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5 Most Successful Products Ever and What Small Businesses Can Learn From Them

crowdSPRING Blog

So, what better way to learn than to study the products that have cracked the success code? The iPhone also launched with iOS – the software platform that makes all of the magic behind that touchscreen possible. For the first time, installing new software became easily accessible to all iPhone users. Lipitor (1997).

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Pop-ups — Is Annoying Your Customers Worth a Few Newsletter Sign-ups?

Up and Running

Why web pop-ups have such a tumultuous reputation Now let’s take a look at the history of pop-ups in order to better understand how best to use them. By 1997, the pop-up plague had spread to sites across the net, including Geocities, AOL, and The New York Times. As commerce rose with the web — so did the associated marketing.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

After I left academia (too slow moving) and the consultancy company I worked for (lack of vision), four friends and I applied that puzzle-solving passion to creating software for solving supply chain puzzles. It was so bad that I almost wrote my first Yelp review. I left my full-time job that September and struck out on my own.