Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2011

It was a sunny day in August 1999 (I remember that because I was living in Santa Monica, CA at the time and every day was sunny). back to August 1999. As I mentioned, my wife had been working in PR, and her efforts were getting her hotel in lots of magazines. Which led me to realize that I should also get PR.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

The video above shows Billie Holiday (one of my favorite singers) singing “Strange Fruit”, a song that Time manazine named, in 1999, the “song of the century” The song is a protest against racism. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 11, 2010

The CIC, founded in 1999, is located adjacent to MIT and has more than 100,000 sq ft of space for nearby startups that qualify to be housed there. By being in a facility like this you have a ready made peer group to ask about things like recruiting, technology, PR, venture capitalists or banks.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Before Roving Software could receive its first round of financing from professional investors, in early 1999, he had to put all the stock arrangements in writing. Learn how from the experts at PR Newswire. Parker, for example, often sealed his agreements with a handshake rather than on paper. Will yours be next? Send a Press Release.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

By 1999 we had grown into the largest independent consulting firm in the world. By 1999 it seemed like everybody was growing, though. I left Andersen Consulting in 1999 at the height of the market. Avoid the latest fads, trends or PR announcements. In other words, in a strong market even turkeys can fly.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 29, 2013

While controversial in 1999, DNS redirect-based services have become accepted across all ports and protocols. In their words, they wanted to “address inaccurate assertions that have been made” and “clear up these inaccuracies and misperceptions” The post, here ([link] followed the PR playbook to the letter.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

After AOL acquired Netscape in 1999, the browser wars ended and browser innovation stopped for many years. In fact, to a large extent Mike created the war by launching a withering PR attack that Microsoft couldn’t ignore. And we all would have paid many vigorishes in the meanwhile.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I was intrigued when digital photography started taking off, but I didn’t buy my first digital camera until 1999, when my daughter was born. The beauty of working in PR is that you get to learn how other companies and industries operate. My oldest son, Coby Joshua, was born with Down syndrome in 1999.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

When I was raising money for my first company we had closed a seed round in 1999 and were working on our A round. We had many term sheets (it was 1999 and we had a pulse) and we were deciding which one to take. It was December 1999. It was December 1999. Let me start with a story. They accepted my argument.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 17, 2022

When I started with SEO, believe it or not was in 1999 long time ago. So that could be PR, but a lot of it is just making sure that you're running a good business. It was just PR and community building, but we pitched a newspaper, you know, or we went out to a nonprofit agency and got them, you know, to partner.

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Diego Basch

JANUARY 16, 2012

Right off the bat, critical readers will see that one of their first articles is a PR piece for a sister portfolio company, Wealthfront. When I first sold some Inktomi stock in 1999, I immediately bought a copy of Burton Malkiel’s A Random Walk Down Wall Street. A quick Google search brings up Covestor and Collective2.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 30, 2022

When I started with SEO, believe it or not was in 1999, long time ago. So that could be PR, but a lot of it is just making sure that you're running a good business. It was just PR and community building, but we pitched a newspaper, you know, or we went out to a nonprofit agency and got them, you know, to partner what?

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

In 1999, Alibaba had to face many failures; for the first three years, the company made zero revenue. I have been running a PR Firm, Whitegate PRINC since 2007. Everyone always talks about Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but my vote goes to Jack Ma and his company Alibaba. Thanks to Ben Walker, Transcription Outsourcing ! #10-

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. So make sure you have a solid PR strategy. Understanding PR & Crisis Management. How to Work with PR Firms. Make sure good PR is underpinning your fund raising efforts. It’s human nature.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

In the summer of 1999, I started working on a startup from my college dorm. Id been on the internet since I was playing MUDs as a kid, but by 1999 I felt Id already missed the boat. You can even see the humiliating evidence of my smug incompetence in this absurd article from 1999.) I pretty much missed all the trends.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

The original company name was Scene on TV (going back to 1999), and I expanded into movies, and the name was also confusing to people (Scene instead of Seen). Working with my business partner and with my PR consultant, I first came up with the tag line, Motivate To Activate Your True Potential(tm).

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 16, 2012

Mobile app startups are failing like it’s 1999 – [link]. How These Small-Time Brands Made It Big – [link]. 7 Habits of Highly Effective Employees – [link]. Lean Marketing Tips: Public Relations & Focus – [link]. Want to Win The Competition For Customers? – [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2009

You think that anybody really believed 1999 that two young kids out of Stanford had a shot at unseating Yahoo!, I got my friends over at Lewis PR to give me an introduction to Ismael, who kindly invited me to present at the conference. Excite, Ask Jeeves and Lycos? Yeah, right.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 14, 2018

Back in 1999 I was trying to think of a clever way to use my name Ina(rhymes with Lena) on my AOL Instant Messenger screenname in college. My marketing/PR/design business is named Here Molly Girl. It’s simple and it is action oriented, which are two ways we like to convey it is to work with us – simple and action oriented.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Toyota's SM team / agency / PR entity continues to use Facebook to primarily pimp. B2B companies treat YouTube (and Facebook above, and three other Social Networks below) as their PR channel. And, just to show you that B2B companies, even esoteric ones, can do more than PR, here's FANUC America Corporation.

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