YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 8, 2015

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. The creative use of media, be it mass-media, social media, out-of-home or mobile. Craft An Engagement Plan.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2019

It has stood behind its paywall since 1997, trusting that customers interested in its content would pay upwards of $200 a year for it. Over his career, he has managed digital advertising for hundreds of television stations and their websites, mobile apps, and connected platforms.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2019

in 2016, as an advanced e-mobility and automotive technology company with the mission to develop world-class, emotionally-compelling vehicles featuring the most forward-thinking automotive technologies in existence. My startup actually started in 2012 when I was creating another business – a mobile wine club app.

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SiliconHills

MARCH 23, 2017

Fanatic Software, founded in 1997, develops mobile and Mac applications. Fanatic Software, based in Cedar Park, now belongs to Complete XRM. The Salt Lake City-based Complete XRM did not disclose the financial terms of the deal. Its flagship product is the Pocket Informant Mac, iOS and Android productivity apps.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 22, 2018

In 2007 Apple launched the iPhone and revolutionized the mobile phone industry. Lipitor (1997). So, set your business’s next product design on the path to profitability with the valuable lessons from these 5 positively staggering successful products. iPhone (2007). Image courtesy of MacWorld. Image courtesy of The Daily Beast.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 10, 2017

When we led Eric’s first financing — a $10 million round and the first capital into the bootstrapped team — we believed mobile location and mapping would be big. Back in 1997, Softbank Technology Ventures (which became Mobius Venture Capital) was the first VC fund I helped raise.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Witness, for example, this terrific Fast Company article on Bill Nguyen , serial entrepreneur who’s seventh startup “Color” famously raised $41m for a new mobile app before it even launched. They said I don’t understand mobile. Freeloader — On $3m invested, sold for $38m in 1996 — shut down in 1997.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 31, 2014

The prior fund that I had co-founded – Mobius Venture Capital – had blown up after having a very successful first fund in 1997. I remember a meeting with the Microsoft Mobile 6.0 team as they were pitching us their vision for Microsoft Mobile 6.5. A year or two later they had less than 3% market share on mobile.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

This probably wasn’t a fun period of time for a new VC but nonetheless probably made Mike stronger than having started in 1997. Developer and publisher of social mobile games. SGN games downloaded +17mm times on mobile devices. This lasted from about 2001-2004. Read more: TechCrunch. Competitors: Zynga , Playdom , Boonty.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Christopher Fralic is a Managing Partner at First Round Capital’s New York office, and has focused on a number of the firm’s investments in Advertising Technology, Social Media, Ecommerce, Gaming, Mobile and more. In 1997, Mr. Yavonditte joined Juno Online Services, Inc. as a director in their business development group.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

In 1997, the year the Kauffman Report begins its analysis; there were 70 million users online globally. hours per day on average, and that’s excluding the other 13 hours a day where we have our mobile devices, our connected TVs, our iPads and Kindles and soon our cars connected to the web. Mobility really changes everything.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 2, 2015

When I started making venture capital investments in 1997, the pace of things, and the amount of work I did, was massive. By 1987 I was regularly using faxes and Federal Express (the only overnight mail I was aware of), but a mobile phone and email didn’t really show up until around 1993 for me. The name kind of says it all.

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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 Fonality HUD Mobile. Randy Parker Chip Morse Thomas Durkin Constant Contact Inc. Science and Technology Technology. Related Tools Annual Meeting Checklist.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2012

My 1997 recruitment visit met with tepid response, with the student body largely interested in multinational placements at the time. Optimum Mobility Services. 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.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

In 1997, RIM introduced the first packet-switched messaging device. While phrases like “mobile email and packet switching” didn’t mean a thing to RIM’s first customers, the “interactive pager” positioning proved important in attracting early adopters. In a major strategy shift, they decided to sell a product directly to businesses.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Publishers and authors (like O’Reilly and us) also benefit from Amazon’s success.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2016

We give out between $2 and $3 billion a year for these startups as 5,000 and 7,000 grants to small businesses doing everything from advance composite materials, space exploration, to IT, mobile security, you name it. The goal is help these companies take their tech. …It It is money extremely well spent.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

In 1997, a Charles River Ventures fund yielded a stunning 15x return, backing such superstars as Ciena, Vignette and Flycast. The average venture capital fund raised between 1995 and 1997 returned more than 50% per year. They are gobbling up mobile devices, PCs, routers and other technology gear at a rapid rate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

The elements include communications, mobile platforms, and location-based services. According to Fox Business , women-owned businesses have increased 68% since 1997, running more than 9.1 Large corporations have lost their ability to innovate. Most now routinely buy startups for new technology and new products.

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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.

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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.

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

capital markets for listed equities have been in systemic decline since 1997. Innovation is global, and risk capital is mobile. The Grant Thornton report’s greatest value is in its thorough analysis, as it proves without a doubt that the U.S. This condition is clearly not the result of the technology bubble or Sarbanes Oxley.

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blog.teamtreehouse.com

DECEMBER 5, 2012

CSS frameworks have gone responsive, squeezing content into a spectrum of desktop and mobile browsers with varying degrees of success. They also have varying definitions of “mobile,” which I found while reviewing 15 responsive grid systems. Every framework I tried claimed to be mobile-friendly, or at least responsive.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

Extremely-Sharp.com originally started with a few retail locations in 1997, and we quickly started the e-commerce site the next year. With the recent wave of on-demand offerings from taxi cabs to mobile dry cleaning, consumers have started to rethink the way they book and buy products and services. 16) Bring Change. 18) Better Person.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

That''s a 6% annual increase since 1997 when I started and it was $16,000 a year. Mobile Distraction. I just looked up how much my alma mater costs in tuition. Fordham University, the 56th best college in the country, is now $44,000 a year. Look around the next time you go into a restaurant.

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ConversionXL

MAY 31, 2017

The first wave of messaging software arrived with ICQ (launched in 1996), followed by AIM (1997), Yahoo! As Chris Willis, CMO at Perfecto Mobile, recently told us in an interview : Chris Willis: “Leads that come in through chat tend to have a higher velocity. Perfecto Mobile’s “contact us” page.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 21, 2016

Thanks to Nick Howell, ATLAS Mobile Technologies. #9 said Steve Jobs when he returned to Apple in 1997. Also, as we know last few years mobile search has overtaken desktop and that’s the reason we have spent a lot of time to improve the mobile user-experience as well. 9 – Right Decisions. And he did.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2010

The Outer Limits of Lunar Exploration Hilton F – Space sector representatives will discuss how the use of web and mobile technologies create opportunities for participation in future exploration of the Moon. Adobe product managers and evangelists will be sharing the latest on mobile development with Flash and more from Adobe Labs.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

In 1997 the Nielsen Norman Group revealed that 79% of users they tested scanned web pages rather than reading them. I can imagine myself holding a new iPhone and playing mobile games on a crystal clear screen. This first tip is important. People are busy. They lead fast-paced lives. And, a million things are vying for their attention.

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Barrett said hes seen apps become smaller, simpler, and more streamlined - perhaps to be more mobile browser-friendly. Simplicity is key so that the design can either work on both web and mobile devices or at least be consistent with the simple design of the mobile version." An animated section of Vimeo.com.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Warren Buffet, 1997. If you download their mobile app, Krispy Kreme will give you a free doughnut , McDonald’s will give you a free large fries , and Baskin-Robbins will give you a free scoop of ice cream. “As they say in poker, ‘If you’ve been in the game 30 minutes and you don’t know who the patsy is, you’re the patsy.‘”

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 12, 2012

Since its founding by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1997, Google has grown from a simple search engine to the huge Internet giant it is today. In fact, Google owns so many web assets that many would argue the company is on the path to dominating the online world, challenged only by the might – and popularity – of Facebook.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Video will be inextricably linked to the future of the Internet and consumption between PCs, mobile devices and TVs will merge. Just as in the mobile battle when Apple goes closed it creates an opportunity for somebody that is substantively open. Imagine how much mobile telco money still exists in meat & potatoes.

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