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. Press the flesh.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

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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CTO Internet Illinois Cofounder 78

BeyondVC

JANUARY 22, 2009

  In an old New York Magazine article from 1999 Josh proclaimed that ""The potential for a company like Pseudo is to start from a Website and replicate the success of ABC, NBC, or CBS — a long shot but an enormous payoff."   I hope you enjoy the trailer and more importantly my brother-in-law's music.

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Hockey Stick Web New York Social Network 60

Up and Running

MARCH 18, 2013

I answer these same exact same publishing questions every day like it’s 1999. I actually started a book-publishing company in my college dorm room in … 1999. I’ve been publishing books since AOL dial-up internet was in style. That’s why they invented social networking… to promote your own agenda.

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ConversionXL

MAY 31, 2017

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. billion MAUs for the top four social networks. It’s been around since the mid-1990s.

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Lead Generation Channel IP Conversion 91

Seeing Both Sides

MARCH 18, 2013

In the world of the Internet, deflation viewed as a positive force, leading to massive consumer gains. I've been thinking a lot about deflation and its impact on the Internet economy since reading two articles in two different newspapers this last week. How can we reconcile these two competing beliefs?

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Japan Advertising Internet Video 41

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. Could we have built the first college-based social network five years before Facebook ? I pretty much missed all the trends.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 94

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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