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Response to the Journal

OnlyOnce

While the article does not uncover any wrongdoings on our part (in fact, it does mention that we have first-party relationships with and consent from our consumers), it does raise a larger privacy and security concern against Google for allowing developer access to Gmail’s API to create email apps.

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Response to the Journal

OnlyOnce

While the article does not uncover any wrongdoings on our part (in fact, it does mention that we have first-party relationships with and consent from our consumers), it does raise a larger privacy and security concern against Google for allowing developer access to Gmail’s API to create email apps.

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Second Verse, Same as the First…Except Way Better

OnlyOnce

1999 wasn’t the dark ages, but it feels like a different millennium in terms of what it’s like to start a technology company from scratch. The cloud and micro services/APIs mean that we are able to build our platform much more quickly at much lower cost than in the past. It’s much easier to build a startup today.

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I Want My CIC! … The Benefits for Startups to Be Co-Located

Both Sides of the Table

The CIC, founded in 1999, is located adjacent to MIT and has more than 100,000 sq ft of space for nearby startups that qualify to be housed there. I’m 100% certain this would benefit our community and not just the entrepreneurs that work there. VC’s and more experienced entrepreneurs would have a central hub in which to gather.

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

Back in 1999, it all ended very bad. Even though he isn’t couching it in the “Discovery/Validation&# language you can see that his metrics for success are radically different than one delivering a physical product. Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development [.]

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Is LinkedIn Intro Good, Bad, or Impossible?

Feld Thoughts

While controversial in 1999, DNS redirect-based services have become accepted across all ports and protocols. And vendors are getting more and more clever with APIs or skirting them altogether in order to get their app in front of us. The details are made available up front. New levels of integrated services are coming online daily.

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A Relevant Tale: How Google Killed Inktomi

Diego Basch

In 1999 Google was gaining popularity because they were solving exactly this problem. We provided results via our API to our customers. Yahoo had been complaining to us about not being result #1 for yahoo for a while. We fixed that special case, but we couldn’t do the same for many other sites or pages. This caused latency.

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