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What I noticed in 2013

Start Up Blog

A terrific piece of evidence for this fact is observing how the technology and business section of the WSJ and New York Times now have a massive overlap. Still waiting for wearables: It feels like we are in early 2000′s phase for smart phones when it comes to wearable computing. A way of communicating.

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RIP Len Fassler

Feld Thoughts

We were introduced in the spring of 1993 by Jim Galvin, CEO of Allcom, which had just been acquired by Len’s company Sage Alerting Systems. It took a while for me and my partner Dave Jilk to decide to do it, but we closed the sale in November 1993. I remember clearly a phone call on 12/1/2000 where Len called me from NYC.

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10 Mom-and-Pop Businesses That Turned Into Empires

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Today, The Bean has approximately 350 company-owned stores, with locations in Southern California, Las Vegas, Honolulu, New York City and Southeast Asia. Darius Bikoff, who distributed his enhanced drinks to health food stores, independent retailers and mom-and-pop stores in the New York area.

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They Can’t Kill You And They Can’t Eat You

Feld Thoughts

I’m sitting at the breakfast table at Len Fassler’s house in Harrison, New York drinking a cup of coffee and chewing on a bagel. At the peak in the spring of 2000 Interliant hit $55 / share and was worth over $3 billion. billion market cap) in the spring of 2000. It’s the summer of 2001. I was exhausted. But he did.

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

In 1993, Word 6.0 In addition to all the new features, the team had another very large objective. Kate is now a product leader at Shutterstock in New York City. The year was 2000, and the hardest part about the AdWords project was simply getting agreement that they could work on it.

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

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1993 ; Moriarty & Scheiner, 1984 ; Poulton, 1965 ; Coghill, 1980) ). Sassoon, 1993 ; Rubinstein, 1988 ). 2000-2001 , Tullis et al., Usability News 2.2 There are plenty of studies that show no difference between the legibility of serif and sans serif typefaces ( Tinker, 1932 ; Zachrisson, 1965 ; Bernard et al.,

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Boom and Bust and What Comes Next

Scalable Startup

By all accounts, the first one burst in 2000 when the NASDAQ crash brought the first dot-com era to a close. is mostly sanguine, claiming that the market’s standards for viability have increased since the 2000 bust and citing Twitter (revenue but no profit) as the model for the new public tech company.