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The First-Mover Advantage, Explained

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When I started selling HubSpot software in 2007, no one had ever heard of inbound sales and marketing. Because HubSpot provided a solution that was completely unique in the market, we had no competition from other companies selling the idea of inbound. Barnes & Noble answered with the Nook in 2007, but it was too late.

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How Much Money Has Been Invested In Content Marketing Technology

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This of course does not include companies like HubSpot who went public last year after raising $100.5M, or companies like Sprinklr or HootSuite who have raised a substantial amount of money ($123.5M https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/hubspot. respectively) but are considered “social media” players by the industry. CrunchBase.

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20 LinkedIn Groups Every Marketer Should Join

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Created: March 3, 2008. Created: September 21, 2007. Created by HubSpot ’s own Dharmesh Shah, the Inbound Marketers group provides tips, tricks, templates, and tutorials for planning and executing on successful inbound marketing strategies. Created: November 12, 2007. Created: February 2, 2008. Marketing.

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9 Reasons Your Marketing Agency's Retainers Aren't Bigger

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When I met Stream Creative (now a Platinum HubSpot Partner) in 2010 at HubSpot's INBOUND event, they told me they had no recurring revenue. It's why I started HubSpot's agency partner program in 2008, and why I've launched an agency partner program at my new company, Databox. Every year, their percentage would go up.

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11 Blockchain Companies You Should Be Paying Attention To

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Founded in 2007 as a mobile app development company, IntellectSoft has evolved into a software solution development company that provides custom software development and consultancy services in emerging technologies, like blockchain, Internet of things, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, cloud computing and more. Intellectsoft.

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How to Train Your Brain to Write More Concisely: 6 Creative Exercises to Try

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For example, let’s take this 175-word paragraph from the “Corporate history” section of HubSpot’s Wikipedia page : HubSpot was founded by Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2006. The company introduced the HubSpot software in beta in 2006 and officially launched it in December 2007.

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#FirstTweet: Proof That You Should Be Open to New Social Networks

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. — Diana Urban (@DianaUrban) April 25, 2008. If it weren''t for Twitter, I never would have been recruited for HubSpot, I wouldn''t have found my literary agent, I wouldn''t have bonded with fellow marketers or authors, and on and on. — John Green (@realjohngreen) December 11, 2008. And look how skeptical I was!