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30 Entrepreneur Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

11- By identifying customers demand. I came up with my business name by identifying what our customers fundamentally and uniquely demanded from our Agency at a core value level. My wife and I co-founded our Web development and digital marketing agency atCommunications, LLC in 1999. Photo Credit: Mark Holmes.

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How 99Designs.com came to be

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

He figured out quickly that there was a demand for printed tutorials. For $35, people can get a printed copy of a tutorial so that they can use while creating a website. He said they found some sh*ty online print on demand service who could take credit cards and went from there. All of them for free. Today, SitePoint gets 2.5M

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

In places where international diplomacy had failed, citizens around the world found their individual and collective voices to topple dictatorships and demand better lives for themselves and future generations. What comes next remains to be seen but these revolutions even empowered individuals not touched directly by the uprisings.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities. Popular categories include web developers, mobile developers, designers, writers, and accountants. In the 12 months ended June 30, 2018, the Upwork platform enabled $1.56

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Unfortunately after twenty years working such demanding jobs I was no longer able to physically do the work. My firm, atCommunications, LLC—a Chicago-based Web development and digital marketing agency—is this year celebrating its 20th year in business! Photo Credit: Sean Matula. Photo Credit: Terry Kasdan.

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Guide to Website Navigation Design Patterns

sixrevisions.com

They can be used to display a large number of links on demand without cluttering up the web page. For years web sites were happily left hand navigation — and then blogs happened. From Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox, November 14, 1999: [link]. Web Applications. Web Design. Web Development.

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