YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

3) What drives your economic engine. He mentioned that Gillette started faltering in 1998 when its leadership became distracted by non-core projects in the book. Courtesy of Good to Great ( image source ). Disciplined Action. a) Good-to-great companies closely follow a strong Culture of Discipline.

Technical Review 159

Technical Review Merger Valuation Framework 159

Andrew Payne

JULY 28, 2014

The Court of Justice of the EU ruled Google had to remove search results linking to a 1998 newspaper article about the foreclosure of his home (due to unpaid debts he later paid). In the ultimate irony, he’s now permanently and wide remembered for precisely what he wanted everyone to forget (the Streisand Effect ).

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Technical Review Search Engineer Internet 49

Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

In the startup world, one of the most important parts of building a network for non-technical entrepreneurs is getting to know brilliant engineers and technologists. The Harvard Business School’s business plan competition has been running since 1998; the only competition winner that has achieved any sustained success is Cloudflare (2009).

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

In the startup world, one of the most important parts of building a network for non-technical entrepreneurs is getting to know brilliant engineers and technologists. The Harvard Business School’s business plan competition has been running since 1998; the only competition winner that has achieved any sustained success is Cloudflare (2009).

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 9, 2011

Shechtman, who was born in Tel Aviv in 1941, had previously been awarded the Israel Prize in Physics in 1998 and the Wolf Prize in Physics a year later. Monsanto is the leading producer of genetically engineered (GE) seed and provides the technology in 90% of the genetically engineered seeds used in the US market.

Argentina 90

Argentina Paraguay Uruguay 90

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 2, 2011

She was the former CTO of Cisco Systems from 1998-2000, and is on the boards of Disney and Packet Design and was a board member at Sun and FedEx for many years. Estrin has hired numerous engineers over her career, but has found, to no surprise, that it is "harder to find technical women , especially in computer science.

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CTO Hire Startup Algorithm Leadership 118

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 4, 2010

The irony is that in a retrospective paper ten years later (1998), [ 2 ] the authors backed off from their claims. In 1998 Goto.com , a small startup (later Overture, now part of Yahoo ! ), created the pay per click search engine and advertising system and demo’d it at the TED conference. By then it was too late. Golder and G.

Silicon Valley 317

Silicon Valley Differentiation United States Customer Development 317

Growthink Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

After my column a few months ago regarding Jeff Bezos' now famous (and incredibly profitable) investment into Google in 1998, I was deluged with comments and opinions on this question - was his investment luck or was it foresight? Remember this was 1998 not 1994. million shares of Google stock. Invest in People. Alta Vista. Webcrawler.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Florida-based ProductionHUB is a search engine for media and entertainment serving film, television, video, live event and digital media production. Searching through pages of crew and production services on another site used to be incredibly time consuming. Just this past week, we used ProductionHUB to find gear and crew in Athens, Greece!”.

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Search Media Greece Product 154

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

While you dialed AOL to get on the Internet, the goal of AOL was to keep you locked into their proprietary content and thus earned the classification of “walled garden.&# They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc.

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Social Network Networking Internet EC2 297

Hunter Walker

APRIL 5, 2023

Perhaps the most well-known example in our industry is the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) which provided safe harbor to Internet businesses around copyright infringement performed by their end users so long as several preconditions were met (such as direct financial benefit, knowledge of infringing materials, and so on).

Artificial Inteligence 63

Artificial Inteligence Framework Aggregator China 63

Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Bobby Schnabel has returned to CU Boulder as the College of Engineering and Applied Science faculty director for entrepreneurial leadership , external chair of computer science, and campus thought-leader on computing.

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Indiana Colorado Cofounder Community 73

Up and Running

APRIL 27, 2015

However, one area where he fell short was in ignoring the search engine market. While Microsoft introduced MSN Search in 1998, the site purely used an existing search engine, Inktomi, to gather results. In 2009, Microsoft introduced Bing, but it has never measured up to the popularity of Google.

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Technical Review Mexico Cofounder Angel Investor 60

K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug. Towards the end of my OPT (mid 1998) is when the H1-B visa cap issue hit. I always knew that I would someday start my own company. It was only a question of when, where, and how.

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United States Founder India Venture Capital 114

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Nowadays nearly every online shop utilizes some sort of product recommendation engine, which is no wonder, as these systems, if set up and configured properly can significantly boost revenues, CTRs, conversions, and other important metrics. What is a recommendation engine, exactly? How Recommendation Engines Benefit Sites.

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Conversion Product Technical Review Widget 48

Austin Startup

APRIL 26, 2020

Then in 1998 along came a tiny company in Los Gatos, California named Netflix. a recommendation engine). And the Blockbuster name became synonymous with late fees. The power of word of mouth cemented their reputation. But Blockbuster’s competitors had similar bad-profit policies, so you learned to live with it. It worked, big time.

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Technical Review Campaign Video Naming 62

Diego Basch

MARCH 4, 2011

A few months later the first mp3 search engines start to pop up. I think I can create one that’s better, and it becomes my personal summer project in 1998. Long story short, Inktomi acqui-hired me and my puny search engine software (not the site, which earned me some nice cash on the side from ads).

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 8, 2016

In 1998, when I started ending up with lots of shares in public Internet companies, I came up with a formulaic approach for any public equities that are distributed to me (either from our funds or other VC funds). And, for the last category (the shares I own personally), I still use the long-term formulaic approach I came up with in 1998.

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Flash Equity Stock Finance 70

Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2018

We have been also working with our engineering team since SayYeah in 2015. I started my first business back in 1998 when I was 17; Skipworth was my first digital record label. Sceenic is the result of the learnings to do with co-viewing of SayYeah back in 2013-15. What other startups have team members been involved with?

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Startup Germany Poland Argentina 48

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 25, 2019

Strong education, as well as engineering standards, are mixing with pioneerdom. Following 1998, the economy was completely restructured. Israel is the leading powerhouse for innovation and pioneering technologies, offering those interested the chance to have it all. It is common knowledge that startups are currently soaring in Russia.

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Russia China United Kingdom 113

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

VC’s engineered financial transactions, working with entrepreneurs to brand, hype and take public un profitable companies with grand promises of the future. Customer Development , Agile Engineering and the Lean methodology enforced a process of incremental and iterative development. Thus began the 5-year dot-com bubble. The New Exits.

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Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

Mucker Lab

MAY 20, 2013

1998 – “There is no room for personal productivity software startups – Microsoft will eat your lunch when you get big enough and Symantec will take the crumbs”. 1999 – “The search engine game is over”. (Internet). Evernote, Dropbox). 2002 – “the social network fad is over”. Myspace, Facebook).

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Widget Sales Cycle Social Network Government 76

rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. He picked engineers who were technically-driven but not entrepreneurially-driven. He picked engineers who weren’t comfortable taking risks as great as he wanted to take.

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Software Engineering Fractional CTO 42

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

” Here’s the summary of his track record (excerpted from the Fast Company article): Forefront — IPO’ed in 1995 by CBT — CBT stock fell 85% in 1998 and prompted class-action lawsuits. GroupOn’s engine that turned capital into revenue growth was a form of force-feeding rather than building a product).

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IPO Flash Bootstrapping Private Equity 240

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Popular games like the Lineage IP, released by NCSoft in 1998, has generated over $4 Billion in revenue over its lifetime, most of it driven by its mobile version. New” infrastructure such as Fortnite’s unreal engine or Unity will become a critical technology enabler for many companies across different sectors.

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Global Revenue Mobile IP 131

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

But nine months after the first call was made in 1998, Iridium was in Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Second, since it knew the solution, it went into a 8 -year Waterfall engineering development process. Seven years after it was founded their satellites and ground stations were in place. It was a technical tour de force. What went wrong?

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Business Plan Customer Business Model Customer Development 335

Mucker Lab

MAY 21, 2013

1998 – “There is no room for personal productivity software startups – Microsoft will eat your lunch when you get big enough and Symantec will take the crumbs”. 1999 – “The search engine game is over”. (Internet). Evernote, Dropbox). 2002 – “the social network fad is over”. Myspace, Facebook).

Widget 60

Widget Sales Cycle Social Network Government 60

VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

The acquisition of PBM adds another growth engine for Perrigo, which already has a 75% share of the store brand over the counter (OTC) drug market in the US. and was founded in 1998. Since 2003 the global market for children’s nutrition and infant formula products has nearly doubled reaching about $23 billion in 2009.

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OTC Brazil Paraguay 68

thebarefootvc

JANUARY 13, 2014

Steve Jobs famously said in a 1998 BusinessWeek interview: “It’s really hard to design products by focus group. Google is known as a data driven company – everything from its early hiring process to decision making shows its reliance on data.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Cofounder Acquisition 94

Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

in 1998 and eventually became Yahoo!Store. At first, Google seemed like a bad idea; there were already several search engines doing what they did. Here’s a tiny slice of the pie to give you an idea of what those problems are or were: Viaweb – Paul’s own company which allowed users to make their own online stores. Sold to Yahoo!

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Startup Silicon Valley Cofounder Non-Compete 80

Growthink Blog

APRIL 27, 2010

After my column a few months ago regarding Jeff Bezos' now famous (and incredibly profitable) investment into Google in 1998, I was deluged with comments and opinions on this question - was his investment luck or was it foresight? Remember this was 1998 not 1994. million shares of Google stock. Invest in People. Alta Vista. Webcrawler.

IPO 59

IPO Stock California Engineer 59

Up and Running

JUNE 5, 2012

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a great way to improve a website’s ranking in popular search engines. That type of search engine authority is invaluable for driving organic traffic to your business site. This is because search engines are very protective of their various search algorithms. Tweak it with Keywords.

SEO 86

SEO Miami Engineer Search 86

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 10, 2011

In 1998, Google was the new kid in an established (if not quite mature) market for Internet search, and by 2004, it was by far the leading Internet search engine, handling almost 85% of the search requests on the web. A great example of this is the rise of Google and the demise of AltaVista, Lycos, Yahoo, and a raft of others.

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Marketing Differentiation Widget Search 115

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

PayPal, under the leadership of David Marcus and Bill Scott, re-defining and re-engineering itself by embracing Lean Startup to improve the product experience. My personal background was as an engineer and my companies had been Web-based startups, so that is what I wrote about. Startup blogging was hardly "cool" back then.

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Lean Entrepreneur Agile San Francisco 167

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. In 1998 the Department of Justice launched an anti-trust case against Microsoft. But it makes me laugh to now see so many brands advertising their “fan pages&# as they did their AOL Keywords back in the day.

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Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

Hunter Walker

APRIL 10, 2014

I did my first angel investment in 1998, so 16 years and 60+ investments. Dentists from the Midwest, tech CEOs, Facebook engineers, VC’s and private equity partners. Q: Although your $3.3m AngelList syndicate has surprised some people, you’ve been angel investing for quite a while, right? Do you let anyone join?

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Syndicate Syndication Hiring Cofounder 121

Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Page initially tried to run Google’s entire engineering department without management by having all 400 employees report directly to Wayne Rosing. The ride-sharing company, which at its last round of financing was the world’s most valuable startup, has been in the news quite a bit for a number of serious issues.

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Silicon Valley Early Stage Software Review Employee 36