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Do Movies Even Matter Anymore?

Growthink Blog

The movie business of today is all "pre-sold" IP. Or will the convergence of content, internet, mobile applications, games and social media be the onrushing asteroids that will soon destroy the movie dinosaurs? How about Internet Video? NEW media has become the home of innovation and imagination. Annual U.S.

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

Both Sides of the Table

The premise is that with the rise of Facebook on the Internet & Apple “Apps&# on mobile, the Internet is becoming more closed. web storage, elastic computing) from how you consume the Internet as a user (the front end – HTML). . + My first company was a SaaS software company started in 1999.

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Why the Browser Matters

Ben's Blog

Before my partner Marc Andreessen and his friends at the University of Illinois invented the browser in 1993, most people thought only scientists and researchers would use the Internet. The Internet was thought to be too arcane, insecure and slow to meet real business needs. The implications of the propriety vision were not good.

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

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. They’ve been around for nearly 100 years, but they embraced technology and the Internet relatively early. Legal wasn't used to distribution via IP enabled devices. The combination is amazing.

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Fixing Tech – A Manifesto from a Raving Capitalist

Start Up Blog

Internet 1.0. It was difficult to conceive how important the internet would be to our lives back in the mid 1990s. After the Dot Com crash of 1999, most yet-to-be-disrupted big firms got back to business. How could anyone ever lie again if we could just check it out on the internet and find out the truth!