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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

Dogster launched January 12, 2004 (Happy 12th Birthday Dogster!) By the end of 2004 I had brought on two co-founders: John Vars – who is now the Chief Product Office at TaskRabbit, and Steven Reading took over Sales and Revenue. This was pre-Google images, pre-MySpace/Facebook. I spent 6 months coding and building Dogster myself.

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

ReadWriteStart

It even penciled for Google in 1998, and it still worked well enough that Facebook chose to establish its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, in 2004. Next-generation chat, video calling, and project management software help keep teams in sync. Ditto for Apple. The boundaryless era, the time for distributed teams.

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6 Must-Have Features When You’re Launching A New E-Commerce Website

YoungUpstarts

Shoppers aren’t content with seeing a single photo of a product, they want a full showreel of high-resolution images and videos that display a product in various environments. Online consumers are more demanding than ever before. The technology is there to help consumers get a much better feel for online products, make sure you use it.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Reading the NY Times article “ Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Billion for Short-Form Video Venture, ” I realized it was time for a new startup heuristic: the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital.

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The Evolution Of The Podcast

Duct Tape Marketing

Todd is the CEO of Blubrry Podcasting – a podcast media company that represents 105,000 Audio and Video podcasters in which his company provides advertising opportunities, media distribution/hosting, podcast media statistics, and other services. He is a podcast advertising specialist, and he founded the Tech Podcast Network in 2004.

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3 Simple Ways to Empower Your Customers to Sell For You :: Small.

Duct Tape Marketing

2) Video testimonials Capturing your best client’s success story on video is a great way to create compelling content and provide 3rd party proof that your business does produce as promised. My experience is that most businesses have at least a few of those evangelist type customers just looking for ways to sing their praises.

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Managing Social Media With Fetch Plus

YoungUpstarts

. “We have a broad range of functionalities that enables each of the holdings to create the right user experience, everything from custom branded photo galleries, video galleries, real time lead generation, feeds, live chat built in plus countless other features are built into our product,&# she explains. What Could Have Been.