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30 Entrepreneur Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

The management team of one of the companies sat down for a brainstorming session. Enventys Partners was born when my company Command Partners, a digital marketing firm, vertically merged with Enventys, a product development firm. My wife and I co-founded our Web development and digital marketing agency atCommunications, LLC in 1999.

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Customer Data Platforms: The Next Big Shift in SaaS Marketing Stacks?

ConversionXL

As we collect more and more data, it’s becoming increasingly hard to piece together and manage that data, and more importantly, to use that data in real-time to build better campaigns. Contact Management: The Beginning. launched a contact management software. Data Management Platform ∩ Marketing automation capabilities.

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Best of Breed

thebarefootvc

These vertical solutions would focus on specific pain pain points in the enterprise, such as logistics or customer relationship management. Whereas I may have seen a dozen companies in 1999 with a point solution in a particular area, now I see multiples.

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In Spite of Avatar, The Movie Business is Dead

Growthink Blog

Get The Answers I am very excited to share with you the opportunity to meet the Managing Director of Growthink's new media and entertainment practice, Mr. Lee Muhl. In 1999, Lee joined the Silicon Valley new media content contingent as an Internet-company CEO, and has since founded two innovative Los Angeles media companies.

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

Back in 1999, it all ended very bad. Reply Eran Shir , on November 21, 2009 at 9:35 pm Said: Steve, a great post is judged by the level of discussion it manages to spur, so in that metric, this is a fantastic one.

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Meet Our Newest Portfolio Company, Airbnb

Ben's Blog

I joined eBay in 1999, early in its life, and had the privilege of witnessing and contributing to the development of one of the most iconic e-commerce businesses. Platforms upon which their community of users continually expands into new verticals. And they have been ably managing the operations amidst simply explosive growth.

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Customer Development Manifesto: Market Type (part 4) « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Handspring in a Existing Market As an example, imagine it’s October 1999 and you are Donna Dubinsky the CEO of a feisty new startup, Handspring, entering the billion dollar Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) market. Other companies in the 1999 PDA market were Palm, the original innovator, as well Microsoft and Hewlett Packard.