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50 Great Ways To Use QR Codes In The College Classroom

YoungUpstarts

QR codes were first created by Toyota to track vehicles in manufacturing, offering a small barcode that can be quickly decoded. That was 1994, and now, almost 20 years later, QR code technology is experiencing a revival — but not in the automotive industry. With QR codes, you can make it even easier to get in touch.

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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

Feld Thoughts

Secondly, the driver of returns for the funds raised in 1978 – 1981 was not their underlying portfolios, at what stage, or in what industries they were built. As dollars flowed into the industry, cooperation was replaced by competition, to the detriment of deal flow, due diligence, ability to add value and, of course, returns.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

A deep dive into the Foundry Group investment philosophy including an interesting discussion of their investing Themes. “… our lens is: Internet Software Companies anywhere in the U.S. If you are outside internet software we are not going to invest. So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. So if you are outside the U.S.

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Revolution at the Edge

Ben's Blog

A review of the technology press in 1993 and 1994 reveals that almost nobody believed the Internet would be important. Install, upgrade and train people on hard to use slow, ancient-looking enterprise software. Marc released Mosaic in 1993. Keep hand-rolled, brittle server, storage and network infrastructures working reliably.

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Debating the Tech Bubble with Steve Blank: Part I

Ben's Blog

Because Stewart’s programmers are ten times more productive than they were in 2001 due to massive advances in programming language technology. Software is eating the world. Back in 1994, very few people would have predicted that the largest bookseller in the world would be a software company. What is next?

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Revolution at the Edge

Ben's Blog

A review of the technology press in 1993 and 1994 reveals that almost nobody believed the Internet would be important. Install, upgrade and train people on hard to use slow, ancient-looking enterprise software. Marc released Mosaic in 1993. Keep hand-rolled, brittle server, storage and network infrastructures working reliably.

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

Michael Parekh , a Wall Streeter for over 20 years, former Partner at Goldman Sachs, and Founder of its Internet Research effort in 1994, Michael has been living online since the early days of CompuServe in the 80s and AOL in the ’90s. He has been granted two software patents, and has multiple patents pending.