Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2012

By 1997 E.piphany was a fast growing startup with customers, revenue and something approaching a repeatable business model. With a massive leap of creativity we decided that it should it should have our company name and the letter “E” with a swoop over it. Given that the name of my company and the name of your.

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David Teten

JUNE 12, 2011

" Since 1997, Corporate University Xchange (CorpU) has armed senior executives with cutting edge talent improvement research and benchmarking. Online Executive Education, "Better Than Ivy at a Quarter the Price."

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Marvel’s fascinating turnaround story is no less than a heroic action story where the protagonist flips the scales at the last moment and arises like the phoenix, just like the many superheroes it helped become household names. Netflix was founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph to combat late fees for video rentals.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

I immediately registered a few obvious domain names. In 1997 we hired an NYU undergrad to create a better bplans.com site, focusing on business planning and especially publishing sample plans. I’d been active in Compuserve and its competition, but here was the whole new world. I was hooked.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

I didn’t listen as I didn’t want to work with anyone that was intimidated by a NAME of all of things. I didn’t listen as I didn’t want to work with anyone that was intimidated by a NAME of all of things.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 8, 2015

A case in point is Apple, whose “Think Different” campaign in 1997 (see video below) served as a rallying call to those who shared the brand’s values. Forging deeper emotional connections with consumers, strong brands help communities to build a common identity.

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Diego Basch

AUGUST 14, 2013

There was one time when building a decent search engine was relatively simple: crawl a few million pages (in 1997, that would have included pretty much every interesting web page out there). If you and I start typing a first name (J-o-h), odds are it will show us people we know named John, along with their pictures.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

It can be as simple as writing the name of the person you treated to lunch and what you discussed on the lunch receipt to substantiate a meal deduction; or a note in your calendar to document the business purpose of a meeting for which you claimed deductible business miles. Record Business purpose.

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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. It started in 1997 with his first letter and his last letter in 2000 that came out in 2021. If you can remember a good Italian name like Carmine Gallo.

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blog.teamtreehouse.com

DECEMBER 5, 2012

A sensible naming scheme is vital for CSS frameworks. Responsive Grid System by Denis LeBlanc was the first of two named “Responsive Grid System.” Ben Gremillion started playing with pixels in the mid-1980s and building websites circa 1997. His name isn’t Angus Droll, you morons. First Name.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2019

Our mission stems from our passion in creating automotive technology disruption, our vision of a more sustainable future and our belief in astoundingly desirable designs that the Fisker name has been known for all around the world. We have a major opportunity to revolutionize the car industry, while helping to create a cleaner world.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 7, 2018

Many small businesses assume that brands start and end with their business name and logo, and overlook all of the other important marketing content that is a part of any substantial branding effort. Even if you have a blog, it might be lost in your website navigation and might look like it was designed in 1997.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 8, 2022

That makes me sound like a genius today, But the point was 25 years ago that when you went to work for Hewlett, what's 25 years ago is 97, when you went to work for Hewlett Packard in 1997, you expected to be there for the next 40 years. And you didn't have a name anymore. And what's your first name again? It's not a strategy.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

I worked in Rome on a small team with a really smart young woman named Elisabetta. In 1997 I was sent to England to work on a project for the oil company Halliburton. Initially I thought it was too long of a name for a blog.When I looked at the competition it as AVC.com and Feld.com. And the whole world just accepted that.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

Every one of these events (with names changed) has happened to companies I’ve worked at or closely with. Imagine how Flurry felt when Steve Jobs called them out by name. Let’s say you became a partner in a VC fund in 1995 and started investing heavily in 1997-99. If anything it’s the tame version. They were envious.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

In 1997, RIM introduced the first packet-switched messaging device. The new device could hold names, email addresses, phone and fax numbers and incoming and outgoing messages. In a major strategy shift, they decided to sell a product directly to businesses. RIM Interactive Pager 900.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 28, 2018

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 Though Kohn and Sting got the party started, the age of ecommerce didn’t truly begin in earnest until 1997. by credit card.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2015

The company’s brand name. In 1997, I chose to suppress a similar finding: users tend to click on banner ads that look like dialog boxes, complete with fake OK and Cancel buttons. Still, fake dialog boxes got many more clicks than regular banners, which users had already started to ignore in 1997. ”. A single headline.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Naming a Business. Back in 1997, Randy Parker was staring at a blank whiteboard, wondering where hed find the money to hire the employees and consultants he needed to build his new product. "We Tools & Research. Newsletters. Subscriptions. Advisor. ); STARTUP. Writing A Business Plan. Running A Home-Based Business. How to Incorporate.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 2, 2011

Although it was published way back in 1997, its lessons still ring true in this day and age, especially with its global uncertainties and the frantic pace of a continually connected existence. Here, one should concentrate one’s mind on one’s ultimate goals.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2019

It has stood behind its paywall since 1997, trusting that customers interested in its content would pay upwards of $200 a year for it. A newspaper or magazine built to compete in the future knows its users’ names and where they live, what they do online, and, through cookies, some of what they do on other sites.

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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. The SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards recognize some of the most exciting tech developments in the connected world.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Three years ago today, I grabbed the domain name BrooklynBridgeVentures.com. Getting a domain name. I got an internship on the buy side at the GM pension fund in high school--in 1997. After my two year stint was up, I bought a domain name. It''s kind of a funny answer to "When did you start Brooklyn Bridge Ventures?".

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Ironically, they’ll especially think this if they are working in a big company because they are more cautious about taking risks on “no-names”. I was fortunate to live in Silicon Valley for six years before moving to “Silicon Hills” in 1997?—?having DFS was formed in 1997 to provide Dell customers the best financing options.

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). 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 ). Required fields are marked * Name *. Review article. Protextuel.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

The authors encourage quoting from this article or using the data in articles and presentations but request that the title of this article and the names of the authors be cited for attribution. Please consider this article an ongoing reference for capital sources in Austin as we intend to keep it updated as we learn new relevant information.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 30, 2017

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. This year it was also named by the World Bank in its 2017 “Doing Business” report as second easiest economy for business in the world. Investment as a whole.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 31, 2014

His name will be familiar to plenty of you – it’s Fred Wilson. The prior fund that I had co-founded – Mobius Venture Capital – had blown up after having a very successful first fund in 1997. He’s someone we trust with anything and listen to carefully whenever he has feedback.

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SiliconHills

JANUARY 8, 2015

South by Southwest has named Girlstart Executive Director Tamara Hudgins to its Interactive Hall of Fame for 2015. SXSW is honoring Hudgins for her work in expanding and developing the Austin-based nonprofit organization since 2009. Austin Girlstart SXSW Interactive'

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

I started my business namely to help others and to improve upon the aloof customer service being presented in the IT industry. That’s what spawned the idea that I can do better and namely how computer users deserved much better. Do you know the name of the cleaning person? That’s it. That’s what we do.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 5, 2016

PayPal was originally introduced as Confinity and was founded by several big names, including Max Levchin, Luke Nosek, Ken Howery, and Peter Thiel. In 1997, Coca-Cola developed and released vending machines, which were able to accept payments through text messages. Mobile Payments.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Build-A-Bear stores starting springing up in 1997 and have grown in popularity, with locations around the world today. Niketown is the retail name for global athletic brand Nike, and their stores have been popping up around the world since the first opened in 1990 in downtown Portland, Ore. Build-A-Bear.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 30, 2019

Back in 1997, Jeff Bezos was talking about frictionless shopping when most companies were just thinking about getting serious about being online. Roger Dooley: Well if you … it is usually a bad thing, but that means that if you can eliminate it, you will have an advantage over your competition. Same thing for prescription drugs.

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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. There are critics of the fair trade system itself, who say that it is less impactful than the name would imply.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 5, 2013

Not surprisingly, Snapple declined to make a second attempt to break the official record, which had been set in Holland in 1997 by a 21-foot ice pop. One marketing guru named William Crush came up with a killer idea: create a “temporary” city and the stage a train wreck for an audience of paying spectators. PR Destroyed It.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

Every one of these events (with names changed) has happened to companies I’ve worked at or closely with. Imagine how Flurry felt when Steve Jobs called them out by name. Let’s say you became a partner in a VC fund in 1995 and started investing heavily in 1997-99. If anything it’s the tame version. They were envious.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 13, 2012

One of the most iconic brands of our time – Apple – was reborn after it launched, in 1997, an innovative campaign inviting people to “Think Different” Today, Apple products are perceived to be better designed, more fun, and more reliable than products from Apple’s competitors. Have a good name and logo.

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