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.
YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 20, 2015
The coolest thing you can say to anyone todat seem to be when you announce that you’re launching a startup. Definition of A Startup. He also said, “A company ceases being a startup when it “starts to be reactive rather than proactive—play more defense than offense. Facts: Only a few new companies are startups.
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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. Ironically, when I asked her what her favorite startup was, she said somewhat semi-seriously, "Raising my 21-year old son."
Austin Startup
JANUARY 31, 2018
We have also been selected to be part of the official Hamburg Startups Delegation to SXSW (though our headquarters are in London, one of our investors is from Germany). We also won second place at the Startups@Reeperbahn Festival 2017 in Hamburg, Germany, which we are really proud of. Same in startup world, keep working on the product.
Up and Running
JULY 11, 2014
“The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. There are two primary reasons that startups fail: One, the execution of the idea is poor (wrong location, poor product, bad service, etc) and two, the startup is not making something that people want. in 1998 and eventually became Yahoo!Store.
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. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 4, 2010
This one phrase became the theoretical underpinning of the out-of-control spending of startups during the dot-com bubble. The irony is that in a retrospective paper ten years later (1998), [ 2 ] the authors backed off from their claims. Therefore, startups whose mantra is “ we have to be first to market ” usually lose.
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