Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

Let us look at examples of the last two major computing cycles (prior to the Internet). As you can see, we are poised to hit the major adoption wave for the Internet technology platform over the next 8 years. The internet is working. A lot has changed since the internet bubble eleven years ago. Today, there are over 2.1

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 24, 2022

Nick Clegg, Meta’s President of Global Affairs. For example, in 1998, Prof. Paul Krugman, a Noble Prize winning economist, predicted that by 2005 it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy will be no greater than the Fax machine… Source: (you can check the authenticity on Snopes).

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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). A cliche I’ve heard many times is “Wall Street Always Wins.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. In 1997, the year the Kauffman Report begins its analysis; there were 70 million users online globally. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million. By the end of 2011 the Internet population was estimated at 2.3

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thebarefootvc

APRIL 9, 2018

All were too young to have experienced the internet boom of the late 1990s, and I had deja vu listening to them — remembering business school conferences at Kellogg on “Digital Technology” in 1998. Others wanted to know whether venture capital was going away. I smiled when some asked if they were too late to enter the sector.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 9, 2006

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Paris, November 1998. internet. (6). How the use of internet is transform. Global warming: a plague for humanity? Global Warning! Cracking The Code. Saturday, December 09, 2006. anecdotes. (13).

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

When I got out to Stanford in 1998 it was still the dawn of the consumer commercial internet. Not because VCs or SF hipsters or Stanford undergrads were especially insightful but because the Internet population wasn’t as diverse as it is today. And it’s interesting to consider why. Largely American/Western.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 29, 2016

Second, they defined these audiences by funnel stage, location, on-site behavior, and Internet service provider (ISP). Selling more than 17 million bags since 1998, eBags knew they had huge retargeting potential, but what they did with their data was pretty creative. Ad creative was also split tested. Image Source).

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Q1: What caused you to want to get into working with mobile telephone platforms in 1998? These early adopters have access to high-end handsets, access to the Internet, the Web and applications, music on their handsets, personal information and access to friends. A: There are different challenges for different people.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 23, 2010

When I attended between 1998-2001, there were a few course on entrepreneurship (entrepreneurial finance, entrepreneurial strategy, etc.), but I don’t recall courses on internet strategy. In 2005, he and Keywell started Echo Global Logistics, a business-to-business online logistics and trucking firm that they took public in 2008.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

Prior to AxialMarket, Peter held positions in private equity at SFW Capital Partners and was part of the founding team at Gerson Lehrman Group, where he helped build the firm’s dominant global marketplace for on-demand business expertise. Over the last decade, Dan has served on more than a dozen public and private company boards.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

But if that observation led them to refrain from investing in the Internet sector, they would have missed one of the most stunning legal creations of wealth in history. Matrix had a fund in 1998 that yielded an eye-popping 514+% IRR. Demand from these, now larger, economies are having a very positive effect on the US tech market.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 14, 2013

It’s a nod to the global popularity of YouTube, which announced this March that it reached 1 billion monthly users who watch some 6 billion hours of video each month. See also Google Glass: What Do You Want To Know About Google’s Internet Eyewear.). The History Of Voyeurgasm.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Many people know Akamai as the purveyor of the Internet’s backbone. Incorporated in 1998 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company’s network of over 100,000 globally distributed servers provides an infrastructure layer that accelerates the distribution and delivery of content, media and applications. Akamai: The Present.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Mr. Lindzon continues to manage a hedge fund he started in 1998. Mr. Lindzon’s new media and internet business investments also include: Limos.com, Blogtalkradio.com, Buddy Media, Ticketfly, Assistly, Bit.ly Michael was the lead research analyst for the IPOs of Internet companies like UUNET, Yahoo!,

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

It was 1998 and the internet wasn’t exactly readily available. It sounds simple now, but in 1998 it was unheard of. After a long research done on the market, I realized that there aren’t many vendors offering to monitor both local and global news sources at the same time. Did the Canucks win their last hockey game?

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

In closing, I’m not saying there isn’t some room for Old-School Management Philosophy that was pertinent after we reduced our Industrialization Era competition to rubble (Germany and Japan), but we live in a different world and a different Global Economy today – let’s keep our eye on the ball. Browse Articles by Tag.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

about Moshe Lichtman, and why he is one of few men or women capable of leading an Israeli startup to global billions. He worked his way up the corporate ladder; in 1998 he became VP of the Digital TV platform strategy, which did not pan out, and in 1999 he found an opportunity in Microsoft Internet (MSN) international.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

At Blurb, we’ve built an Internet platform for people to produce their own bookstore-quality books. Surfers alway want to know the waves conditions in real-time and they want to stay connected with their local and global community. That’s it. That’s what we do. Thanks to Eileen Gittins, Blurb ! #2)

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2018

In my field—online English language teaching—there are a lot of literal business names out there: Joe’s Internet English School, Learn English Online via Skype, etc. I came up with the name Excel Global Partners for my corporate consulting firm because of the vision I had for the company. Nowlin, Excel Global Partners ! #10-

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2016

According to PWC, within the next 3-5 years, cumulative investment in FinTech globally could exceed $150 billion. Quite simply, the digital, mobile, and Internet revolutions are transforming the way customers access financial products and services of all types, and across all consumer and business sectors.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 25, 2019

Global economic growth is determined by powerful markets, which are becoming more and more sophisticated. Among the most noteworthy markets for newly-established businesses, India and China are the ones most likely to eliminate inefficiencies in global trade. Following 1998, the economy was completely restructured.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. He should have invested in Lawson obviously… I could not track back their stock price in 1998 when NetSuite was launched, but since Jan. internet. (6). How the use of internet is transform. for Lawson?

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

Back in 1998 when Times New Roman was still widely used on the web, my then boss made sure we always designed our web sites with Arial, as she hated the look of serif fonts on the web. Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). 1998 , Bernard et al., 1998 , Tullis et al., Posted on February 17, 2008 by Alex Poole. 1995 , Reynolds, 1979 ).

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

For public investors in Facebook to achieve returns comparable to those of Microsoft shareholders, Facebook would need to reach a market cap of $500 trillion, a number that well exceeds the total global market cap of all listed stocks. 1990-1998 13.3% 22% 1990-1998 13.3% 1990-1998 10% 6.3% 1999-2000 51.6% 1999-2000 37.5%

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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. In many places, mobile data and hardwired internet were still billed based upon usage. Today, even developing countries have fast wired internet. Ditto for Apple.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

While the global financial crash of 2008 and the resulting Great Recession initially slowed job growth in Silicon Valley, the meteoric rise of smart phones and social media helped the tech industry as a whole to power ahead despite the near collapse of the global economy. A Variation on the Global Economic Crash of 2008?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

In more than a decade of writing about the Internet and tech-enabled businesses I’ve learned that mobs don’t do nuance well. Decentralized Internet — This is perhaps the most unsexy part of cryptocurrency but the one that most purists I follow on this topic are most excited about.

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