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”. 1994 – “Consumers are fickle and unpredictable. Consumer products and services are hit driven, it’s really hard to build a scalable consumer company”. Everything).

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 1, 2013

I believe we’re going to look back in 2-5 years and realize that we’ve been in a once a decade boom for internet & software startups. In the tech sphere, a good bit of air was let out of the tires when the hype around some consumer-facing internet companies proved transitory.

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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”. 1994 – “Consumers are fickle and unpredictable. Consumer products and services are hit driven, it’s really hard to build a scalable consumer company”. Everything).

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug. in December 1996, while on a student visa. I always knew that I would someday start my own company. It was only a question of when, where, and how. I formed SneakerLabs, Inc.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Mr. Fralic has 25 years of technology industry experience, with significant Internet business development roles since 1996. Mr. Kalghatgi is a recovering engineer with several years of experience in front-end design and development focused on mobile and web UX before completing his MBA at Harvard Business School.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

He focuses on investments in fintech, the internet, and software. I’m a partner at TCV, which we founded in 1996. I’m blown away because these are C-suite-type folks who are directors of engineering or heads of engineering who want to hire engineers. The theme of this episode is how to scale unicorns.

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Jeff Hilimire

MARCH 14, 2014

From GI Joes to Beanie Babies, baseball cards, Zippo lighters, comic books and even 1996 Olympic Pins, I was always finding out what was in high demand and determining how to get it for less so I could sell it for more. SalesLoft is the simplest way on the internet to build accurate and targeted lists of prospects.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Amazon saw that the internet would change retail. Google realized that being the way to find the world’s information was a blitzscalable market, thanks to the network effects in its AdWords revenue engine. Thanks to the internet and other globalizing technologies, the entire world has entered the Networked Age.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

During the Internet Bubble there were a number of startups founded by business people who then wentlooking for hackers to create their product for them. We alsothought wed be able to sign up a lot of catalog companies, becauseselling online was a natural extension of their existing business.But in 1996 that was a hard sell.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 17, 2013

DirecTV has supported this feature for some time, initially on the Internet via the browser and more recently via their smartphone application. For each and every Internet company out there, mobile is rising as a percentage of all user visits. Likewise Priceline and Expedia rule travel, not some travel company that exited pre-Internet.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

I don’t think we as busy professionals and Internet junkies know how to sit still and self-reflect. 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. They may [.]. target="_blank">.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Such is its impressiveness, however, that Google released Django as the first supported language on their App Engine cloud computing platform, and a number of Rails developers are starting to transition over. © 1996 - 2010 Reincubate Limited. XML sitemap. VAT registered #867 0159 09.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

I just dont comment. :) Steve, The term was in active use in 1996 in the MMO world, which predates Googles founding. 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. January 7, 2009 9:28 PM Raph said. Eric, I stop by regularly!

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Austin Startup

MAY 21, 2017

Now today that might not seem that revolutionary, in fact you would expect to get most internet services by paying a monthly fee — but back then everyone ran their own servers. After all, I was running it on the computer my parents bought me, in my fraternity house, hooked up to the school’s internet connection. I had no costs!

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Intuitive URL – Legacy companies, which were named before the advent of the Internet and subsequently did not have the financial resources to purchase their company name URLs, are forced to shoehorn their names into URLs they can acquire. However, there is no need for a startup to compromise with respect to its URL.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 25, 2011

Sophisticated Search Engine Optimization is mandatory in our world of Bing / Yandex / Baidu / Google. Your website was created in 1996, updated slightly in 2001, and left to rot ever since. via Theresa] "Websites that deliver in today's fast-paced, mobile-heavy internet market should not been seen as a nice to have!"

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Seeing Both Sides

MAY 26, 2009

Terry co-founded Polaris in 1996 after seven years as a VC at Burr Egan.    Having an NVCA chairman steeped in that world, at a time when the US Government is looking to perform a top-down re-engineering of the health care system, which is projected to make up 20% of GDP in a few years, is good timing indeed. (4)

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ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2016

According to a 1996 HBR article , interactive marketing included “the ability to address an individual and the ability to gather and remember the response of that individual.”. In Traction , they refer to it as Engineering as Marketing , but it’s really just creating interactive tools for people to use.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 26, 2012

For those of you that don’t know, Longreads is a Twitter handle ( @longreads ), and a web service ( www.longreads.com ) that points to the best long form content on the Internet. At its core, it’s an amazingly effective editorial and discovery engine. You wonder how many of these stories never get told (which would seem appropriate).

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