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

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Fewer US startups now than in 1999. Social media “war rooms” strike me as 90% gimmick, 10% value - crowdspring.co/1hZ05KD. LinkedIn - crowdspring.co/H47RXx.

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My Top 10 for 2018

Start Up Blog

In this book Anand explains from the inside how the emergent global elite pretend to try to ‘change the world for the better’, but in doing so really just obfuscate their desire to preserve the status quo and their role in causing the problems they pretend to try and solve. Yes, it will come back even stronger.

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

thebarefootvc

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. As of year-end, Foursquare had over 15 million users, with an exponential growth rate globally.

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Service Exports - Driving U.S. Startups and Small Businesses

Growthink Blog

By way of anecdote, from the time Dave Lavinsky and I founded Growthink in 1999 through 2008, more than 95% of our firm’s clients and investors were U.S. Since the great “financial crisis” of 2008-2009, the firm’s clientele – really without us even trying – has becoming increasingly global. Global Best Practices. And with U.S.

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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

Gust

And in January I saw that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. I bought the Rocket eBook Reader in 1999. Last weekend I caught Mashable announcing that Ebook Sales Surpass Hardcover in the U.S. In both cases what surprises me is not that it happened, but how long it took.

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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

Feld Thoughts

For many years preceding 1999, the 1982 vintage was known as the industry’s worst vintage year. Many of the industry funds were wildly successful (in sectors such as media communications, health care, consumer, etc.), JMB Realty: Real Estate Management company.

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Stop Thinking And Acting Local: Small Businesses Seeking Growth Should See Themselves As Global Enterprises

YoungUpstarts

Overcoming Challenges of Growing Globally. But going global can be an intimidating prospect for some. Parallel to this, social media has grown as well, allowing businesses from anywhere in the world to market to anyone,” he says. 1 Bill Gates, Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy, March 24, 1999.

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