Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 13, 2011
In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. In 1996 got connected up with Softbank which was investing very aggressively in the U.S. RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I was starting.
Hearpreneur
JULY 1, 2020
So if you were to use Google or any other search engine, your name would be lost in the crowd. I got an engineering degree and worked on various entrepreneurial projects but my heart was always in data science and analytics. When I started my company in 1996 at the age of 20 years old, I decided to name it after the family farm.
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Mucker Lab
MAY 20, 2013
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”. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”. 1994 – “Consumers are fickle and unpredictable.
Mucker Lab
MAY 21, 2013
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”. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”. (Internet). Evernote, Dropbox). Myspace, Facebook).
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
OCTOBER 23, 2012
Freeloader — On $3m invested, sold for $38m in 1996 — shut down in 1997. And the same thing happened after we sold IT WatchDogs in 2005. GroupOn’s engine that turned capital into revenue growth was a form of force-feeding rather than building a product). Support.com — On 2.5m
Duct Tape Marketing
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
So back in 1996 I wanted to start my own business and I asked my mom, “Hey, what businesses could I do from home?” And I think that in the early days it was sort of novel that people had content, and obviously like you said, the search engines didn’t have as much content to chew through so they would surface your content.
Occam's Razor
APRIL 25, 2011
Sophisticated Search Engine Optimization is mandatory in our world of Bing / Yandex / Baidu / Google. " I'd postulated this rule in 2005, it is even more true in 2011. Your website was created in 1996, updated slightly in 2001, and left to rot ever since. Trust me it is a lot less embarrassing that way. The 10/90 rule.
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