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The future of search is being reinvented with generative AI

VC Cafe

But two years after Google came to the fore in 1998, Google became the number one search engine and “Googling” has become synonymous with web search. In the early days of the web, companies like AltaVista, Excite, WebCrawler and others competed in becoming the search engine of choice.

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On Going Public: SPACs, Direct Listings, Public Offerings, and Access to Private Markets

Ben's Blog

Second, by better matching supply and demand, direct listings have generally mitigated the magnitude of IPO Pops, thus engendering better overall price discovery. 1990-1998 13.3% 22% 1990-1998 13.3% 1990-1998 10% 6.3% Time Period IPO Pop* 1980-1989 6.1% 1999-2000 51.6% Time Period IPO Pop % Above IFR 1999-2000 51.6%

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The Economics of Automation & You

Start Up Blog

Comparing the same General Motors model large sedan in Australia gives us the following cost in real terms: Price when new – 1998 = $25,077 (96% of average annual income)*. The only real question is if we’ll make the investment in ourselves to become what tomorrows market will probably demand. Aust Bureau of Statistics.

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

ReadWriteStart

It even penciled for Google in 1998, and it still worked well enough that Facebook chose to establish its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, in 2004. And as they do so, the demand for high-quality engineering talent is going up exponentially. Ditto for Apple. Toyota is a software company. Johnson and Johnson is a software company.

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The Care And Feeding Of A Startup

YoungUpstarts

A startup is more like Typo Keyboards, which recently engaged ISBX as its software engineering team to help it grow rapidly enough to fill an urgent market demand for Apple’s iPhone 6 buyers. Although a plumbing company may be new but it can’t be considered a startup because it is not designed to grow fast. Startups play in a bigger field.

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Thoughts on our three-speed economy and business planning in the 21st century

The Equity Kicker

These firms have had a significant impact on growth over the last 20 years through the bubbles and crashes they create – e.g. the Long-Term Capital Management crash of 1998, the Dot-Com crash of 2000, and the housing meltdown of 2008.

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

It was 1998 and the internet wasn’t exactly readily available. It sounds simple now, but in 1998 it was unheard of. As I did not have a money cushion I worked for almost a year putting in work during all my lunch breaks and before and after my demanding job. Did the Canucks win their last hockey game? What was happening?