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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

We’re now in the second Internet bubble. VC’s worked with entrepreneurs to build profitable and scalable businesses, with increasing revenue and consistent profitability – quarter after quarter. With Netscape’s IPO , there was suddenly a public market for companies with limited revenue and no profit. Carpe Diem.

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How The 5G Revolution Emerged And How It Will Give Business A Boost

YoungUpstarts

3G emerged from the growth of the internet during the 1990s , which created a demand for mobile phones that could support both SMS texting and multimedia MMS transmission of image, sound and video files. The introduction of 3G in between 1998 and 2003 brought 200 Kbps speeds, four times faster than 3G.

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What if it’s 1996, not 1999?

Seeing Both Sides

million in revenue the year before. . But if that observation led them to refrain from investing in the Internet sector, they would have missed one of the most stunning legal creations of wealth in history. Matrix had a fund in 1998 that yielded an eye-popping 514+% IRR. We had recorded $1.8

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: Akamai

Seeing Both Sides

Many people know Akamai as the purveyor of the Internet’s backbone. Incorporated in 1998 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company’s network of over 100,000 globally distributed servers provides an infrastructure layer that accelerates the distribution and delivery of content, media and applications. How did Akamai do it? . .

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL. It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. AOL was closed, the Internet was open. And then came AOL.

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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?

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

At Blurb, we’ve built an Internet platform for people to produce their own bookstore-quality books. In March of 2009 EliteEditing.com launched, and I would run back and forth to an Internet café five blocks from my office to manage work coming through and to take business calls. That’s it. That’s what we do.