K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

More recently, Eric Ries and Dave McClure added fuel to the fire (See Eric Ries’ blog post: Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet) and helped kick off a campaign on @ 2Gov. 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.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2016

Javier : … the entrepreneurial engine of the United States is bar none the most efficient wealth creation and job creation tool that has ever existed. … . Hillary has been working to make government more accessible and available online for nearly two decades, starting as a web designer for Arkansas.gov in 1997.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Publishers and authors (like O’Reilly and us) also benefit from Amazon’s success.

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Up and Running

APRIL 5, 2021

By 1997, the pop-up plague had spread to sites across the net, including Geocities, AOL, and The New York Times. This is particularly useful before search engines pick up new pages and display them in organic search results. One of the key driving factors for any ad campaign, but particularly for pop-ups, is context.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2012

brrhodes : IceRocket search engine founder and CEO Blake Rhodes tweets about his insights into social media and the online world. nancylublin : Nancy Lublin is the CEO of Do Something, sharing her work in national cause campaigns for teens. FuelOnline : Fuel CEO Scott Levy has been working in social media and SEO since 1997.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Warren Buffet, 1997. Paypal famously offered customers $5 to invite a friend, who would then also get $5 as part of a highly successful viral marketing campaign (they actually started at $20, and then reduced it to $10 and then ended at $5). Marketing 101: Customers love free stuff. Sounds too good to be true?

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