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The Changed Definition of Vertical Technology

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It was 1997. Gartner used to publish an annual poster which rated systems integrators/outsourcers by industries, by geographies, by technologies, and other competencies. It was a large wall hanger with many rows and columns, and many analysts, including me, had.

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Lies Entrepreneurs Tell Themselves « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

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. Reply Ken Chow , on June 18, 2009 at 12:13 pm Said: Steve, What a joy to see you finally sharing all your terrific stories and aphorisms in this blog. Just so you know, it helped immeasurably.

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Banner Ads Suck (and How to Make Them Convert Better)

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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. ”. With these in mind came the advent of native advertising.

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A Look at Responsive CSS Frameworks

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Lacking vertical alignment, all of the frameworks were technically half grids. Fundamentally, frameworks resemble table-based layout of yore: Horizontal rows divided into vertical blocks. In a separate stylesheet, though, it includes styles to manage a site’s baseline, or vertical grid. Old school. Toast is simple.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: athenahealth

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One company in Watertown, Massachusetts has been executing on this vision for over a decade with a winning approach for one vertical slice of the small business market: physicians. The company was originally founded in 1997 by Jonathan Bush (1st cousin of George W.) Founding Story: A Pivot. Athenahealth version 1.0

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New VC-InsideOut Podcast: Best Practices for Building High-Performance Boards During Challenging Times

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42in;text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed; vertical-align:baseline;mso-line-break-override:none;punctuation-wrap:hanging"> SOME COMMON EXAMPLES OF BOARD MISALIGNMENT.42in;text-indent:-.42in;text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed; 42in;text-indent:-.42in;text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed; of fiduciary duty.

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

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Ascenders and are the vertical strokes which rise above the body of a character or x-height. Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). Size, style, and vertical spacing in the legibility of small typefaces. Counters are the “negative spaces” inside a character. They are also good indicators of the actual size of the type.