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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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. 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 Internet usage a decade ago was less than 1 hour per day and was restricted to narrowband communications.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The year was 1998. The company of eight was engaged in web design, which, early in the growth of middle-sized business on the web, was hot at the time. And yes, his partner had a valid suit, having been locked out of the web-design business and denied access to decisions and accounting information.

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Board Effect

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Once you’ve posted something on the internet, it can go viral within seconds, leaving no room for a do-over. Anything you post on the world wide web can live on for infamy. Announce your nonprofit’s role when another user uses the nonprofit’s name elsewhere on the web. The same principle works in social media posting.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

One, which is described in great detail in the Mythical Man-Month (in finding that link, I discovered that today is coincidentally the exact 11th anniversary of my first purchasing that book: Jan 19, 1998), is that as you add people to a team or project, there is an increase in communications overhead that makes everyone slightly less productive.

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 22, 2006

As I started thinking about his question, I remember what it was like setting up our office in 1998 and the headaches and cost of buying a Nortel phone system and phones and hiring a Microsoft networking expert to get our office set up for file sharing, back up, and email. Yes this is basic but it is easy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

In May of 1998, India detonated several nuclear weapons at a test site near New Delhi. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, ► May (3) Thank you Philosophy Helps Start-Ups Move Faster (WSJ on the. Expo SF (May.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 18, 2013

Yoyodyne was acquired by Yahoo in 1998. Information is there online, to any one of the billion people who has access to the Internet. But it was at Yoyodyne where Godin popularized the principle of so-called permission marketing , and went on to author many books on the subject. “They used to be the same thing.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 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. AOL was closed, the Internet was open.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Telecom O2 learning to move at the speed of the internet 500 Startups and their accelerated feedback loops on what works, and what doesn't work in early-stage investing. My personal background was as an engineer and my companies had been Web-based startups, so that is what I wrote about. (Social entrepreneurs take note!)

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 10, 2011

In 1998, Google was the new kid in an established (if not quite mature) market for Internet search, and by 2004, it was by far the leading Internet search engine, handling almost 85% of the search requests on the web.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

As I write this, Congress is teetering on the brink of passing the most disastrously ill-conceived law in the 18-year history of the commercial Internet, SOPA. Google, which incorporated in 1998, has a market cap of $200 billion and employs more than 30,000 people.

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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. Details on Innotech can be found here.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

The year was 1998. The company of eight was engaged in web design, hot at the time. Over a million of these came to the company’s game web site each month for new information and to form an early Internet game community. Can you begin to tell that this is a story of timing, and of the Internet bubble?

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

I’m a tech co-founder in internet startups and after you’ve co-founded a few ventures you definitely have a much more of an appreciation for what’s required to make a startup work at the technical level – it’s certainly not just a software engineer. Friday, August 20, 2010 Stephanie says: I can testify to this!

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. The inflation-adjusted data from the last bubble tells the story: In the 3-year period from 1998-2000, venture capital firms raised more than $200 billion, which represented about 0.55% of the national GDP.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

I also traveled, attending tournaments in Seattle, Singapore, Sydney, Melbourne and Sapporo Japan during my gaming “career” My time playing Magic happened to coincide with the rise of the Internet. The dot com boom had come and gone and I was keen to see where the Internet could take me.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

With a unique vision for starting and successfully managing innovative companies, he is the Managing Partner of Social Leverage, a holding company that invests in early stage web businesses. Mr. Lindzon continues to manage a hedge fund he started in 1998. Mr. Parekh serves on various advisory boards of start-up internet companies.

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Diego Basch

JANUARY 27, 2012

He got it in 1998, back in the relatively early days of the internet. He figured out a way to upgrade the software on your home computer over the internet. If you build a web application, it’s almost certain that you are violating many patents. Patent number 5771354. billion dollars.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Either way the "one stop shop" model went out with portals in 1998. internet technology. That business is called Google and now they’re the largest internet company in the world, still headquartered in California with over 19,000 employees. That's just the way it works. What does that even mean? continued to expand.

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www.ericsink.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Nolo Press has a Web page on employment law that has lots of information. In 1998, SourceGear was looking to hire a full-time person in technical support. Right now, somewhere on the Internet, there is a discussion board or a chat room where people are arguing about how much education is needed to be a software developer.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2017

Online directories are sites that scrape the Internet looking for businesses’ information – at a minimum they’ll include a company’s name, address and phone number (NAP) — to pull into their master database of businesses. Online Business Directories are websites that scrape the Internet looking for information about local businesses.

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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. Joblife tries to resolve these challenges by empowering job seekers with a web application that is accessible from any mobile phone. Did the Canucks win their last hockey game? What was happening?

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

a 1988 global bestseller about the rise of Japanese financial power; Road Warriors, a 1995 book about the birth of digital media and the Internet; Big Dragon, a 1998 book about China’s future; Secrets of the Code; a 2004 guidebook to the Da Vinci Code that was on the New York Times bestseller list for six months; Blog!

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MAY 5, 2010

In summary, I went online in 1998, played with the web for two years, spending my time on newsgroups, forums and surfing for information on the things I was interested in at the time. Get your bonus copy of my book "How To Start An Internet Business & Make Your First $1,000 Online" Download Here.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

They had three new ideas: index more of the Web, uselinks to rank search results, and have clean, simple web pages withunintrusive keyword-based ads. During the Internet Bubble there were a number of startups founded by business people who then wentlooking for hackers to create their product for them. This doesnt work well.

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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. In March of 2009 EliteEditing.com launched, and I would run back and forth to an Internet café five blocks from my office to manage work coming through and to take business calls. ” Thanks to Ajay Prasad, GMR Web Team ! #16)

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 14, 2016

However, thanks to the fact evolution of Internet, the threat of this virus is now mitigated. Web Scripting Virus. Ever faced a problem where the homepage of your web page gets automatically directed to a particular site? In modern computers, this virus could appear on the “Master Boot Record”. Direct Action Virus.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I had a lot of fun learning what the internet could do for me. In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering. It was a little bit geeky, but I really enjoyed it. Where am I today?

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ConversionXL

MAY 31, 2017

Messenger (1998), and MSN/Windows Live Messenger (1999). According to Mary Meeker’s 2016 Internet Trends Report , 6 of the world’s top 10 most used apps are messaging apps. web chat, or a real-time messaging tool that can be accessed via your website and/or in-app). It’s been around since the mid-1990s.

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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. At an entirely web-based business like ours, those concise, branded links are extremely valuable. 1- Suggestive and evocative name. Photo Credit: Rob Sheppard.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 9, 2013

In Effects of Web Atmospheric Cues on Users’ Emotional Responses in E-Commerce , researchers Hong Sheng and Tanvi Joginapelly found that websites with a stronger emotional impact produced a greater intent to buy. . 1998) – 120,000+ customers. 1998) – 500,000 customers . Emotional Design Influences Sales.

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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., Sans serif are better on the web. 2000-2001 , Tullis et al.,

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 29, 2010

There’s no distractions like on the web – no browser back button, no banners, links, email, search bar, skype, facebook, twitter or all the usual suspects that grab your attention. Get your bonus copy of my book "How To Start An Internet Business & Make Your First $1,000 Online" Download Here.

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Transformify

APRIL 11, 2017

Web companies are fighting to stay on top of the never ending stream of movies that appear on sites like YouTube every day, or the music that pops up on hundreds of sites online that people are able to download for free whenever they want. The war with online piracy is a constant battle for those that are trying to stop it.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

After college, I was a very early employee at a web company called Tumblr. It’s a web-based time tracking system. Bates: Josh, it reminds me of when I was doing web sites back in the day in 2000 and 1998 and instead of going and being able to buy a shopping cart you had to code the shopping cart from scratch.

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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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