sell.

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Who’s Your Daddy? 5 Lessons from GoDaddy

Growthink Blog

GoDaddy was created in 1997 as Jomax Technologies by Bob Parsons who had recently sold his other company, Parsons Technology Inc., At the time, a company called Network Solutions was essentially the only place from which people could register domain names. That changed in 2001, however, and GoDaddy.com quickly grew.

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How AI And Big Data Are Changing Century-Old Media Companies

YoungUpstarts

It has stood behind its paywall since 1997, trusting that customers interested in its content would pay upwards of $200 a year for it. The prediction model gives the website’s sales and marketing teams information they can use to target different groups of registered users with different digital subscription packages.

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[Review] Twitter Is Not A Strategy

YoungUpstarts

A case in point is Apple, whose “Think Different” campaign in 1997 (see video below) served as a rallying call to those who shared the brand’s values. This mission transcends advertising and is experienced by how every piece of information generated by an online search is “associated with the warm glow of Google”.

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Why Search Is Hard

Diego Basch

There was one time when building a decent search engine was relatively simple: crawl a few million pages (in 1997, that would have included pretty much every interesting web page out there). How much information do I have so far? The web is only a small fraction of your information needs. Google knows who you are.

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