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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight On IIT Kharagpur, India

ReadWriteStart

My 1997 recruitment visit met with tepid response, with the student body largely interested in multinational placements at the time. For the uninitiated, IIT KGP is considered one of the top technology schools in India, and it is located in the Eastern part of the country, not far from the city of Kolkata. Univect Education Solutions.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. In 1997, the year the Kauffman Report begins its analysis; there were 70 million users online globally. By the end of 2011 the Internet population was estimated at 2.3

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

This was borne out of my personal frustrations in scouring the internet and needing to stitch together my own half-baked solutions. Brands were no longer discovered in traditional media only; instead, consumers were discovering and embracing brands through cross-channel experiences in traditional media and searching online.

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The Ultimate CEO Twitter List

YoungUpstarts

timoreilly : Founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media Tim O’Reilly shares the stories of the alpha geeks on Twitter. dennysantoso : Founder and CEO if SixReps.com Danny Santoso tweets all about social fitness, fat loss, and nutrition. brian_wong : Follow Brian Wong, founder and CEO of Kipp, a rewards network for virtual achievements.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

At Blurb, we’ve built an Internet platform for people to produce their own bookstore-quality books. Despite the ongoing recession, I took to my kitchen table in 2013 to launch Digital Air Strike — an award-winning automotive social media and digital engagement company. That’s it. That’s what we do.

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Should You Get Rid of Your Website’s Lead Forms?

ConversionXL

True, some companies experimented with social media as a sales channel as well. The first wave of messaging software arrived with ICQ (launched in 1996), followed by AIM (1997), Yahoo! According to Mary Meeker’s 2016 Internet Trends Report , 6 of the world’s top 10 most used apps are messaging apps. Image Source.

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What Is It That You’re ALWAYS Selling?

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

You see, the line of thought started from a forum discussion where people were talking about the now famous Internet marketing ‘ 30 Day Challenge ‘ by Ed Dale. It’s this article by Tom Peters I read way back in 1997 that shifted a paradigm in my business thinking, and got me working on a strategy to brand myself.