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How 99Designs.com came to be

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

Initial team members of founding team should be 4-5 people – 2 developers, 1 designer, 1 product manager, and maybe 1 marketing person. This is probably one of the first times that I’ve heard product manager and marketing person at the very beginning.

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

Let’s not let startups use this as an escape hatch to avoid customer development. Almost all Web startups are dominated by market risk. Even startups that are dominated by technical risk have the customer validation risk of finding positive ROI distribution in a large market. Back in 1999, it all ended very bad.

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

thebarefootvc

People also shared labor and skills in greater numbers: sites such as TaskRabbit , Solvate and Zaarly offer marketplaces for errands and tasks ranging from standing in line for the next iPhone, to grocery shopping, to website development. What’s Next in 2012…. In the West, we have been living in relative prosperity for decades.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities.

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

My firm, atCommunications, LLC—a Chicago-based Web development and digital marketing agency—is this year celebrating its 20th year in business! Since both sets of my parents went through bankruptcy while I was a child, learning about how to manage money became almost an obsession of mine. Photo Credit: Terry Kasdan.

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Episode 106: Implementing Profit First With Frank DeBenedetto and Ralph M. Rivera

Mike Michalowicz

Too add, by implementing Profit First, within the first two weeks of starting the business, the company took their first distribution check! My passion is building and marketing web products for niche audiences. In 1999 my wife Carol Lynn and I founded Rahvalor Interactive, a creative marketing services company. Our Guests.