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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

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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6 Signs That Your Startup Could Be The Next Exception

Startup Professionals Musings

To check out the Google founders, and because I still see so many business plans that are modeled after Google (more search engines, and more billion dollar growth models), I had to take a look at the classic book about them a while back, called “ Inside Larry & Sergey’s Brain ,” by Richard L. In 2003, just four years old, sales hit $1.5

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Welcome to The Frontier – An Ode To Startups

Feld Thoughts

Pantheon is building “A big badass platform that will run 30% of the Internet.” When I was was in college, I found some books written on the future social impact of the Internet on the World. We lost the campaign badly , but we won a major battle on The Frontier of Global Politics in the age of the Internet.

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Rustic Canyon Speaks out on GaiKai Exit, Changing Nature of VC, LA Tech & More

Both Sides of the Table

We sat down for an hour to talk about why what GaiKai built was able to overcome its much better funded rival and to dispel the myth that great engineering teams don’t exist in Southern California. GaiKai had 50 such engineers, which was a large part of its success. Everyone follow him @scottedwalker.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Eventually, Juno provided free access to browse the internet in addition to sending email. What did you learn at Juno?

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25 Entrepreneurs Discuss The Entrepreneurs That Best Represents Innovation and Disruption

Hearpreneur

Larry Page is one of the most outstanding internet entrepreneurs the computer industry has ever seen. He studied computer engineering while attending Stanford University. The largest search engine and streaming site were eventually combined due to this. Thanks to Ray Leon, Pet Insurance Review ! #21- and the other was in Greece.

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What we can learn from the evolution of Content Management Systems

The Next Web

Accessing the Internet on a phone was doable, but the experience was pretty bad. In general, at the time, you had to be an engineer to even think about creating a website. In 2003, another CMS, called WordPress, came into play, and with its plugin architecture, WordPress quickly won the hearts of the development community.

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