Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

The biggest happened much earlier in my career, in 1995.”. I’m sure it sounds unbelievable today, but in 1995, Fujitsu was a much bigger company than Apple in those days. Because of the Internet — and especially because of the World Wide Web — things were starting to move very quickly in Silicon Valley in 1995.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

In 1995, I was the only one of my friends using email and there were no cell phones. In general, at the time, you had to be an engineer to even think about creating a website. You didn’t need a hardcore engineer to set up a website for you, but you still could not do it on your own. A look at how CMS evolved.

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Mike Michalowicz

APRIL 6, 2015

Field Engineer for Bendix, Magnavox, Harris. Invented first commercial web cam software, SnapNSend, in 1995. Our Guest Graduated BSEE University of Southern California 1965 Field Engineer for Bendix, Magnavox, Harris. Graduated BSEE University of Southern California 1965.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 10, 2022

Beginning in 1995 as BackRub, Google slowly and steadily began to conquer the world. Google was initially meant to be a search engine and today the company has ventured into wearable technology, renewable energy, mobile phones, and other web applications. When it comes to innovation, Google has left every company behind it.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The Golden Age (1970 – 1995): Build a growing business with a consistently profitable track record (after at least 5 quarters,) and go public when it’s time. Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 3, 2015

During the Cold War with the Soviet Union, science and engineering at both Stanford and U.C. Starting in the 1950’s, Stanford’s engineering department became “outward facing” and developed a culture of spinouts and active faculty support and participation in the first wave of Silicon Valley startups. . In fact, it works globally.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

A CEO brought in from a large company came with all the big company accoutrements – org charts, HR departments with formal processes and procedure handbooks, formal waterfall engineering methodology, sales compensation plans, etc. In 1995 Netscape changed the rules about going public.

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

Reporting in the Harvard Business Review on a major study of growth stalls they conducted, Olson and his colleagues cite the case of the iconic brand Levi Strauss, which hit a historic high mark of sales in 1995, reaching revenue of $7 billion, but then, starting in 1996, saw a decline in sales so precipitous that by 2000, revenue was down to $4.6

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

In 1995, while in high school, Seth wanted to start a business scanning paper documents for companies, but realized it was a non-starter when he learned that a scanner costs $4k. He grew up in Connecticut attended Yale undergrad and worked for IBM after graduation doing M&A, strategy and venture capital.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

A lot of the courses offered are within the STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) realm, but there are a number of arts and humanities courses as well as courses of interest to small business owners in entrepreneurship, finance, and careers. Best of all? It offers all of its courses free of charge. ” Lynda.com.

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Up and Running

JUNE 29, 2010

That’s for questions about starting up, establishing ownership, finding financing, dealing with permits and legal requirements, even online marketing and search engine optimization. Disclosure: I’ve been working with SBDCs since 1995, as part of what I do at Palo Alto Software.

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Steve Blank

MAY 13, 2015

All three of my guests started their careers as scientists or engineers and ended up starting companies or venture capital firms. As one of the first women VC’s in Silicon Valley she founded Foundation in 1995, and went on to be selected for the Midas List based on her investments. What were you glad you didn’t know?

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2018

Yes, from 1995! If you are in this category, know that the last “secret” of ecommerce is that figuring out how to weaponize shipping – and free returns – is a powerful conversion increasing engine. Yes, from 1995! Life of current price. Direct competitor comparisons. Delivery times based on geo/IP/mobile phone location.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

“Provigent is a unique asset with world-class microwave backhaul technology and strong engineering talent developing innovative and highly integrated semiconductor solutions for the microwave segment.&# – Rajiv Ramaswami, executive VP at Broadcom. Unemployment fell to 6.1% Unemployment had dropped as low as 5.9%

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 8, 2018

He went on to work at IBM for almost 17 years and served as a programmer at several major financial firms before launching Craigslist from his apartment in 1995 as a way to share information. The son of a computer scientist and a programmer, Page earned degrees in computer engineering and computer science on his path to entrepreneurship.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

In the late year of 1995, IBM acquired Lotus Development, makers of the Lotus 123 spreadsheet and a proprietary Internet predecessor, Lotus Notes, for $3.5B—more The people of IT—CIOs, network engineers, system administrators, IT developers and their brethren—get captured and held hostage by the technological dictators.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

A lot of the courses offered are within the STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) realm, but there are a number of arts and humanities courses as well as courses of interest to small business owners in entrepreneurship, finance, and careers. Best of all? It offers all of its courses free of charge. ” Lynda.com.

Programming 48

Programming Technical Review Small Business Illinois 48

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 2, 2017

And according to Levy, Pixar’s success in 1995 was a result of the company’s adoption of its own Middle Way. As these same engineers admit, it is no longer about the Founding Fathers of Silicon Valley (like Jobs and Levy) and their previous generation hippie tendencies.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Startup Priorities: Is Design More Important Than Engineering? Immigrants founded 7000 tech co’s from 1995-2006 – [link]. Management Secrets of the Grateful Dead – [link]. Micro marketing: 5 tips for small business and startups – [link]. – [link]. How Do You Reference Check a VC?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

For example, over 25% of the technology companies founded between 1995-2005 had a key immigrant founder. For example, over 25% of the technology companies founded between 1995-2005 had a key immigrant founder. Substantial research shows that immigrants play a key role in American job creation.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 16, 2018

The head of Google Boulder (I think his official title in Googlespeak is “Engineering Site Director”) is Scott Green. I’ve known Scott since shortly after I moved to Boulder in 1995. As of a few weeks ago, NCWIT now has a great long-term home in an older Google office on 26th Street in Boulder off of the CU Campus.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2017

RankSense was designed to use AI to simplify search engine optimization (SEO) for small businesses and get companies noticed. . Morebeer.com is a homebrew equipment supplier that started as a mail order company back in 1995.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

In the late year of 1995, IBM acquired Lotus Development, makers of the Lotus 123 spreadsheet and a proprietary Internet predecessor, Lotus Notes, for $3.5B—more The people of IT—CIOs, network engineers, system administrators, IT developers and their brethren—get captured and held hostage by the technological dictators.

Romania 44

Romania Software Review Cloud Mobile 44

Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2014

Being a physicist-turned-engineer, I have very little experience working with anything but men. My first IPO wasn’t until 1995—the VC business takes patience. So I started Foundation Capital in 1995. I was working and competing with men daily. And successfully. And the truth is, I like working with men. Find Your Obession.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

My colleagues that graduated with engineering degrees from UCSD were paid $31,000 – 15% more. I had a friend who joined at the same time with an engineering degree from the same university as me and held jobs in the restaurant sector in college. I struggled to get the group to take me – they only took engineers.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

We know that small businesses have engineering teams of infinitesimal size compared to Amazon, Google, and the like. Starting a business might seem especially daunting in the face of the Amazons of the world, but remember that Jeff Bezos started in his garage in 1995. And it was centered around what human beings wanted.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

” Here’s the summary of his track record (excerpted from the Fast Company article): Forefront — IPO’ed in 1995 by CBT — CBT stock fell 85% in 1998 and prompted class-action lawsuits. GroupOn’s engine that turned capital into revenue growth was a form of force-feeding rather than building a product).

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Africa Travel was established over 25 years ago, so there was no such thing as search engine optimisation back then. However, we have found our name to be a valuable asset in the world of SEO; the name itself is a keyword that our customers search for, making it easy for us to rank in the search engine results.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Pierre Omidyar founded AuctionWeb in September of 1995, and its rise to fame is legendary. Hipcamp (*) was founded in 2013 by Alyssa Ravasio as an engine to search across the dozens and dozens of State and National park websites for campsite availability. Exchange of Goods Marketplaces.

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Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

When we started the company it was only web-based and we thought that the best idea would be simply to call it by the website address (driving tests), particularly seeing as the main marketing strategy was search engine optimization, we secured a domain name that was an exact match keyword for what it does and everything was self-service.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 1, 2013

At the application layer you have a massive shift of on-prem software going SaaS, a trend started over a decade ago with Salesforce but accelerating dramatically in recent years across nearly every software category ( HR – Workday, Marketing – Eloqua, Marketo, Marin Software, ExactTarget, Engineering/IT - Rally Software, ServiceNow).

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IPO Cloud Valuation Mobile 147

The Next Web

OCTOBER 20, 2013

Recommendation engines, predictive suggestions, and smart filtering are all at the heart of next-generation user experiences. As my co-founder likes to say, augmented reality today is equivalent to the Internet in 1995. Predictive data. Big data was all about the storage and processing of large data sets. Michael Mayernick , Spinnakr.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

In 1995 Paul started a company that aimed to put art galleries online. At first, Google seemed like a bad idea; there were already several search engines doing what they did. Simply put, it’s not solving a real-life problem. That said, even renowned founders and investors like Paul Graham have made mistakes. The difference?

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2013

Since joining DriveSavers in 1995, Bross has engineered his way around physical trauma, mechanical damage and encryption issues found on all types of failed storage devices to successfully recover millions of byes of lost digital data for customers around the world.

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Small Business Reputation Security Software 133

YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2017

Michael Beattie , who launched MBM Consulting in 1995, knows full well the special combination of training, skills and, importantly, mindset it takes to succeed. Success as an entrepreneur takes a lot more than an idea, a dab of seed money and, as they say, a wing and a prayer. He’s spent over 20 years nurturing them all. The end result?

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 3, 2010

In 1995, when Amazon was founded, e-commerce was like the proverbial talking dog. We got everything from price comparison engines to aggregated user reviews to one-click checkout. Putting fun into ecommerce. It wasn’t about how well the dog could talk, it was amazing that the dog could talk at all.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 26, 2023

#7- Steve Jobs' Biography Photo Credit: Josh Riutta A movie that inspires me is the biographical of Steve Jobs, who was initially neither a computer programmer, marketer, nor engineer, but without whom Apple would not exist. It explains the series of events that took place before the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa.

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