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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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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Social Networking in Web 1.0.

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Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles – Cliff Allen

SoCal CTO

In this era of “open source” everything, open conversations on blogs make a lot of sense. We’re pleased with its growth but, as with any Web-based business, we’re looking for additional organizations we can help. It's great to know that you have the radio and TV background. That's great to hear. Growing our business!

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

By day he works on web and social media for HP. Using just two data points, the modem I had in 1986 and the modem I had in 1998, the spreadsheet predicts that I’d have a 25 megabit/second connection in 2012. I wrote an article for the IEEE Spectrum called The Future of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence is Open.

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

Over time, open source software the rise of the next wave of web startups and the embrace of Agile Engineering meant that startups no longer needed millions of dollars to buy specialized computers and license expensive software – they could start a company on their credit cards. The New Exits.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. 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. The Funding Problem. Today we’re online 3.1

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Hazards of Hiring

www.ericsink.com

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. Twelve years later, I think there is some wisdom in hiring people who have made significant contributions to an open source community project.

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