Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 7, 2008
It was fall 2004, and the presidential election was in full swing. Hopefully that will take some of the sting out of the fact that you had to engage in a little trickery. To motivate you to give this a try, let me tell you a story from the early days of IMVU. Take a look and let me know what you think.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 14, 2008
This was 2004, and we had never even heard of MySpace, let alone had any understanding of social networking. So the natural comparison, we thought, would be to other 3D avatar based products, like The Sims and World of Warcraft. But the early customers all compared it to MySpace. Take a look and let me know what you think.
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YoungUpstarts
JUNE 14, 2011
Magnus Lindkvist has an incredible job – the Stockholm, Sweden-based futurist and trendspotter is the founder and CEO of Pattern Recognition , which works with companies and organizations to “make sense (and money) out of the future.
Startup Lessons Learned
FEBRUARY 24, 2009
What happened when we got early press (circa 2004) in violation of our own no-PR rule. We actually lived this situation, and got to validate this answer: a process of rapid iteration can beat massive strategic investments from a big competitor. I especially enjoyed the discussion of the power of fact-based decision making.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 13, 2008
BillSeitz - yes, but that was already true back in 2004. Have AdWords rates increased too much for most common phrases like this to have the numbers work? May 8, 2009 2:27 PM Eric said. The absolute essential key is to bid only on low-volume low-value keywords. Take a look and let me know what you think.
Duct Tape Marketing
JULY 29, 2016
Cyprus – Section 06 of the Regulation of Electronic Communications and Postal Services Law of 2004. Sweden – Swedish Marketing Act. Belgium – Etat des lieux en juillet 2003, July 4, 2003. Czech Republic – Act No. Estonia – Information Society Service Act. France – CNIL Guidelines on Email Marketing.
VC Cafe
FEBRUARY 1, 2011
ChemChina, a state-owned company formed in 2004 from the former Ministry of Chemical Industry, had sales of $23 billion in 2010 and assets of $29 billion. Jasper also has R&D Centers in Brazil, Sweden and at its headquarters in Mountain View, California.
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