Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

In more than a decade of writing about the Internet and tech-enabled businesses I’ve learned that mobs don’t do nuance well. Decentralized Internet — This is perhaps the most unsexy part of cryptocurrency but the one that most purists I follow on this topic are most excited about.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Globalization has increased the level of competition and introduced more turmoil to the business environment. If you want to take your business to the next level, you’ll need to be open to the current realities of the new global economy, and get more creative. million in 1999, Zappos is now worth $1 billion.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

As the threat of cyberattacks grows, training in safe internet use and responding to external threats is vital for all IT workers. The threat is growing, with cybersecurity attacks expected to cost global businesses $2.1 In turn, social media scams are becoming more prevalent. The statistics don’t lie. trillion a year by 2019.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Out of over 70 companies that we have invested in since 1999, about 20 are in our home city, New York. Some VCs monitor Internet traffic reports or job boards to see which companies are growing. MCM Capital ( case study ) is a rare example of a lower middle-market private equity fund with a proactive social media strategy.

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Up and Running

JUNE 18, 2014

Founded in 1999 in Montreal, Canada, ice.com was recently acquired by Round 2 Inc., Social media platforms – there’s nothing wrong with turning to social media to find people you learn from and who you connect with. An incubator or a coworking space – this is especially helpful if you’re an internet startup business.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 3, 2011

While plenty of tech bloggers were tossing around the word “bubble&# , I also noticed it among the mainstream media. In the tech industry, the great Internet bubble inflated between 1999 and 2000 and deflated (or popped) in 2001. So I spent some time on my run yesterday rolling the idea of a bubble around in my head.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 14, 2011

I was recently asked some questions about changes afoot in the creative, technology and media space. Q1: Who is better positioned for the future – creative agencies or media agencies? Neither creative nor media agencies are better placed for the future in the new digital world. Would love to hear your thoughts and retorts.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Speakers: - Bob Dahl, HBS Alumni Angel, formerly head of Global Healthcare for the Carlyle Group. Bantuveris is a recognized national expert in boosting parent involvement in school and using social media for social good. Click here to make a reservation. Karen Bantuveris, CEO of VolunteerSpot ( ff VC and angel-backed startup with 2.5m

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thebarefootvc

JANUARY 1, 2013

I invested in Silicon Valley from 1999-2003 and in NYC pre and post 2008 financial crisis. Given the growth of the Internet, fueled by smartphones and high speed broadband, it’s no surprise that the tech world has been awash in capital in the past few years. Two significant boom and bust cycles of the modern era.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 31, 2017

A study by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor found that 73 percent of entrepreneurs fund their ventures through their own savings, an average of $15,000. Thanks to the internet, we have access to dozens of passive income ideas. The internet makes information so easily accessible, we can learn anything we want now.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Many people know Akamai as the purveyor of the Internet’s backbone. Incorporated in 1998 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company’s network of over 100,000 globally distributed servers provides an infrastructure layer that accelerates the distribution and delivery of content, media and applications. How did Akamai do it? . .

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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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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

For creatives, it is a global stage for creativity where title and experience don’t matter. In January of 1999, I co-founded a marketing agency with a former boss. Thanks to Kent Lewis, Anvil Media. #4 Before they were born, I was working as a salesperson for a big media company, making a lot of money.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 14, 2011

I was recently asked some questions about changes afoot in the creative, technology and media space. Q1: Who is better positioned for the future – creative agencies or media agencies? Neither creative nor media agencies are better placed for the future in the new digital world.

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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.

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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. Contact Us.

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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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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

While the global financial crash of 2008 and the resulting Great Recession initially slowed job growth in Silicon Valley, the meteoric rise of smart phones and social media helped the tech industry as a whole to power ahead despite the near collapse of the global economy. A Variation on the Global Economic Crash of 2008?

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