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Why Reed Hastings Should be Applauded for Netflix Split

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And many people actually still use Evite. I argued ages ago that Yahoo! Imagine if Carol Bartz or the Yahoo! MapQuest was (and is) a much shittier product than Google Maps yet people used it for years. It defied logic. People still pay for AOL dial up years after they no longer need to. this service will continue.

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Skate Where the Puck is Going

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[Update] : Some people have pointed out that all of today’s “innovations&# are just yesterday’s ideas rehashed such as Salesforce just doing Siebel on the web, Mint doing Quicken on the web, Quora copying Yahoo! And, yes, somebody has got to kill off evite. In my view almost all ideas are derivative.

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How Event Farm Is Making Events A Part Of Your Sales Funnel

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Our clients are large, Fortune 1000 companies, like Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Nike, JP Morgan, Lamborghini, and SpaceX. You can think of us as a super, high-end Evite, for the B2B, corporate space. We work with them on an annual basis, around the world, and help to power their events and experiential marketing.

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It combines a lot of the best features from evite, groupme, path, and color but is ultimately a unique solution in the market. Capsule is an event planning and group sharing platform built to help anyone who is planning, attending, or organizing a trip, party, or event. Lori Deschene – Founder of Tiny Buddha.