VC Cafe
JUNE 26, 2023
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.
SoCal CTO
OCTOBER 14, 2009
In this era of “open source” everything, open conversations on blogs make a lot of sense. Besides Tony Karrer for software/web development in Los Angeles ;) who are some of your go to people in Los Angeles? It's great to know that you have the radio and TV background. That's great to hear.
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Gust
JUNE 19, 2012
And in January I saw that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. I bought the Diamond Rio mp3 player in 1998. Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars.
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 22, 2012
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. It’s still necessary to imagine the future development (although the trends can help inspire ideas). Napster arrived in June, 1999. Then AI will really take off. (If
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
It launched open API’s and created a platform whereby third-party developers could come build any app they wanted and Facebook didn’t even want (yet) to take any money from them to do so. Twitter seems to have become a bit allergic to third-party developers (or maybe vice-versa).
The Equity Kicker
NOVEMBER 6, 2013
Andrew Chen responded to that with a thoughtful post about how the ‘funding goalposts continue to move’ Here’s the money quote: It’s been widely noted that investing milestones have evolved quickly over time: In 1998, you’d raise $5M Series A with an idea and not much else. In 2004, you’d raise $500k with just an idea.
Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
Startups built every possible feature the founding team envisioned (using “Waterfall development,”) into a monolithic “release” of the product taking months or years to build a first product release. Customer Development , Agile Engineering and the Lean methodology enforced a process of incremental and iterative development.
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