1998 Design Internet Open Source 
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet. It preceded the WWW but then become the onramp to the Internet for newbies. When Time Warner & AOL merged it was widely feared that this would be a monopoly that would control the Internet. For a nanosecond Rupert Murdoch seemed like the smartest guy on the Internet.
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 22, 2012
We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet. I looked at the future predictions for “modem speed” (as I called it back then, today we’d called it internet connection speed or bandwidth). Gene Kim laughed at my prediction. Napster arrived in June, 1999.
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Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
We’re now in the second Internet bubble. Over time, open source software the rise of the next wave of web startups and the embrace of Agile Engineering meant that startups no longer needed millions of dollars to buy specialized computers and license expensive software – they could start a company on their credit cards.
www.paulgraham.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
During the Internet Bubble there were a number of startups founded by business people who then wentlooking for hackers to create their product for them. Some believe only businesspeople can do this-- that hackers can implement software, but not design it. Back in 1998 our CFOtried to talk me into it. This doesnt work well.
Scalable Startup
MAY 16, 2015
Until recently Showplace Square’s post-quake red-brick warehouses were home to furniture and interior design showrooms, but soon, if the real estate developers have their way and the tech economy continues to expand, they will be converted to offices filled with even more “techies.” The first page results of a search for “tech 2.0
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