1996 Business Model Distribution Internet 
Reid Hoffman
MARCH 19, 2019
Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. Amazon saw that the internet would change retail. Nowhere in our book do we recommend that all entrepreneurs blitzscale.
Seeing Both Sides
AUGUST 3, 2012
Facebook and Google would be obvious choices for this, but so much has been written about each of them and they represent such special business models, I worried that it would be both hard for entrepreneurs to relate and hard for me to develop new insights. Many people know Akamai as the purveyor of the Internet’s backbone.
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aweissman.com
APRIL 14, 2010
Indeed you can still see today he uses the same modified AOL logo he used back then: As a platform, this worked precisely because AOL provided the two key components every platform must deliver to create value: distribution , and monetization. AOL offered distribution through its thousands and then millions of users. Until it didnt.
BeyondVC
JANUARY 12, 2009
Through various forms I have been involved from an investment perspective in wireless-related companies since 1996 when I made an investment in a company called AirMedia. It raised an additional $30mm of venture capital after we invested and subsequently was long on buzz but short on customer adoption.
Ben's Blog
APRIL 28, 2010
But remember that when Jobs returned to Apple in 1996, he was doing so as the co-founder and CEO of NeXT computer, a marginal computer workstation company which Apple purchased for less than $500M. Despite this dynamic history, modern record company executives badly missed the most sweeping technical innovation—the Internet.
K9 Ventures
AUGUST 12, 2011
Fifteen years ago, in 1996, while I was still a student at Carnegie Mellon University , I wrote an article (blog post in today’s parlance) about the future of computing. After a little bit of digging through old backups, I found a folder with drafts of a couple of my old articles/paper from 1996. Sunday, May 05, 1996.
K9 Ventures
AUGUST 12, 2011
Fifteen years ago, in 1996, while I was still a student at Carnegie Mellon University , I wrote an article (blog post in today’s parlance) about the future of computing. After a little bit of digging through old backups, I found a folder with drafts of a couple of my old articles/paper from 1996. Sunday, May 05, 1996.
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