Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Building a product around the needs of actual users is the best way to develop something that will actually create value, but also to validate demand ahead of pouring more resources into your venture. Early adopters, especially those who are willing to pay for novel services, are the lifeblood of lean startups.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2010

Yes, we’ll always want to encourage higher quality, but it won’t matter if we have crappy demand. He started his first company in 1997 at the age of 14 and has also served in leadership roles at Stardoll and Advertigo. ([link]. 03:30 PM: Could The iPad Have Saved Gourmet?

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2019

Back in 1997, when I was a high school junior and my brother Evan was a freshman, we launched a local moving service called Meathead Movers. Working a full-time (and demanding) job, a home, school and life, in general, was no easy feat, so I chose to leave my corporate job to an academic job. 4- Started as a part-time work.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 6, 2018

In 1997, McKay co-founded junior mineral resource company, Cornerstone Capital Resources Inc. It takes significant funds to get a mine up and running, and although SolGold and Cornerstone have done plenty of exploration work at Cascabel, I don’t think it will go into production until commodities demand and prices improve.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Then they move into demanding a person who demanded excellence of himself and others around him. I mean, there a lot of people that felt absolutely very demanding. It started in 1997 with his first letter and his last letter in 2000 that came out in 2021. They even use remarkably the same words.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 20, 2013

build Compaq Financial Services (CFS) from its inception in 1997 into a global force with over $3.7 You’ll find out how Rothman help lead the transformation that enabled AT&T Capital to become the second-largest leasing company in the U.S.,

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 30, 2011

I created my first infoproduct way back in 1997. Intuitively I had picked a product that was in high demand by the target audience. Infopreneurs Need To Follow Demand In another post, I wrote about the link between passion and entrepreneurial success. You must learn to correctly identify desire and assess demand.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 22, 2019

It took a big advance in technology combined with rising gasoline prices to prepare consumers to finally accept hybrid power, and they did so with the 1997 arrival of the Toyota Prius — more than 100 years after the first electric car. Awareness and demand for change must outweigh the comfort of familiarity.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

In fact, at the time (1996-1997) we offered both a downloadable product, that our customers could install on their own servers, and a “hosted-offering”, which came to be known as “On-Demand”, then the “ASP” (Application Service Provider) model, and today we call it “SaaS” (Software as a Service).

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The annual Interactive Festival awards program began in 1997 as the Texas Interactive Media Achievement Awards, and was re-named the SXSW Web Awards the following year. Due to popular demand, we offered a late entry period this season through November 18. Why are they called the SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards?

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Life Beyond Code

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Focus on ROII: If you provide a solid return on investment for every interaction with you, you will be surely in demand. Save time and more by skipping News: I must have spent close to 200 hours watching news or reading newspapers since 1997. It has the same effect in general. You can watch a short video on this topic here.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 30, 2017

So in a world where supply and demand is key, Singapore does certainly have the ratio pretty much right. Originally offices, and latterly a post office, in 1997 Sino Land spent S$300 million on converting it into a hotel and developing the adjacent commercial centre. Investment as a whole.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 26, 2011

Since 1997, he has led an independent consulting practice focused on helping businesses of all sizes elevate performance and achieve healthy growth. In fact, many of the healthiest businesses start with market demand – they identify an unmet need that customers will pay to have addressed – and then build backwards from there.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

I’d like to explain as best I can my opinion on what is going on because most of what I hear from entrepreneurs is not only wrong but is reminiscent of what I heard in 1997-2000. The Laws of Supply & Demand. The most basic chart of microeconomics is a supply & demand curve. What is the True Sentiment of VCs?

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

By 1997, the company’s penny stocks were valued at $4.4 Investors typically purchase these stocks because they the demand for these stocks are huge. Walsh falsely claimed that Bre-X found a gold mine in Burma. This mining scam is one of the most famous mining scams. Speculation soon soared and many people invested in the company.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Certification began in 1997, as a concrete way to ensure that a fair trade certified (FTC) label on a product meant that a series of milestones had been met, and a socially conscious consumer could rest easy with their purchase. Meets the demand of the socially-conscious consumer. The Pros and Cons of Fair Trade Coffee.

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BeyondVC

JULY 19, 2005

It reminds me of a panel that I spoke on in 1997 at the Red Herring Java Technology Conference. On the enterprise side, the only reason I would support having a company move off an existing platform to.Net is if there was significant customer demand for it and if Microsoft would really provide the company with access to its channel.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 20, 2018

When I think of servant leadership I think of Pat Summitt, my basketball coach at the University of Tennessee from 1997 to 2001. She was stomping up and down the sidelines, yelling to her team, staring them down and demanding respect. Pat was more than our coach. Pat passed away on June 28, 2016, but she will be a part of me forever.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 27, 2021

Netflix began in 1997 as a video rental competitor to Blockbuster. With this shift has come an increased demand for “streaming originals,” which Netflix has dominated since 2012. Now, the streaming service has as many users worldwide as the entire population of Canada, the United Kingdom, and Japan combined.

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BeyondVC

JULY 19, 2005

It reminds me of a panel that I spoke on in 1997 at the Red Herring Java Technology Conference. On the enterprise side, the only reason I would support having a company move off an existing platform to.Net is if there was significant customer demand for it and if Microsoft would really provide the company with access to its channel.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

In 1997, a Charles River Ventures fund yielded a stunning 15x return, backing such superstars as Ciena, Vignette and Flycast. The average venture capital fund raised between 1995 and 1997 returned more than 50% per year. Demand from these, now larger, economies are having a very positive effect on the US tech market.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

We need our team members to have sustainable work / life balance or risk losing them to another less demanding industry all together. As you may remember, I was lucky enough to have recieved, at your hands, the beating I so richly deserved back in 1997 while at ONETOUCH Systems. Just so you know, it helped immeasurably. Life is good.

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Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

I’d be curious what other people in-region think about this (and keep in mind, I won’t be doing the investing there, Shiyan will be :) ): 1) There are opportunities galore People like to use chronological analogies, so if I had to do that here, I would put investment opportunities in SEA at around 1997. But, for VCs, it’s different.

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Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

I’d be curious what other people in-region think about this (and keep in mind, I won’t be doing the investing there, Shiyan will be :) ): 1) There are opportunities galore People like to use chronological analogies, so if I had to do that here, I would put investment opportunities in SEA at around 1997. But, for VCs, it’s different.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Warren Buffet, 1997. On the demand side, the IPO process is limited to a handful of institutional investors and also ignores the vast majority of retail investors. Investment banks simply do not match supply and demand. Marketing 101: Customers love free stuff. The desired allocation of the “hot IPO” is proof all by itself.

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www.igda.org

JULY 24, 2012

In his 1997 paper, Sleep, Sleep Deprivation, and Human Performance in Continuous Operations , he found that: Laboratory studies show that mental work declines by 25% during each successive 24 hours of continuous wakefulness. The risks are real -- and the errors made can be truly catastrophic. From The Promise of Sleep by Dr.

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

million just to replace losses from the current recession, then an additonal 10 million to keep up with population growth and to spark demand over the next decade. The quarter, which saw double digit declines in every major industry sector, marks the lowest venture investment level since 1997.” In the 1990s the U.S.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

— in a class so high in demand that I had to wait several quarters to take it? Extremely-Sharp.com originally started with a few retail locations in 1997, and we quickly started the e-commerce site the next year. The unstable economy demands that you develop entrepreneurial skills. It just didn’t make sense.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 22, 2011

Since 1997, he has led an independent consulting practice focused on helping businesses of all sizes elevate performance and achieve healthy growth. Passion-trapped founders assume market demand where none exists, and they are slow to acknowledge that weak sales may signal that their idea is not viable as a business concept.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2019

A sustaining innovation targets demanding, high-end customers with better performance than what was previously available. Specifically, as incumbents focus on improving their products and services for their most demanding (and usually most profitable) customers, they exceed the needs of some segments and ignore the needs of others.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Scholar and innovation expert Clayton Christensen explains it this way: A sustaining innovation targets demanding, high-end customers with better performance than what was previously available. Incumbents, chasing higher profitability in more-demanding segments, tend not to respond vigorously.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

In 1997 the Nielsen Norman Group revealed that 79% of users they tested scanned web pages rather than reading them. What demand is out there for a solution like your product? This first tip is important. People are busy. They lead fast-paced lives. And, a million things are vying for their attention. What problems do people have?

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