VC Cafe

JUNE 26, 2023

In the early days of the web, companies like AltaVista, Excite, WebCrawler and others competed in becoming the search engine of choice. 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.

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Generative AI Search ChatGPT Technical Review 174

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. But the masses didn’t want to blog.

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Social Network Networking Internet EC2 297

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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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

If you work your way down the Forbes 400 making an x next to the name of each person with an MBA, youll learn something importantabout business school. But this is just the kindthat tends to be open source: operating systems, programminglanguages, editors, and so on. Back in 1998 our CFOtried to talk me into it.

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