Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

Similarly, Google, well on its way to owning the dominant smart phone operating system and which maintains a near monopoly position in search, trades at a price/earnings (P/E) ratio (ex-cash) of around 13.7. In 1998, I was working at Netscape, which owned well over half of the browser market. But this is still hardly a bubble multiple.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

It worked like a charm since we could create a more interactive experience on the Web. What started out as a generic web-based chat solution morphed into a full-fledged product for a distance education that we called iClass. (We We really were doing the i-thing before Apple came out with its first iMac in 1998.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

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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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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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 15, 2018

We regularly share our favorite posts on entrepreneurship, small business, marketing, logo design , web design , startups, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! If Tech needed any additional reasons for humility… Mar 1998, Fortune: “How Yahoo! Won The Search Wars.”. — Kate L.

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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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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 15, 2018

We regularly share our favorite posts on entrepreneurship, small business, marketing, logo design , web design , startups, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! If Tech needed any additional reasons for humility… Mar 1998, Fortune: “How Yahoo! Won The Search Wars.”. — Kate L.

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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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Board Effect

OCTOBER 16, 2019

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. It’s wise to do a search on your nonprofit’s name occasionally and find out who is also using your content. The same principle works in social media posting.

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Always an entrepreneur at heart, Eric recognized small and medium sized businesses needed access to cost-effective, quality technology expertise and founded On Line Support in 1998. I’m a freelance web designer who specializes in websites for small businesses that don’t just look good (and they do!) – they convert!

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

I am a “business person” – I’ve been in the Internet space since 1998 when I co-founded GoTo.com/Overture, and I have deep product and marketing expertise and a track record of building successful consumer companies and brands. Search: RSS Feed. Friday, August 20, 2010 Stephanie says: I can testify to this!

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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 They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. Social Networking in Web 1.0: By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML.

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www.paulgraham.com

AUGUST 1, 2008

Its so cheap to start web startups that orders of magnitudes more will be started. Lots of Startups So my first prediction about the future of web startups is pretty straightforward: there will be a lot of them. Look at what a hard time Microsoft is having discovering web apps. That is the future of web startups.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2017

The main Search Engine Optimization (SEO) benefits of getting listed on online directories is that quality online directory listings often show up in search engine result pages (SERPs) when a local business is searched for. In the example below I searched for ‘clarks shoe stores austin tx.’ and other search engines.

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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. The real point of the usual advice is not to inflate our egos--it is to remind us that we should not be afraid to search for the best people. Look for Self-Awareness.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Googles plan, for example, was simply to create a search site thatdidnt suck. 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. For example, dating sites currently suck far worse than search didbefore Google.

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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 were the election results?

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Hearpreneur

MAY 29, 2016

But in the end, I chose, SEO Derek because I wanted to get SEO into the title for search purposes, and by adding my name, people could remember who I was without having to look it up. Launched in 1998, Care2 is the world’s largest community for good, with over 35 million members taking daily actions to make a difference in the world.

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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

JUNE 19, 2010

The difference here is the entry-level cost to buying web property, not physical property, is much lower than what it is to buy real-world properties. I managed to visit Seattle as part of the Australian national Magic The Gathering team in 1998, so that was the highlight of my career as a professional Magic player.

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ConversionXL

MAY 31, 2017

Messenger (1998), and MSN/Windows Live Messenger (1999). web chat, or a real-time messaging tool that can be accessed via your website and/or in-app). And as soon as an email address is entered, the app can automatically store it and search the web for relevant info that’s linked to that email address (e.g.

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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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Jeff Hilimire

MAY 7, 2014

Check out these two stories from a story on Larry Page (Google co-founder) in Slate : In 1999, for instance, the method by which large Web companies such as eBay, Yahoo, and Google added server space had become fairly routine. In 1998, Page and Brin decided to take all eight of Google’s employees on a company ski trip to Lake Tahoe.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 9, 2019

Virginia seemed like a very big place back in 1998 when I decided to start this company under the name Virginia Lake Management. Since we planned to register it as a worldwide trademark, we had to make sure that there was no other company with this name, and that the web domains didn’t already exist. 11- Define three things.

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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. You can imagine people sitting in their car listening to Jason and his co-host Sterling interview experts.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2018

At an entirely web-based business like ours, those concise, branded links are extremely valuable. Today, a search of the term of “online dating expert” usually results with the Cyber-Dating Expert ranking at the top. Back then, around 1998, I had a small graphic design firm and I brokered printing for my clients.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 15, 2011

MobileAccess, formerly Foxcom Wireless, was founded in 1998. The web answers search engine, one of the world’s leading Q&A sites with 5.5 World-leading optical connectivity company Corning Inc has acquired Israeli wireless network solutions developer MobileAccess Ltd. MobileAccess’ customers include AT&T Inc.

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Diego Basch

MAY 25, 2011

He was referring to the time back in 1998 when I built an mp3 search engine in C, hosted it on my desktop computer, promoted it until it reached 200k daily queries, and made six figures out of it (all in a matter of months). ” I like that phrase, and I take it as a compliment. 5) You can put the pieces together.

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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

The Internet and World Wide Web themselves emerged from open protocols (HTTP, HTML, SMTP, etc) that allowed businesses, individuals and governments to put information online that was accessible to the masses and then to build applications on top of this infrastructure to the benefit of the masses. Regulation will come. It needs to come fast.

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