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Why Has Seed Investing Declined? And What Does this Mean for the Future?

Both Sides of the Table

if you want to download the deck it’s here on SlideShare ) Why Did The Seed Market Emerge in the First Place? Between 1999–2005 the costs went down by 90% and between 2005–2010 they went down a further 90%. I launched my first startup in 1999 so I know the economics of launching from first-hand experience.

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The Making of DigitalMarketer With Founder Ryan Deiss

Duct Tape Marketing

The Making of DigitalMarketer With Founder Ryan Deiss written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Ryan is also the founder and host of the Traffic & Conversion Summit, the largest digital marketing conversion conference in North America. Download a copy for yourself here. Marketing Podcast with Ryan Deiss.

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Why Every Company Needs A DevOps Team Now

Feld Thoughts

Following is a guest post on DevOps by Gene Kim , Multiple Award-Winning CTO, Researcher, Visible Ops Co-Author, Entrepreneur & Founder of Tripwire. Since 1999, my passion has been studying high performing IT organizations. This quote came from Patrick Lightbody, the CEO and founder of BrowserMob. That moment is now.

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

In the mid-1990s, a good friend of mine, Gene Kim (founder of Tripwire and author of When IT Fails: A Business Novel ) and I were in graduate school together in the Computer Science program at the University of Arizona. A big technical challenge we studied was piping streaming video over networks. Napster arrived in June, 1999.

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How 99Designs.com came to be

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

Today, I went to an event in the city of Campbell to hear Matt Mickiewicz, Founder of SitePoint, Flippa, and 99Designs, talk about how he got started. SP had a lot of tutorials that were downloaded a lot. A notable site is FaceSmash which sold for $30k the week the movie Social Network came out. All of them for free.

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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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15 Famous Companies That Started As Something Much Different

YoungUpstarts

Simply put, smart businesses tend to follow the money, and sometimes that means growing into a business the founders hadn’t ever imagined. But in the 1990s, Nokia pared down to simply focus on telecommunications, including networking equipment, personal computers, IT equipment, and the product they are most famous for today, mobile phones.