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An Open Letter to Startup Founders Everywhere in a Time of Crisis

David Cohen

I started my first business in 1993, right in the middle of the recession, because I didn’t know any better. In 2000, the Internet bubble burst. I didn’t really see how it would affect me. We raised a lifetime grand total of $100,000 for that business in the form of advance payment from early customers. See you soon, I’m sure.

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[Interview] Tony Saldanha, Author of ‘Why Digital Transformations Fail: The Surprising Disciplines of How to Take Off and Stay Ahead’

YoungUpstarts

When I left Procter & Gamble as VP in Global Business Services and IT after a career of 27 years, I’d been associated with setting up the first shared services operation in the Philippines in 1993 — program managing an $8 billion dollar outsourcing deal.

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An Interview with Steve Ligouri, Serial Innovator

Startup Lessons Learned

I’m a partner in his latest venture, the Corporate Entrepreneur Community (CEC) , the newest addition to his long history of reinvention work that spans industries ranging from football to banking. This was in 1993, and I was the chief marketing officer at Frito-Lay North America. I hope you’ll enjoy the conversation as much as I did.

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Do More Faster in PE Hub

Feld Thoughts

Ive been helping create software and Internet companies for over 25 years, starting with my first company, Feld Technologies, in 1985 when I was in college. We bootstrapped the business because we had to and by 1993, when we sold the company to a large public company, we’d built a nice, consistently profitable business.

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

alexpoole.info

An argument has been raging for decades within the scientific and typographic communities on what seems a very insignificant issue: Do serifs contribute to the legibility of typefaces, and by definition, are sans serif typefaces less legible? 1993 ; Moriarty & Scheiner, 1984 ; Poulton, 1965 ; Coghill, 1980) ). Introduction.

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Think Different: How To Make Your Tagline Stand Out From The Crowd

crowdSPRING Blog

California Milk Processor Board) – 1993. You can leverage crowdSPRING’s community of more than 65,000 designers and writers to come up with your tagline , or you can come up with one on your own. Insurance companies speak with a different voice than Internet companies. Just do it (Nike) – 1988. That’s OK.

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Think Different: How To Make Your Tagline Stand Out From The Crowd

crowdSPRING Blog

California Milk Processor Board) – 1993. You can leverage crowdSPRING’s community of more than 65,000 designers and writers to come up with your tagline , or you can come up with one on your own. Insurance companies speak with a different voice than Internet companies. Just do it (Nike) – 1988. That’s OK.