1998 Engineer Internet Silicon Valley 
ReadWriteStart
OCTOBER 22, 2019
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. Companies are relying on the engineering talent provided by remote, distributed, or as we call them , boundaryless teams. Ditto for Apple. But the world has changed.
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.
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Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
We’re now in the second Internet bubble. The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. Rules for building a company in 2011 are different than they were in 2008 or 1998. Carpe Diem.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
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. They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. And then came AOL.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 4, 2010
Over time the idea that winners in new markets are the ones who have been the first (not just early) entrants into their categories became unchallenged conventional wisdom in Silicon Valley. The irony is that in a retrospective paper ten years later (1998), [ 2 ] the authors backed off from their claims. By then it was too late.
Up and Running
JULY 11, 2014
in 1998 and eventually became Yahoo!Store. It’s the poor quality version of HBO’s Silicon Valley. Attracting angel investment and getting ‘Valley’ respect is. Harness the internet to validate your business idea. Sold to Yahoo! If you haven’t seen it, don’t bother getting started. The difference?
Hearpreneur
AUGUST 19, 2015
We are unbelievably lucky to be here right now, with a team of über-talented people from the best and brightest Silicon Valley companies, at a moment when what a book should be is morphing before our very eyes. At Blurb, we’ve built an Internet platform for people to produce their own bookstore-quality books.
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