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Prevailing Wisdom

Mucker Lab

1996 – “It’s impossible to get to build a billion dollar company selling widgets at $15 and taking $1 commission one at a time”. 1999 – “The search engine game is over”. 2003 – “The browser war is over, Microsoft has won”. 1994 – “Consumers are fickle and unpredictable. Evernote, Dropbox). Myspace, Facebook). Everything).

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Prevailing Wisdom

Mucker Lab

1996 – “It’s impossible to get to build a billion dollar company selling widgets at $15 and taking $1 commission one at a time”. 1999 – “The search engine game is over”. 2003 – “The browser war is over, Microsoft has won”. (Internet). Evernote, Dropbox). Myspace, Facebook). Everything). 2008 – “RIP, Good Times”.

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The Rise of the Secondary Market for Emerging Growth Equities– Necessary But Insufficient

Pascal's View

i. Pre bubble period 1991-1996 totals $28 billion. ii. Bubble period 1996-2000 totals $243.6 2003: Spitzer’s Global Research Analyst Settlement, which had the unintended effect of depriving small companies from getting research coverage. Amount of venture capital raised has exploded. cents or 6.25

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Which language should my startup use?

www.reincubate.com

Ruby was considered a dead language to all but some system administrators when it was revived in 2003 by 37signals to develop their award-winning productivity startup Basecamp, and then taken on to power Twitter. © 1996 - 2010 Reincubate Limited. framework was built. XML sitemap. VAT registered #867 0159 09.

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Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned

om.co

I had been writing GigaOM (the blog) since December 2001, but in 2003, I started working on a piece for Business 2.0 All those sites used up our meager resources — monetary, design, engineering and intellectual. Met you in 1996 Mr Malik and always knew that you were going to make it and make it big one day. STARTING IT UP.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

Even though I had done it before, I had never heard the term sharding before joining Google (early 2003) so I always thought the term originated there. I just dont comment. :) Steve, The term was in active use in 1996 in the MMO world, which predates Googles founding. January 7, 2009 9:28 PM Raph said. Eric, I stop by regularly!