abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

The company, which the founder cleverly named “Stitch Fix,” had a remarkably unique offering compared to other women’s fashion experiences. Customers are first asked to fill out an in depth profile to help identify their size, style, and preferences.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2012

Then again, there’s Michael Dell, a dropout who, after being funded to the tune of $300,000 by his understanding and investment-minded parents, threw everything he had into a business he’d begun in his dorm room, selling computers he’d built from stock parts. The first name they came up with for the new magazine was Facts. project.

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Up and Running

APRIL 4, 2014

Well, for one thing, the name. Ford’s advertising agency—Foote, Cone & Belding—solicited its employees to suggest names for the new car, offering the winner a car of their own as the prize. Of the 18,000 names that poured in, the company whittled the list down to ten prospects. By 2002, New Coke was dead.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 8, 2014

They’re a camera company that got started in 2002. To cater to a unicycle hockey player’s needs, Unicycle.com, headquartered in the UK, has decided to stock ice-hockey sticks. Most were plastic, or they were made using boring wood, or they were poorly shaped, poorly finished, you name it. Very clever. Ever heard of GoPro?

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Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

2000: Regulation FD was passed to create a “level playing field”, reacting against whisper numbers, favored research analysts, and the “hedge fund information advantage”—all in the name of giving everyone simultaneous access to the same corporate disclosures—which absolutely did not happen. cents or 6.25 cents or 6.25

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 13, 2020

People of the Tankawa Tribe called this area home long before names like (Stephen F.) And, in 2002, when Richard Florida published “Rise of the Creative Class,” Austin was a city that outperformed similar sized cities in large part due to droves of creative professionals wanting to live here. We show up.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Past (1985-2002). There were chat rooms, discussion groups, dating, classified ads – you name it. Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king. What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? Social Networks: Past, Present & Future.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 26, 2020

The name of the last part? First, just to provide a foundation here, Bazaarvoice was named after Chapter 4 of “The Cluetrain Manifesto” (available for free online), “ Markets Are Conversations ”. And the Blockbuster name became synonymous with late fees. Blockbuster’s stock rose from a low of around $3.8/share

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David Teten

MARCH 24, 2014

Chernick : However, it should be noted that some outstanding asset allocators, just like some outstanding stock pickers, do beat the odds and indices. We over-weighted small cap value stocks in 1998-2002. We know that we at Koffler have added value, and where we add value, because we measure it.

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BeyondVC

OCTOBER 10, 2003

Do you remember the name Jonathan Cohen? Jonathan, who was negative on Internet stocks in the late ’90s, was replaced by none other than Henry Blodget at Merrill Lynch. He did it by building positions in technology value stocks which sounds like an oxymoron but made a ton of sense if you began buying in early 2002.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

They took on cheesy stock photos and cringey names like Big Spender Billy. It wasn’t helped by the fact that marketers seem fond of giving their personas silly names, such as “Social Butterfly Brenda” or “Value Hunter Valerie,” that attempt to collapse nuanced research into a single concept.

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Seeing Both Sides

MARCH 19, 2009

  In 2001/2002, it was Tyco’s CEO Dennis Koszlowski spending $1 million of shareholder money on his wife’s 40 th birthday party (mine is coming up this summer, by the way, and I don’t think it will cost my LPs very much at all, really). .   Have every Fortune 500 compensation committee run by a start-up CEO.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 7, 2017

One of the best definitions I’ve found, which expounds a bit more, comes from Tony Zambito circa 2002 : Tony Zambito: Buyer personas are research-based archetypal (modeled) representations of who buyers are, what they are trying to accomplish, what goals drive their behavior, how they think, how they buy, and why they make buying decisions.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

But the stock market continued to tank and one of our investors who had committed $12 million pulled out. The only problem was that the pesky stock market kept declining and that new investor pulled out. By the time of my wedding in July 2002 I was super fit. We had a $40 million round lined up to close in the Autumn of 2000.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

I remember sitting down in the balcony of my apartment and looking into the night, taking stock of my life so far. In the early days, my belief was that blogs (or as I called them micro-pubs back in 2002) would grow really fast and it would allow me to aggregate large subsets of audiences around specific niches. Name (required).

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

IN THIS EDITION Fintech products ease more Americans into the stock market In defense of the IPO, and how to improve it What’s inside your (mobile) bank? Among the most interesting is Stash’s “stock back” program, which is essentially an alternative form of rewards. Thanks for signing up. in addition to home ownership.

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

Bix, 2002). The difference between point size and actual letter size (Image © Bix, 2002). It is often a better indicator of the apparent size of a typeface than point size ( Poulton, 1972 ; Bix, 2002 ). X-height refers to the height of the lower case “x” in a typeface. Journal of Design Communication , No.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Mental Pandiculation » Why I Don’t Hang Out With People Named David. Name one widely acclaimed or groundbreaking technology or technique to come out of the.NET realm in the past 5 years? Now name one that didn’t come from Microsoft? I challenge you to name a 1.7 March 25, 2011 at 3:06 pm. [.]

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

But the Valley in 1999 was a new world of startups, venture capital, and stock options. But then came 9/11 and the severe downturn in the Valley in 2002. As we expanded, BlaBlaCar never had different names in different locations. It was entirely by accident to be honest! And that was the start of an interesting journey.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2020

slashed CDC staff inside China prior to coronavirus outbreak" "America Fails the Marshmallow Test" , Paul Krugman Professor Yuen, Kwok-Yung Natasha Martin , UCSD Bacteriophage Therapy Transcript for Out of the Crisis #16, Dr. Robert Schooley Eric Ries : My name is Eric Ries, this is Out of the Crisis. Why are we still not ready?

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