abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

The company, which the founder cleverly named “Stitch Fix,” had a remarkably unique offering compared to other women’s fashion experiences. ecommerce Internet retailing Uncategorized Venture Capital Web/Tech Ecommerce Retailing Stitch Fix' And you don’t have to worry about picking out the right clothes! https://stitchfix.com/gifts.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

When I think, of a “disruptor,” the first name that comes to mind is Elon Musk. It is truly a wonder when you start thinking about the massive scale that Amazon works at and how far the company has come along since 1994. Photo Credit: Fletcher Wimbush. Thanks to Adam Crossling, Zenzero ! #7- 7- Netflix. Photo Credit: Carl Panepinto.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 12, 2017

I remember back in 1994 when a friend asked if I’d like to buy a domain name. I’m not a domain investor myself, but, after spending 10 years in Internet marketing working for companies like Expedia and Partner Fusion, a leading marketing and technology incubator, I’ve seen many signs pointing to the value of new exact-match domains.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 3, 2012

Lopez and his family were living in a plastic tent in Barrio Nelson Mandela, Colombia, with $300 to his name. The bank lends to groups of women, with each receiving $50 to $100 to buy rickshaws for transporting wheat to market or to help them open Internet kiosks. Joyce Wafukho used her small savings to open a hardware store in 1994.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

No name for a company transforms the idea into one of the world's most admired brands. Remember, Bezos did not have a name for his company, and he didn't have a company. John, it may not mean a lot to you today, but at the time it certainly did because most people had the question, what's the internet? It was just an idea.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 15, 2012

For those of us who were around in the wild days of the internet’s infancy, the fact that the familiar name is still an existing entity might come as a surprise. Though they retained the name and url, AltaVista search was acquired by Yahoo! WebCrawler. MetaCrawler. s, but the site is still in use and relatively popular today.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 28, 2018

His far lesser known accomplishment is starring in the birth of internet retail. On August 11, 1994, the first ever ecommerce transaction occurred when a 21-year-old in New Hampshire named Dan Kohn sold a copy of Sting’s Ten Summoner’s Tales to a friend in Philadelphia who paid $12.48 by credit card.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2018

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. We asked entrepreneurs and business owners how they came up with their business name. #1- 1- Suggestive and evocative name.

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abovethecrowd.com

JANUARY 30, 2015

In their seminal 1994 book Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies , Jim Collins and Jerry Poras coined the term BHAG (pronounced BEE-hag) — an acronym that stands for “ B ig H airy A udacious G oal.” As we turn the page to 2015, Uber has a new BHAG, and it’s name is UberPool. “Can you take me Higher? Jeff Bezos.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Since 2009, Marc has co-founded two internet start-ups - PressDoc and *openmargin. BACKGROUND ON THE NAME ‘FEDEX’: When the company began operations in 1973 they were initially named Federal Express. However, after a while Federal Express outgrew its name and headed towards a more global approach.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Since 2009, Marc has co-founded two internet start-ups - PressDoc and *openmargin. BACKGROUND ON THE NAME ‘FEDEX’: When the company began operations in 1973 they were initially named Federal Express. However, after a while Federal Express outgrew its name and headed towards a more global approach.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

in it and that flimsy name-dropping “Blockchain Revolution” book was being published [fyi, that book is garbage], the African-American community has already been quietly working on blockchain/DLT technology and here is where this wonderful article begins. Stuff CNBC and other media outlets don’t want to acknowledge.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 5, 2016

As time has drug on, the Internet and technology have brought about new payment solutions, which make it possible to send money anywhere easily and more affordably. Although PayPal was introduced in 1998, consumers have been buying and selling online since 1994. Online Shopping.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 8, 2015

Currently, big names like IBM and Red Hat have each released app marketplaces. A visionary in the hosting space, Enright founded one of the first North American hosting companies, ValueWeb, in 1994, increasing revenue to more than $20 million before the company merged with Affinity Internet.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 3, 2021

Memories like those, plus a dressing room sign with my name on it, were what I took away from interning on Season Two of Late Night with Conan O’Brien while in college. And looking back, I never should have left the show.

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Brandanew

OCTOBER 26, 2015

The good thing about the Apple logo is that it tells the brand name without having to spell it. Walter Issacson’s autobiography of Steve Jobs reveals why Steve choose the name Apple. As shared by the Cult of Mac , On the naming of Apple, he said he was “on one of my fruitarian diets.” It is probably just that, a myth.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 23, 2014

For example, in 1994 Jeff Bezos founded Amazon from his garage in Washington, and Harley-Davidson started out of a home—and a shed—in Wisconsin. Questions to Ask Before Starting a Home-based Business: Before you set up an office in your basement and install high speed internet, ask yourself if you’re prepared to make this move.

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

They point out that of 123 statements about typography in Burt’s book, only three – 3 – were either supported by data or by reference to named sources (Rooum, 1981; Hartley and Rooum, 1983; in Lund, 1995 ). Pingback: Quelle police d’écriture sur internet? Required fields are marked * Name *. Ormerod, T.C.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 6, 2010

He’s paid his dues: … an entrepreneur-in-residence at O’Reilly Media …VP of Engineering at Sana Security… CEO of Popular Power … founder and general manager of Lucas Online, the internet subsidiary of Lucasfilm, Ltd. A domain name doesn’t win you a market; launching second or fifth or tenth doesn’t lose you a market.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 2, 2015

The name kind of says it all. The web appeared in 1994 and a completely different method of communication started its long march into integrating in our universe. I started my first real company in 1987. The pace of things was incredible. In 1999 things were moving so theoretically quickly that everything was a total blur.

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Board Effect

APRIL 20, 2020

The force behind the Hope Meadows community, a 501(c)(3), was a visionary by the name of Brenda Eheart. Eheart founded the nonprofit in 1994 on the site of the former Chanute Air Force Base. Foster and adoptive families have served their role in the community by completing 90 adoptions between 1994-2019. In the Beginning.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 18, 2011

From Brandt in the WSJ : In the summer of 1994, Mr. Bezos quit his job in New York as a vice president at the financial-services firm D.E. He and his wife, MacKenzie, moved to Seattle to take advantage of the explosive growth of the Internet and to start Amazon.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 6, 2010

Hi there, my name is Angus and I’m 30 … Although the name might imply, I actually don’t have much connection to Scotland. We also arrived at a rather pivotal and pertinent time in South African history, just after President Nelson Mandela was brought into power in 1994. Please tell us about yourself.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 6, 2010

Hi there, my name is Angus and I’m 30 … Although the name might imply, I actually don’t have much connection to Scotland. We also arrived at a rather pivotal and pertinent time in South African history, just after President Nelson Mandela was brought into power in 1994. Please tell us about yourself.

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Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2014

And we did, until the internet came on the scene a couple of years later and left us holding our floppy disks in our hands. With my third business, I didn’t even try to be original—I purchased a custom framing franchise and piggybacked to success on someone else’s name. We thought, “Hey, we can do that!” Write it down on a napkin.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 28, 2022

As early as 1994, he had guessed that the Internet would be the next boom, and people would prefer to buy things online in the future. Uber became a household name in only a matter of years, and although there have been many complaints about the service, you can’t deny the way that it has changed the transport industry worldwide.

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blogs.computerworlduk.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

In case your computer industry history is lacking, WS-I is the industry consortium that got together a decade ago to create specifications for Web Services protocols (note the capitals, so as not to confuse with actual internet services that use HTTP and REST for loosely-coupled data access).

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 15, 2018

We’ve been investing in companies built around technology protocols since 1994. Our investment in Gnip (which Twitter eventually acquired) helped extend this, by allowing companies to build products on top of the Twitter firehouse (which was the name for the entirety of everything being tweeted on Twitter.). Time passed.

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