YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 15, 2012

In the world of online search engines, most people stop with the Big Three. For those who like to run off the beaten path or march to the beat of their own search engine, here are ten alternatives to consider the next time you need to find information online. Google, Bing and Yahoo! Search are indisputably the most widely used.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

Technological revolutions follow a similar psychological dynamic. In 2012, most everyone takes the Internet for granted and believes its emergence to be a logical, evolutionary step. A review of the technology press in 1993 and 1994 reveals that almost nobody believed the Internet would be important.

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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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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

Technological revolutions follow a similar psychological dynamic. In 2012, most everyone takes the Internet for granted and believes its emergence to be a logical, evolutionary step. A review of the technology press in 1993 and 1994 reveals that almost nobody believed the Internet would be important.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

The cost of creating new companies is falling rapidly, and access to markets, distribution, and information is within the reach of anyone with an Internet connection. For example, over 25% of the technology companies founded between 1995-2005 had a key immigrant founder. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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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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The Next Web

OCTOBER 20, 2013

Recommendation engines, predictive suggestions, and smart filtering are all at the heart of next-generation user experiences. The technologies that make these features work have a huge future, but entrepreneurs should also consider how they can leverage it in any product they’re working on. Michael Mayernick , Spinnakr. Localization.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

For 1991 I was very technical and also had a lot of practical business implementation experience in technology. My colleagues that graduated with engineering degrees from UCSD were paid $31,000 – 15% more. This was pre Internet. I struggled to get the group to take me – they only took engineers.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

In 1995 Paul started a company that aimed to put art galleries online. Harness the internet to validate your business idea. 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. The difference? They did it better.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

What makes this tricky is that markets evolve, and an innovative technology or business model can transform a normal market into a Glengarry Glen Ross market. Amazon saw that the internet would change retail. If O’Reilly had that same insight in 1995, it could have been an amazing blitzscaling opportunity.

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Ben's Blog

JANUARY 2, 2014

Lately, it’s become in vogue to write articles, comments and tweets about everything that’s wrong with young technology companies. The word technology means “a better way of doing things.” The technology startup world is where brilliant people come to imagine the impossible. George Bernard Shaw. The Computer.

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Ben's Blog

JANUARY 2, 2014

Lately, it’s become in vogue to write articles, comments and tweets about everything that’s wrong with young technology companies. The word technology means “a better way of doing things.” The technology startup world is where brilliant people come to imagine the impossible. George Bernard Shaw. The Computer.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Technology. The Wall Street Journal is phasing out support of the Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser. Internet Explorer. Personal Technology. TECHNOLOGY. Craig Walker, co-founder and CEO of Firespotter Labs, a technology incubator, said it feels unnatural to bestow so much voting power on one executive.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Its not what people learn in classes at MIT and Stanford that has made technology companiesspring up around them. In a technology startup, which most startups are, the foundersshould include technical people. The rulers of the technologybusiness tend to come from technology, not business. Its the same with technology.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

It struck me that had the technology existed, travelers could have taken advantage of our empty aircraft to get back to London and then the aircraft could be dropped in Oxford, with minimal additional cost. The wedding industry is notoriously one of the least technologically advanced retail sectors. Image Credit: Brittany Haas.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

There was also an opportunity to use technology to build a much more efficient business – one that could pass savings from those efficiencies onto borrowers. Internet businesses are harder and harder to name since the dot com is still the leading TLD. A mutual friend connected me in San Francisco with Ori in New York.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 20, 2013

In the last decade, however, that common wisdom has shifted, at least for consumer internet companies. And yet, many of the greatest success stories of the internet era involve founder/professional CEO partnerships. s Tim Koogle helped build Jerry Yang and Dave Filo’s startup into the world’s most valuable internet company.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 17, 2011

I wrote it in 1978 but didn’t self-publish until 1995. Most of the misuse of English grammar and spelling has occurred during the years in which Internet usage became popular. The business end of promoting my work leaves me absolutely cold. My published novel is “Satan’s Caravan, A Victory Over the Adversary.”

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Seeing Both Sides

MAY 26, 2009

  In VC, it’s considered more naturally a young person’s game (perhaps because we’re always dealing with waves of new technology, young founders).    It is scary to reflect on how few of the 7,000 professionals active in the industry today were general partners before Netscape’s IPO in 1995. (3)

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