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7 Rules For Better Data Protection Compliance

YoungUpstarts

Keep in mind that if you are using a third party data e.g. for database management or bulk mailings and are offering them access to personal data, you need to have a contract in writing with them to be sure that they will treat such data securely, confidentially, and in compliance with the 1998 Data Protection Act.

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I Graduated Into The 2000 DotCom Crash, And It Was The Best Thing To Ever Happen To My Career

Hunter Walker

As became clear quickly: the Stanford Business School Class of 1998 had founded the good Internet 1.0 Feed the left by working on Late Night with Conan O’Brien and be the only one geeking out about an Access database to track guests. But by my graduation in June of 2000, the party had ended.

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Debating the Tech Bubble with Steve Blank: Part I

Ben's Blog

In 1998, I was working at Netscape, which owned well over half of the browser market. LinkedIn is already quickly becoming the world’s recruiting database, and it seems quite logical that there will be only one (who wants to maintain their resume in more than one place?). Thirdly, the market is far bigger.

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20 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Secondly, I took my list of names and searched for each one in the USPTO database to ensure they weren’t infringing on an existing brand name. In 1998, The On-Purpose Business Person was released and also become a best-seller. Thanks to Ashley Bodi, Southern Sunshine ! #16- 16- My best-selling book. Photo Credit: Kevin W.

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Bubble Trouble? I Don’t Think So

Ben's Blog

In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. The inflation-adjusted data from the last bubble tells the story: In the 3-year period from 1998-2000, venture capital firms raised more than $200 billion, which represented about 0.55% of the national GDP.

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15th Annual Brown Entrepreneurship Program Forum

Campus Entrepreneurship

BTW, “The Brown University Entrepreneurship Program (EP) was founded in January 1998 by David Cohen and Evan Geller. Its surprising and not surprising that Brown has been at this for 15 years and its not unexpected that they recently hosted an event providing prizes for bad ideas.

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Fake it Til You (Have To) Make it

Austin Startup

In 1998, five percent of shoes were sold through mail-order catalogues and Swinmurn believed that he could beat those numbers with an online version. By faking it, he confirmed that people would be willing to order shoes online without trying them on.

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