Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). I got my start programming on an old IBM XT; it was thanks to MUDs that I first discovered the internet. Thanks to the anonymity of the internet , I landed a few jobs, and did quite a bit of writing. Expo SF (May.

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Software By Rob

APRIL 7, 2009

A Look Back at the Internet ’96 – A short walk through the Internet Archive. Makes Fresno Web Design look like something out of 37Signals. The iPhone as Web Server – I’m racking my brain…trying to figure out a use for this. at 4:58 pm The iPhone web server has one calling.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Amazon saw that the internet would change retail. O’Reilly’s article describes two businesses from his own career at O’Reilly—the Global Network Navigator (GNN) web portal, which he sold to AOL, and the Website web server, which eventually fell by the wayside. On the other hand, web servers are not a blitzscalable market.

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BeyondVC

MAY 18, 2007

I first met David in 1996 when he made his move from offline to online advertising as my prior fund invested in the initial round of 24/7. Looking back, one could easily say that is a no brainer, but if you lived through the bubble you have to remember how the Internet was a dirty word. Wow-what a past couple of days!

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Board Effect

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Once you’ve posted something on the internet, it can go viral within seconds, leaving no room for a do-over. Anything you post on the world wide web can live on for infamy. Announce your nonprofit’s role when another user uses the nonprofit’s name elsewhere on the web. The same principle works in social media posting.

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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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YoungUpstarts

MAY 12, 2014

by Forbes magazine publisher Rich Karlgaard and author of “ The Soft Edge: Where Great Companies Find Lasting Success “ Avid market watchers know that the last two months have been devastating to fast-growth Internet stocks. A Berkshire Hathaway Chairman’s Letter from 1996 underlines that point.

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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. A recent Compuware survey found that 85% of users favor apps over the mobile web.

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Software By Rob

MAY 4, 2009

Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself. 4 iWeb Blog » Nouvelles Techno iWeb: marketing web, f.lux, micro-entrepreneuriat on 05.05.09

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aweissman.com

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

With every mistake we must surely be learning I was having breakfast this morning with a new friend who happened to come of Internet age when I did with a similar set of experiences (he was one of the first 50 employees of Yahoo). How would we navigate this wide open possibilities of the web? Webrings - my favorite of all.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 25, 2011

Because you believe that the Web is essentially TV? Not following the "10/90 rule for magnificent web success." If you have $100 to make smart decisions on the web, invest $10 in tools, spend $90 on people. Web Analytics, 4Q, KissInsights, Insights for Search, AdPlanner, and all the other glorious free tools.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 12, 2009

  Ever since, he has been using the phone to take pictures nonstop, send emails and SMS messages, stay connected to Facebook, and surf the web looking for the latest news or directions.   If anything, I see wireless as just a natural extension of any web-based product or service. 

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aweissman.com

APRIL 14, 2010

It delivered monetization through its pricing scheme: users paid AOL for Internet access by the hour ($6.95 The Internet business changed, completely, in 1996 when the AT&T WorldNet Service began offering"all-you-eat" (u nlimited access) pricing for Internet access. The platform succeeded. Until it didnt.

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Austin Startup

MAY 21, 2017

I really wanted to get the web server for the Mac called WebSTAR so that I could host websites. 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. That was the software that everyone wanted at the time.

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BeyondVC

OCTOBER 18, 2007

I never made it to the Web 2.0 After a Nokia boat cruise with many of the team that launched the awesome Nokia Internet 810 tablet (I will get myself one of those), I had the opportunity to go to a MySpace party to celebrate the opening of their San Francisco office. conference yesterday, and you know how I feel about that label :-).

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Nicholas Carr wrote The Shallows , an incredible book on what the Internet is doing to our brains. That research was conducted all the way back in 1996. But Web users are generally in such a hurry that they routinely miss subtle cues.” (via Don’t Make Me Think). Similarly, we can’t use rate pressure product.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

In fact, 2010 venture capital fundraising is at the same level as it was in 1995 and 1996. The Long Awaited Arrival of the Internet Boom. The short answer is that the expectations of the great Internet boom vastly outstripped the actual activity. The total Consumer Internet market was 55 million people.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

They had three new ideas: index more of the Web, uselinks to rank search results, and have clean, simple web pages withunintrusive keyword-based ads. 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. This doesnt work well.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2016

The web is an inherently interactive medium, so there are infinite ways to implement interactivity onto your site. 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.”. Of course, it’s not a silver bullet strategy.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

ColdFusion occupied a niche for rapid web development since the late 90s, and its legacy consists of around ten very vocal agencies and developers, some of whom are moving slowly to.NET. Languages like Tcl -- which powered Vignette s CMS products in the dotcom heyday -- are now rather unusual in web development.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, January 4, 2009 Sharding for startups The most important aspect of a scalable web architecture is data partitioning. This is true of most web application servers, caches like memcached, and all of the network infrastructure that connects them. what is your company web site or email address?

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 26, 2012

Over the past several years, I have become a huge fan of Mark Armstrong’s web service, Longreads. 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. Scamworld by Joseph Flatley (The Verge).

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The Next Web

JULY 15, 2012

Gonzo is a passionate internet entrepreneur who has been doing business online since 1996. In 2007 he started KillerStartups.com : ‘Where Internet Entrepreneurs Are The Stars’ We acquired the domain name Startups.com a few years back. .” Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Gonzo Arzuaga. ” Argh!

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www.rhymer.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Ten crucial questions when naming your business, product, or Web site: Who are my consumers? Ten crucial questions when naming your business, product, or Web site. Ten crucial questions when naming your business, product, or Web site. © 1996-2011 WriteExpress Corporation. FREE Stationery Templates. FREE Naming.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 22, 2011

I’m an Internet infopreneur. I’m an infopreneur who uses the Internet as a medium for distributing and monetizing information. My Internet Infopreneur’s Journey The year was 1995, and the Internet had just come to India. I built my first website in 1996. Consuming quickly led to creating.

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ConversionXL

MAY 31, 2017

The first wave of messaging software arrived with ICQ (launched in 1996), followed by AIM (1997), Yahoo! According to Mary Meeker’s 2016 Internet Trends Report , 6 of the world’s top 10 most used apps are messaging apps. web chat, or a real-time messaging tool that can be accessed via your website and/or in-app).

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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. I tried to find it on the Web and I couldn’t either. Before you read this, please be aware that this was written in 1996 - that is 15 years ago.

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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. I tried to find it on the Web and I couldn’t either. Before you read this, please be aware that this was written in 1996 - that is 15 years ago.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 12, 2009

Front End Developer Resume, An 11-pound Notebook, A 2-pound Netbook, and Internet 1996 → How Third-Party Licensing Can Ruin Your Launch Micropreneurship , Startups If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place. Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed.

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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. Copyright © 2007-9 by J.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 13, 2012

Here’s a recap on the keynote, as well as some of the presentation and panel sessions: Trends, Fads & Transformation: The Impact of the Internet. State of the Internet & Lessons Learnt in the Digital Measurement Trenches of Online Advertising in Southeast Asia.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

After college, I was a very early employee at a web company called Tumblr. I have been involved in startups since I graduated from college in 1996. It’s a web-based time tracking system. My name is John Bates. I’m the CEO of Executive Speaking Success and I’m a long-time entrepreneur. in prosthetics.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

For those too young to remember perhaps the best known of this era came in 1996 and was known as Dancing Baby , a strange, animated gif of — you guessed it. It’s no longer necessarily just a long-form, audio on format — it’s becoming part of the fabric of the Internet. Back then there were “email forwards.” Video is the new HTML.”

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