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The future of search is being reinvented with generative AI

VC Cafe

Until now, to succeed in search companies needed two things: 1) an index of the web 2) an algorithm to organise the results. In the early days of the web, companies like AltaVista, Excite, WebCrawler and others competed in becoming the search engine of choice.

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How The New General Data Protection Regulation Will Affect Online Businesses

YoungUpstarts

by Gabriel Shaoolian, founder of DesignRush. The new regulations replace the 1995 EU Data Protection Directive and the 1998 UK Data Protection Act. Web and computer information, such as location, IP address, cookie data and RFID tags. Banking and credit card information. Data Breaches Must Be Formally Reported.

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Why SWOT Analysis Belongs in Your Business Plan

Up and Running

It was also in a SWOT session that we realized we needed to make our product downloadable on the web (back in 1998, when we were among the first). It was in one of these sessions that somebody suggested that I should change my focus a bit and deal more with the large picture than the specific code. People like strategy.

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

By day he works on web and social media for HP. In the mid-1990s, a good friend of mine, Gene Kim (founder of Tripwire and author of When IT Fails: A Business Novel ) and I were in graduate school together in the Computer Science program at the University of Arizona. Napster arrived in June, 1999. Step 2: Forecast the linear trend.

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The Golden Age of the Boston Internet Entrepreneur

Genuine VC

There are a couple classic archetypes of internet/software founders, including the genius college student cooking up something quirky but ultimately disruptive in his dorm room who launches his company straight out of undergrad. Along with their demise came a dismissive attitude about most entrepreneurial web-related endeavors.

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MobileMonday Founder Discusses Mobi Programs at Innotech

Austin Startup

Enrique Ortiz, the founder of MobileMonday Austin and a panelist for InnoTech Austin’s Mobile Application Marketplace session. Q1: What caused you to want to get into working with mobile telephone platforms in 1998? Matt Scherer, a contributing blogger, had the opportunity to interview C. Details on Innotech can be found here.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: athenahealth

Seeing Both Sides

The founding pair realized that they needed to pivot into becoming a software company, and in late 1998, completely shifted their focus to delivering athenaNet, their Web-based medical billing platform, as a cloud-based software service for all doctors. As anyone who has met him can tell you, Jonathan Bush is a unique founder/CEO.