VC Cafe

JUNE 26, 2023

Until now, to succeed in search companies needed two things: 1) an index of the web 2) an algorithm to organise the results. In the early days of the web, companies like AltaVista, Excite, WebCrawler and others competed in becoming the search engine of choice. Much of it today belongs to Algolia. Finally, there’s competition.

Generative AI 174

Generative AI Search ChatGPT Technical Review 174

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million. The Funding Problem. Today we’re online 3.1

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Social Networking in Web 1.0.

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Social Network Networking Internet EC2 297

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 14, 2009

In 1986 I started an advertising and public relations firm to serve software and hardware companies, which became a marketing consulting business ( www.Allen.com ) when I moved to L.A. In this era of “open source” everything, open conversations on blogs make a lot of sense. That's great to hear. Growing our business!

Los Angeles 150

Los Angeles Networking Southern California Marketing 150

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

By day he works on web and social media for HP. Using just two data points, the modem I had in 1986 and the modem I had in 1998, the spreadsheet predicts that I’d have a 25 megabit/second connection in 2012. I wrote an article for the IEEE Spectrum called The Future of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence is Open.

Artificial Inteligence 182

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Bandwidth Software Review 182

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. At first weexpected our customers to be Web consultants. But most of our users were small, individual merchants who saw the Web as an opportunity to build a business.

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Startup Cofounder Software Stock 105