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The Long-Term Value of Loyalty

Both Sides of the Table

To the contrary – if you know how to sell your own work, can negotiate good rates, network well, keep consistent work and have a great reputation – it can be very rewarding. That is when no customers wanted to work with Internet startups because we as an industry had burned so many customers.

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

A big technical challenge we studied was piping streaming video over networks. We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet. The same spreadsheet also predicted we’d see a music downloading service in 1999 or 2000. But I digress…).

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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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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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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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Should You Get Rid of Your Website’s Lead Forms?

ConversionXL

Messenger (1998), and MSN/Windows Live Messenger (1999). According to Mary Meeker’s 2016 Internet Trends Report , 6 of the world’s top 10 most used apps are messaging apps. billion MAUs for the top four social networks. It’s been around since the mid-1990s. They’re the six I just mentioned two paragraphs up.). Image Source.

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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!