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If the Customer Is Truly King, Then Sonoma Partners Is One Smitten Queen
The firm works exclusively with Microsoft Microsoft Dynamics Customer Relationship Management software, thus they were in a prime position to goose their bottom line during a downturn. This goes back to the idea that businesses are holding tight to their existing customers. Any time a head of a company uses the word "upswing" in detailing his business' recent success, there is a bit of a compulsion around these parts to comment on the company. Please excuse a little cheerleading.
Fast Company - Tuesday, March 9, 2010
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Cleveland's Galleria Mall Turns Lost Retail Space Into Greenhouse Farm Stand
Shopping malls, those bastions of American consumerism, have not been immune to the recent economic downturn. So employees of the Galleria came up with the idea for the Gardens Under Glass project, a so-called urban ecovillage inside the mall that features carts of fruits and vegetables grown on-site. In a recent piece by our own Greg Lindsay, we looked at the impending decline of the mall, which is part of the "single-use environment" category of real estate development that will slowly disappear over the next thirty years, according to one developer. But what will replace these environments,
Fast Company - Tuesday, March 9, 2010
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Why You Should Start a Company in... New Orleans
The city now boasts entrepreneurial enclaves like Entrepreneur's Row, Idea Village and Entergy Innovation Center, all of which is basically real estate housing startup efforts. The idea of doing well while doing good. Through the downturn, through the recession, they've had tremendous success as some of the banks and some of the companies with real problems turn to them. It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. But emerging entrepreneurial hubs around the country are giving startup aspirants options.
Fast Company - Friday, March 5, 2010
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  • Can the Statusphere Save Journalism?
    The persistent reverberation of those ideas in my head in the weeks to follow the exchange led me to explore the impact of the Statusphere on the authority of the blogosphere, as measured today. To broaden revenue horizons, publishers are experimenting with the idea of micro payments, charging consumers a few cents to view stories and also resurrecting pay walls, which serve as a tollbooth between readers and deeper content. Recently, I enjoyed a refreshing and invigorating dinner with Walt Mossberg. While we casually discussed our most current endeavors and experiences, the
    TechCrunch - Saturday, April 11, 2009
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  • Reid Hoffman Tells Charlie Rose: “Every Individual Is Now An Entrepreneur.”
    Which is, by the way, what gave me the idea for LinkedIn. So I’m a huge believer in the way that you actually get out of these economic downturns is through entrepreneurship, because that creates new kinds of jobs that actually have longevity and strength to them. CHARLIE ROSE: But there’s also this idea of — and I’ve explored this before — with community. Reid Hoffman is an entrepreneur’s entrepreneur. He worked at Paypal, founded LinkedIn, and invested in dozens more.
    TechCrunch - Thursday, March 5, 2009
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  • Steel Cage Debate On The Future Of Online Advertising: Danny Sullivan Vs. Eric Clemons
    Moreover, the downturn in internet advertising seems far more a failure of the economy right now than a failure of existing advertising models. This point got lost in the fury over the title of the article and in rage over the idea that online advertising might lose its importance. Clemons seems to be arguing against an idea few people have had. Editor’s note : Last Sunday, we published a guest post by Wharton Professor Eric Clemons on “Why Advertising Is Failing On The Internet.” 8221; The post questioned a basic assumption that many of us in
    TechCrunch - Saturday, March 28, 2009
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  • Is the Growth Of The Web Slowing Down Or Just Taking A Breather?
    The growth of the Web so far can be broken down into two five-year cycles, where every year the growth rate gets bigger until there is an economic downturn, when the growth rate takes a breather. News & Ideas Comscore Netcraft Royal Pingdo There are now 231.5 million Websites according to Netcraft .
    TechCrunch - Friday, May 8, 2009
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  • PubMatic: Remnant Ad Prices Are Half What They Were A Year Ago
    Fourth quarter data is starting to trickle in on how bad the online advertising downturn is turning out to be. News & Ideas Company & Product Profile The latest data comes from Pubmatic , an online ad optimization service used by more than 5,000 sites large and small. PubMatic’s fourth quarter AdPrice Index, which I have obtained, shows the average rates paid to these sites for remnant display ad inventory (i.e.,
    TechCrunch - Tuesday, January 13, 2009
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  • A Recipe Site Goes IPO, In Japan (Cookpad)
    It seems that even in this downturn, there is still room for tech IPOs, at least in Japan. News & Ideas cookpa Cookpad [JP], the nation’s biggest site for sharing recipes, today announced it will be listed in the “Mothers” section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange on July 17. Cookpad was launched as early as 1997 by the Tokyo-based company of the same name.
    TechCrunch - Friday, June 12, 2009
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  • The Digital Divisions Are Dead At Big Media
    The last time the big media companies pulled back from the Web, it was because the Internet sector led the downturn. News & Ideas Fox Interactive Media CBS Interactive Company & Product Profiles Cnet Viacom CBS Last.fm Big Media’s love affair with the Internet ebbs and flows with the markets. When they see money pouring into Web startups, they feel threatened and rush to do the same.
    TechCrunch - Wednesday, March 11, 2009
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  • Hulu’s Super Bowl Ad Comes With An Ad
    There were also lots of ads that poked fun at the economic downturn, including an ETrade ad with talking babies and a Cash4Gold.com ad starring Ed McMahon and and MC Hammer. News & Ideas Monster.com CareerBuilder hulu etrad The Super Bowl is perhaps the one television event where people actually look forward to the ads because so much effort is put into each one. And every year, there are a handful of standouts.
    TechCrunch - Sunday, February 1, 2009
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  • Beyond mediation
    And I have a feeling that the current economic downturn will make it move faster. * Tags: Journalism News Ideas Bloggin We are all media now, right? That’s what we, the mediating, tell ourselves. (Or Or some of us, anyway.)
    Doc Searls Weblog - Tuesday, December 30, 2008
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  • It Turns Out Zecco’s Free Trading Model Isn’t Such A Good Idea
    Although Zecco was able to secure $25 million in funding late last year, the company has been hit hard by a decline in trading due to the economic downturn. We outlined three points in 2006 on why Zecco’s free trading model raised some red flags. Unsurprisingly, the discount online brokerage firm has been forced to change its pricing structure due to the economic crisis.
    TechCrunch - Monday, February 2, 2009
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