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Growth, Funding, Pivotal Moments and the Evolution of Adzerk to Kevel

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It was 2007, which I realized is 13 years ago, which feels like a very long time. But back, but yeah, I mean, back-to-back in like 2007-2008 timeframe, I actually acquired a small ad network. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week.

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Why Your ‘Brilliant’ Technology Fails To Have Impact | Tom Adeyoola, Metail | BoS Europe 2018

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Which was then implemented in 2007. This is like late 2007. So a company I was at Inspired Gaming Group, they were about to sell the business at the end of 2007 to Icelandic banks. And timing was critical. So as I mentioned the market was growing and a lot of that was because of expectations around the gaming act to 2005.

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14 years building BoS

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So you’ve come in and you’ve been running annual conferences since 2007, and then bi annual conferences since 2014, when you launched the EU as well as the US conference. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. Kirk Baillie. Mark Littlewood. Kirk Baillie.

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Leading A High-Growth Company | David Cancel, Drift | BoS USA 2018

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They didn’t feel good for the first almost three years Compete, and we sold Compete in 2007 to a company WPP a London based giant. It has a lot around servant leadership about focus on the customer and what have you. E-commerce is dead. Department like all of these things make for nice stories now.

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“It Was The Best Of Times, It Was The Worst Of Times” – Every CEO Ever | Tim Barker, DataSift | BoS Europe 2018

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And that really is an ethos for a leadership style that you want. If you’d been the hard-nosed micromanagement CEO, everyone would have left because you needed to create a combined spirit that we can dig our way out of this drama, like to build kind of the technology in the business around that. But maybe they were volunteers.

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Launching a New Breakout Product | Jason Fried | BoS USA Online 2020

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In 2007, we launched Highrise; we launched a new product every year for like four or five years, basically. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. And that was exciting. But again, you forget that the real work comes from maintaining products.