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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. Starting Adzerk, an Overnight Sensation. 1:33 James Avery, Kevel: Yeah, overnight, meaning I think, what did I start working on?

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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. It’s not quite history, because history is important stuff you learn in school. Kirk Baillie. Mark Littlewood. Kirk Baillie.

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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. And then you end up building multiple products over a number of years, we launched in 2004, we launch Basecamp, and 2005, we launch Ta-da list, and then we launched Backpack in the same year in 2006, we launched Campfire.