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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Whilst teaching 16-18-year-old college students part-time, I had taken on a Flash website build in mid-2004 for a highly-reputed jewelry company in Bristol, UK, referred to me by a friend, and done a good job, other website opportunities started to come in.

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Stock Photos vs. Real Photos: Does It Matter?

ConversionXL

In their research, they flashed images across a screen in a manner that made it impossible for participants to be fully conscious of what they were seeing. The most notorious faux pas was in 2004, when competitors Dell and Gateway used photos from the same photo shoot in their “Back to School” promotional material.

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REAL Lessons of The Social Network

Growthink Blog

Not mentioned in the movie is the unbelievable story of a Peter Thiel one of the founders of PayPal investing $500,000 in 2004 in exchange for approximately 5% of Facebook. From conferences, parties, chance encounters, flash and intuitive insights. At a current U.S. How shall we seek the wisdom as to what the next big thing will be?

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Stock Photography vs. Real Photos: Can’t We Use Both?

ConversionXL

In their research, they flashed images across a screen in a manner that made it impossible for participants to be fully conscious of what they were seeing. The most notorious faux pas was in 2004, when PC competitors Dell & Gateway used photos from the same photo shoot in their “Back to School” promotional material.

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The Right Time + The Right Team + The Right Technology

Eric Friedman

Well, for starters I don’t believe there was the ubiquity of broadband that existed in 2004-2005. The first is that there was an explosion browser based video players that were found in almost all computers – Adobe Flash. Previously used for interactive and complicated websites, the Flash player for video was perfect.

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Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

Startup Lessons Learned

It was fall 2004, and the presidential election was in full swing. It was one of those brilliant startup brainstorms that comes to the team in a flash, with a giant thunderclap. Hopefully that will take some of the sting out of the fact that you had to engage in a little trickery.

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Weekend Favs June Twenty Five :: Small Business Marketing Blog.

Duct Tape Marketing

Flowplayer – open source flash video player that allows you to customize the player for your embedded video and create a branded player – a step up from simple YouTube embeds for serious video experience.