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The next phase of innovation

Start Up Blog

If we can agree on these truths and what innovation is, then we can usher in a long over due, different type of innovation. But before we explore the next phase of innovation, it’s worth reviewing the phase we are currently in. Only one of which, was on the list in 1999 – that being Microsoft.

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Start-ups are all Naked in the Mirror

Both Sides of the Table

I started my first company in 1999 in London at the height of the dot com craze. We went through the euphoria of massive exposure at the time of our launch due to an article that ran in the Financial Times. Our software wasn’t fully baked. We had one of the largest US software companies talk about buying us.

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Why Content Personalization Is Not Web Personalization (and What to Do About It)

ConversionXL

In 1999, David Weinberger, a technologist and co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto , wrote, “Personalization: the automatic tailoring of sites and messages to the individuals viewing them so that we can feel that somewhere there’s a piece of software that loves us for who we are.” Show reviews of those products.

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Bazaarvoice Launches Social Commerce Insights

Austin Startup

I founded Coremetrics in 1999 to bring accountability and insight into the emerging world of eCommerce, and Bazaarvoice was built from the ground up to offer the most robust analytics capabilities available in the social commerce arena,” said Brett Hurt, founder and CEO of Bazaarvoice.

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Twitter Link Roundup #199 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

You Can’t Be a Wimp—Make the Tough Calls | Harvard Business Review – crowdspring.co/H4gLnT. Fewer US startups now than in 1999. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. 50 of the Best Ecommerce Websites | Vandelay Design Blog - crowdspring.co/H1xIPZ.

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How Your Customers Actually Read Your Emails

ConversionXL

No matter whether you run a blog, a SaaS business, an eCommerce store or any other company that sends emails you will be able to learn something from the tips below and apply them to your own email marketing strategies! Subject line like it’s 1999! Chris Hexton is a co-founder of email remarketing software Vero.

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28 Entrepreneurs Discuss Why they Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

In January of 1999, I co-founded a marketing agency with a former boss. I was a professional dancer, choreographer, dance teacher and studio co-owner when I became disabled due to disastrous back surgery followed by a car accident making the situation worse. Thanks to Mike Samson, crowdSPRING. #3 3 – I was Fired Twice.