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Ben's Blog
JUNE 28, 2011
Before my partner Marc Andreessen and his friends at the University of Illinois invented the browser in 1993, most people thought only scientists and researchers would use the Internet. The Internet was thought to be too arcane, insecure and slow to meet real business needs. The implications of the propriety vision were not good.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 20, 2010
In the early days of the Internet as an advertising medium the industry organized to create “standard ad units&# for which most media companies would sell their inventory. The standards were set by the IAB ( Interactive Advertising Bureau ), which was founded in 1996. I’m forwarding it to all of my portfolio companies).
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Lightspeed Venture Partners
NOVEMBER 12, 2015
I didn’t know anything about the internet, but I knew that he was a very smart guy, so I called him and asked if I could come. He said yes, so I found myself in Los Angeles during the first internet boom. These are some “smart and scrappy founders” he told me, keep an eye on them.
Lightspeed Venture Partners
NOVEMBER 12, 2015
I didn’t know anything about the internet, but I knew that he was a very smart guy, so I called him and asked if I could come. He said yes, so I found myself in Los Angeles during the first internet boom. These are some “smart and scrappy founders” he told me, keep an eye on them.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 12, 2017
https://medium.com/media/cc969482e7abf6b75d3c0958c8ee409d/href I moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and as a VC who had built his career as a programmer, database designer, program manager, CEO then VP Products at Salesforce, I wanted to build a portfolio of software investments. Back then there were “email forwards.” Video is the new HTML.”
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