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Ted Rheingold Founded Dogster in 2004: Five Questions About Building a Startup, Selling a Startup and Whether SF Is Still a Good Place

Hunter Walker

Hunter Walk: I know you started Dogster, one of the seminal early online communities, but I don’t know Dogster’s founding story. Dogster launched January 12, 2004 (Happy 12th Birthday Dogster!) Photo Credit: Christopher Michel. How did the site come about? This was pre-Google images, pre-MySpace/Facebook.

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How to Use Frugal Innovation to Grow Your Startup

ReadWriteStart

In addition, mobile banking can lead to more excellent financial stability and empowerment for individuals and communities, helping to reduce inequalities and promote development. The Renault Logan , released in 2004, is a prime example of frugal innovation. The Renault Logan.

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Vaping: the Startup Business in 2018

The Startup Magazine

The first modern e-cigarette was made in the mid-2000s and started to be sold in 2004, but the trend only caught up worldwide after 2010, when the interest in vaping started to increase and, consequently, the number of e-cigarette users too – a strong indicator of why this growing industry is currently trending amongst entrepreneurs.

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The True Costs Of Entrepreneurship

YoungUpstarts

No, talking on the phone isn’t ‘social’; no, emailing witty messages to your client crush won’t give you real community; no, I don’t care how important you are on reddit or Instagram. Build community into your lifestyle as deliberately as you mold your business. Find your tribe.

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7 New Opportunities Based On Trends And Demographics

Startup Professionals Musings

million, born 1985-2004, biggest business opportunity Baby Boomers (no other name) – 70.7 The building of new houses, communities, and infrastructure – as well as the new demand for retail that delivers – will strain trucking and shipping to its limits. First, a quick summary of the major U.S. With 330 million people in the U.S.

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Customer Development in Japan: a History Lesson

Steve Blank

In 2004, Googling terms like “high tech marketing” and “startup” I discovered “ The Four Steps to The Epiphany ” at Cafépress.com. Since then, I have been teaching Customer Development and running Lean LaunchPad style classes at variety of universities, national research laboratories, incubators, and startup communities throughout Japan.

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Support an Entrepreneur: Buy Local Technology

ReadWriteStart

As someone who spent two years in 2003 and 2004 in NYC selling technology to Wall St trading firms and having my friends and clients wonder what this whole startup thing was about and why I was "wasting" my career doing this after doing a fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University it is great to see how vibrant the NY Startup community has become.