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Take Your Show on the Road

Harvard Business Review

Cisco Systems, known for its digital telephone switches and routers, had four 25-foot vans touring the country from 2004 to 2011 , to events put on by its channel partners. So if you’re in a B2B business – and perhaps even if it’s B2C – spend some time thinking about an idea that keeps coming up in competitive simulation exercises.

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The Secrets to TripAdvisor's Impressive Scale

Harvard Business Review

Going B2C was daunting and not in our core DNA," Kaufer remarked. The company agreed to be acquired by Expedia/IAC in 2004 for $210 million in cash , a huge win for all, particularly given their amazing capital efficiency: they had only raised $4 million in venture capital. billion market capitalization as of this writing.

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