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Customer Data Platforms: The Next Big Shift in SaaS Marketing Stacks?

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7 years later, in 1993, Tom Siebel thought that Oracle (the company where he was employed) could have sold the internal sales application as a standalone product. Back in 1986 when digital marketing was just taking off, a company called ACT! launched a contact management software. All manual operations.

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

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Ascenders and are the vertical strokes which rise above the body of a character or x-height. 1993 ; Moriarty & Scheiner, 1984 ; Poulton, 1965 ; Coghill, 1980) ). Sassoon, 1993 ; Rubinstein, 1988 ). Size, style, and vertical spacing in the legibility of small typefaces. Ascenders and descenders. 2001 ; Tullis et al.,

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Raving Fans – How Our Themes Evolve

Feld Thoughts

I first thought of raving fans when I read Ken Blanchard’s book by the same name in 1993 when I was CEO of Feld Technologies (my first company). We all like the entrepreneur a lot, but the company didn’t feel like it fit in any of our themes and was too vertically oriented for us.

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Elephants Can Dance – Reinventing HP « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

IBM had a near death experience in 1993, and moved from a product-centric hardware company to selling a complete set of solutions and services. Intel was founded in 1968 to make memory chips ( bipolar RAM ) but 17 years later they got out of the memory business and become the leading microprocessor company.