Transformify

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Fintech businesses have been thriving in Brazil in the last 10 years as more and more people have access to internet and cheap smartphones that give them access to mobile payment apps. Russia's GDP grew exponentially between 1999 and 2008, driven mostly by oil exports as well as a surge in oil prices.

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David Cohen

MARCH 30, 2020

You are the engine of our future, after all. In 1999, we sold that business and I started angel investing. In 2000, the Internet bubble burst. Now is the time for you to adapt, to show your strength. Use your advantages. Do more faster. Emerge stronger. You can do this. We are all rooting for you to do this. You must be nuts.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2018

That’s a big fundamental change seeing that since the start of the internet and sites like broadcast.com and YouTube, we, the users, have always had a public text chat. On a “dream big” kind of note, I would love to meet Mark Cuban as he was one of the people responsible for broadcast.com back in 1999 when it sold to Yahoo.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

I was building a new startup in 1999, and wanted to do it right. Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas. I had heard that all great companies built their applications on Oracle. Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

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Mucker Lab

MAY 20, 2013

1999 – “The search engine game is over”. 1999 – “The search engine game is over”. Consumer products and services are hit driven, it’s really hard to build a scalable consumer company”. 1996 – “It’s impossible to get to build a billion dollar company selling widgets at $15 and taking $1 commission one at a time”.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

It is basically a return to the type of VC that was done 20 years ago long before the craziness of the Internet boom that skewed things so greatly. This is exactly what happened in the broader VC industry between 1999-2001 as many people without the requisite skills entered the industry. Do you have access to that kind of deal flow?

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 29, 2013

While controversial in 1999, DNS redirect-based services have become accepted across all ports and protocols. Last week, on the LinkedIn engineering blog, details on the new LinkedIn Intro app were shared. All this clever engineering hides the fact that LinkedIn is accessing your email on your behalf. At their discretion.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Fortunately, the rise of the Internet, and specifically Internet marketplace models, act as accelerants to the productivity benefits of the division of labour AND comparative advantage by reducing information asymmetry and increasing the likelihood of a perfect match with regard to the exchange of goods or services.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 21, 2013

1999 – “The search engine game is over”. 1999 – “The search engine game is over”. Consumer products and services are hit driven, it’s really hard to build a scalable consumer company”. 1996 – “It’s impossible to get to build a billion dollar company selling widgets at $15 and taking $1 commission one at a time”.

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Widget Sales Cycle Social Network Government 60

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Through case studies, exercises, and discussions, Eric Ries will guide entrepreneurs of all stripes through the key areas that determine success for startups: product, engineering, QA, marketing, and business strategy. I joined a financial services tech startup in 1999. May 14, 2009 5:23 AM David said. It was a disaster.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Fralic has 25 years of technology industry experience, with significant Internet business development roles since 1996. Mr. Kalghatgi is a recovering engineer with several years of experience in front-end design and development focused on mobile and web UX before completing his MBA at Harvard Business School. through the Yahoo!

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Start Up Blog

AUGUST 25, 2013

Alan is the Head of Engineering for Google Aust / NZ and has been in and around computers since the early 1980′s. They made a trade sale in late 1999. Sydney has the 10th biggest Google engineering team in the world, yet it is the only the 28th biggest internet population. . Though he had a successful exit from it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

A few of the detailed case studies include: Tech legend Bill Gross building an MVP in 1999 to test demand for online car sales, which grew into CarsDirect.com. Telecom O2 learning to move at the speed of the internet 500 Startups and their accelerated feedback loops on what works, and what doesn't work in early-stage investing.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

He focuses on investments in fintech, the internet, and software. You need to know all the people I’ve hired or the people I’m about to hire, whether up and down the stack, people in the engineering team, people on the C-suite management team, and what we expect from them. The theme of this episode is how to scale unicorns.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

They were going to bring the Internet to your mobile phones ushering in the era of “m-commerce.&# Gag. App is one step forward, two steps back – In 1999 I launched my first company, BuildOnline, a SaaS-based (back then we were ASP’s) content management platform for large-scale engineering and construction projects.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

In the summer of 1999, I started working on a startup from my college dorm. Id been on the internet since I was playing MUDs as a kid, but by 1999 I felt Id already missed the boat. You can even see the humiliating evidence of my smug incompetence in this absurd article from 1999.) I pretty much missed all the trends.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

After creating many successful start-ups- from internet fashion companies to home market businesses- I spent several years researching a category that intrigued me from a health-standpoint. I was intrigued when digital photography started taking off, but I didn’t buy my first digital camera until 1999, when my daughter was born.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

In January of 1999, I co-founded a marketing agency with a former boss. I was searching the internet for hours hoping to find the perfect gift to commemorate a special date in the life of my fiancé, Steve. For creatives, it is a global stage for creativity where title and experience don’t matter. 3 – I was Fired Twice.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

APRIL 18, 2012

I have worked for 3 ‘internet startups’ over the past 14 years (my first.com was in 1999) and the two that relied on ‘free’ models (even with ‘freemium services’) did not survive. They didn’t want this to be an engineering-centric effort,” Ms. Koller said of her company’s partner institutions.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

At the same time, I was beginning to realize that the Internet was fundamentally different from closed, proprietary online services like CompuServe or eWorld. Because of the Internet — and especially because of the World Wide Web — things were starting to move very quickly in Silicon Valley in 1995. Trust your allies too.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2019

Reverse engineering the origins of brand-owned terms is not a breakdown of the step-by-step planning that led from term identification to widespread acceptance. Additionally, Shah told me, “It was more specific than ‘Internet Marketing.’ Each term, now ubiquitous, had humble origins but a profound—and profitable—impact.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

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. Necessity being the mother of invention, this is where the queue, the ratings system, and the recommendation engine all came from. The combination is amazing. NETFLIX – Kate Arnold. So the team got to work.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Sure, there are many other events, including eTail and Internet Retailer. It is a non-profit, unlike eTail or Internet Retailer (today I hear that Shoptalk is the biggest eCommerce conference), and it is where the highest level people in digital retail go as a result. At Coremetrics, I built more of an engineering-driven culture.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. I’ve raised in boom markets and when everybody thought the Internet was a fraud. I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. Of course much of it is conflicting.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

He worked on his MBA at MIT’s Sloan School of Management (leaving in the middle for a job at Microsoft in Israel) and received his computer engineering degree from the Technion in Haifa, Israel. His ability to lead large teams of engineers had made him one of the most influential executives at Microsoft and the world.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

Since there was very little documentation my time was split between the design engineers who built the system and the test and deployment team getting the system ready to go overseas. After I was done teaching each the day, I continued to write the operations manuals and work with the test engineers. (I Are You Single? Sign me up.

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Seeing Both Sides

MAY 26, 2009

  Having an NVCA chairman steeped in that world, at a time when the US Government is looking to perform a top-down re-engineering of the health care system, which is projected to make up 20% of GDP in a few years, is good timing indeed. (4) 4)      Boston.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

Mine started this way … I started my first company in the “go-go years&# of the Internet: 1999. We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. We were based in London. a few days before the wheels came off of the market).

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I had a lot of fun learning what the internet could do for me. In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering. I was getting more into internet marketing and trying to ramp up my income.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 22, 2020

I started my business when my first book (on telecommuting) was published in 1999 (in the dark ages of virtual work!). During the brainstorming process, I knew in 2012 that the internet was clearly the next frontier in business. The name consists of 3 most popular keywords that are searched in Google and other search engines as well.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

The Wall Street Journal is phasing out support of the Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser. Internet Explorer. In the 1990s Internet boom, easy money helped founders maintain more control early in a companys evolution, but founder CEOs without voting control often got replaced by a professional manager ahead of an IPO. POST A JOB.

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David Teten

JANUARY 8, 2013

For example, an increase in internet traffic is usually a sign of customer traction. The blog is instrumental in building their brand through a highly targeted search engine optimization campaign: MCM has identified search terms for which it ranks in the top 100 and is incorporating keywords in order to improve the ranking further.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And now all of a sudden you have got this global market of all these early adopters that have smartphones connected to the Internet, and they can just pick up their things and run with them. So it would seem like they are an antidote to, or at least less offensive than, social/consumer Internet companies are to the public markets.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Are You Engineering Your First Impression? Cheskin Research & Studio Archetype found as far back as 1999 that the 6 most important factors in building trust with an eCommerce company are : Brand. I know you’ve heard me say it before, but it only takes.05 05 seconds for a website to make a first impression. Navigation.

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Austin Startup

MAY 3, 2017

Today’s economy is substantially more freelance for one, but as it pertains to technology and innovative entrepreneurship, we find ourselves in an era that is bringing tech to traditional industries that have yet to have fully embraced what the internet has caused: data, connectivity, globalization, scalability, and efficiency. Imagine that.

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Texas Startup Silicon Valley Bootstrapping 48

Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

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!

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Don’t spend like it’s 1999. We have the inability to hire engineering in Silicon Valley or brand sales people in NYC but the country still has very high structural long-term unemployment. Creative destruction will continue to create opportunities for people who understand the deflationary economics of the Internet.

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