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Why the Browser Matters

Ben's Blog

This was not so illogical as most companies didn’t even run TCP/IP—they ran proprietary networking protocols such as AppleTalk, Netbios, and SNA. After Mosaic, even Marc and his co-founder Jim Clark originally planned a business for video distribution to run on top of the proprietary Information Super Highway , not the Internet.

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

This code convergence effort was supposed to save Microsoft substantial development time, and also - they tried to convince themselves - improve the offering since Word would have the same features on every platform. But back in 1999, a then very young Netflix based in Los Gatos with less than 20 employees, was on the edge of going bust.

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The Web is Against the Ropes, But it’s Not Dead

Both Sides of the Table

The start of the argument is that you need to separate using the Internet into “infrastructure & cloud services&# (basically the protocols of the Internet such as HTTP, TCP/IP, SMTP, etc. + My first company was a SaaS software company started in 1999. We could update small portions of the screen rather than an entire refresh.

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Do Movies Even Matter Anymore?

Growthink Blog

The movie business of today is all "pre-sold" IP. In 1999, Lee joined the Silicon Valley new media content contingent as an Internet-company CEO, and has since founded two innovative Los Angeles media companies. Toy Story 3? Karate Kid 3? Iron Man 2? Sex and The City 2? The A-Team? Where are all of the NEW Ideas in Entertainment?

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Episode 106: Implementing Profit First With Frank DeBenedetto and Ralph M. Rivera

Mike Michalowicz

Too add, by implementing Profit First, within the first two weeks of starting the business, the company took their first distribution check! In 1999 my wife Carol Lynn and I founded Rahvalor Interactive, a creative marketing services company. Today, he spends the majority of his professional time on new business development.

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Fixing Tech – A Manifesto from a Raving Capitalist

Start Up Blog

After the Dot Com crash of 1999, most yet-to-be-disrupted big firms got back to business. Packaged food and beverages were marketed as natural and safe, filled with secret ingredients (sometimes dangerous) were developed by the manufacturers, so they could sell more and keep it shelf stable for longer. But when the web 2.0