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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

As a reminder, the Dot Com bubble was a five-year period from August 1995 (the Netscape IPO ) when there was a massive wave of experiments on the then-new internet, in commerce, entertainment, nascent social media, and search. Startups with huge burn rates – building leases, staff, PR and advertising – ran out of money.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Did Prior to Starting Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

Thanks to Tom La Vecchia, X Factor Media ! #2 2 – Advertising Agency & Boutique PR and Advertising Agencies. Prior to starting my own public relations and marketing consultancy, I worked for one of the largest global advertising agencies as well as smaller boutique PR and advertising agencies.

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Publicity Stunts: When Good Ideas Go Bad

crowdSPRING Blog

But for every successful PR stunt that is launched by a wide-eyed marketing team, there are dozens of unsuccessful efforts littering the road. Here are 5 legendary examples of PR efforts gone horribly, terrible, awfully wrong. PR Destroyed It. fail has never had better friends than these! We Built This City.

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Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouhi

SoCal CTO

I hadn't talked to her in a while and then because of a presentation I did around Social Media for Service Professionals she and I reconnected. We downsized from 35 people in 2001 and are now a size that allows us to work directly with clients. I'd be curious what you are doing with social media for a logistics company.

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Episode 1: Business Loans, Website Tips, and the Apple Watch – The Bcast

Up and Running

Also think about, Jonathan, you manage our social media presence among other things and so you understand more than ever it’s really about getting those specific posts out to people through those channels, through email and that’s very much the same thing. John: PR wants some event calendar.

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

I came up with my business name, Kate’s Theatrics at about 9pm April 14, 2001. On the way north from the Chicago suburbs to Wisconsin, I thought it would be a great idea to have my own PR firm. I constantly — I mean constantly — use the word Epic in conversations and social media postings.

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“AirB&E” and Disaster Response for Consumer Startups

Gust

Amid the remembrance of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks this past weekend, much was made of the voluminous 9/11 Commission report, which described in excruciating detail countless ways in which the United States homeland security and emergency response infrastructure failed to respond adequately to a disaster of unprecedented proportions.

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