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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

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This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. The viral nature of social media no doubt aided this growth, as did improvements in the online shopping experience.

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Stitch Fix: Reinventing Retail Through Personalization

abovethecrowd.com

Awareness of the service was clearly spreading virally through word of mouth. I began covering Dell as an equity analyst for First Boston in early 1994, and over the six years that followed, Dell’s stock would appreciate 100x; a remarkable and perhaps unprecedented run of value creation.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Disruptors

Hearpreneur

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. No company has even come close to the colossal number of orders it receives on a daily basis. Thanks to Adam Crossling, Zenzero ! #7- 7- Netflix. Photo Credit: Carl Panepinto.

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Revolutions and pleasure

Start Up Blog

In the October 1994 Issue of Wired , Gary Wolfe said in an article, article about Mosiac (the worlds first GUI web browser) and the coming internet revolution. “When it comes to smashing a paradigm, pleasure is not the most important thing… it is the only thing.&#.

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What QR Codes Can Do For Event Marketing

YoungUpstarts

Invented in 1994, as the smartphone became more commonplace so too did the use of QR codes. QR codes can promote social media for sponsors, as well as help to create a viral online campaign. QR codes can also be used to add value to the brands and businesses who may have sponsored the event or had significant input.

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Lessons From Defeat, A True or False Quiz

Up and Running

. … Director of Engineering at Organic Online … CTO at Webstorm, where he wrote one of the Internet’s first shopping cart applications in 1994. It wasn’t that Wesabe never made money, it wasn’t about better design, or who was viral, and not even about who was first. He is a graduate of Reed College. So what does he say happened?

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8 Ways To Leverage The “I Like To Watch” Ubertrend

ReadWriteStart

This ubertrend spurred a host of subtends, including reality shows, like MTV’s The Real World , which debuted in 1992; Celebrity Worship Syndrome , coined in 2003 and propelled by “pixel paparazzis;” HDTV in 1998; helicopter police chases, including the infamous 1994 O.J. Video Accessories.

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