Start Up Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Since its launch in 2004, Facebook was the clear winner of social networking with 3.6 The only question is whether the people of the internet themselves will as much attention to it as Zuckerberg wants them to. Both in terms of revenue and profit. billion users across its platforms which include Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

What I’ve honorably been able to do, however, is share the deck I used to pitch LinkedIn to Greylock for a Series B investment back in 2004. the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. In 2004, the consumer internet was just beginning to rebound. the evolution of LinkedIn as a company. Reid Hoffman.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

” I started experiencing, and understanding, agile in 2004 when I made an investment in Rally Software. The backend infrastructure that handles all the Internet connectivity and services for a world-wide distributed technology that was built by a team of 150 engineers overseas. I just read your post on Fixing the Obamacare site.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet. It preceded the WWW but then become the onramp to the Internet for newbies. When Time Warner & AOL merged it was widely feared that this would be a monopoly that would control the Internet. For a nanosecond Rupert Murdoch seemed like the smartest guy on the Internet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Way back in 2004, he cared enough about an associate's injury to spend time investigating, and used the exercise to isolate a root cause without blaming anyone. Even the best business professionals and leaders must concentrate on learning something new each day, through mentors, Internet resources, and studying competitors.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Ads require an Internet connection and therefore turning off the data connection can stop the ads from popping up. Reducing the “random” and “unsolicited” connections to the Internet reduces the attack surface. In 2004 Don moved to threat research. formerly CA).

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 25, 2013

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. I spent a year on the Dean campaign Web Team during the presidential campaign of 2004. I’ve been here before.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. conference happened at the end of 2004). One partnership was clearly very divided and a vocal minority of GPs thought consumer internet companies were a massive waste of time and money.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 10, 2022

Though the internet has enabled entrepreneurs to flourish lately, there will likely be fewer entrepreneurs in the future as people seek stability. Successful businesses have helped pave the way for entrepreneurs, both before and after the Internet boom. The number of new entrepreneurs in the US has been rising annually since 2004.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

The boom in Internet startups would last 4½ years until it came crashing down to earth in March 2000. What this meant for entrepreneurs and VCs was a bit more complex– the IPO market was all but closed (with the Google IPO in 2004 as a brilliant exception), but it was possible find a buyer for your company. billion.)

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

The company was decimated by the collapse of the Internet bubble and ultimately went bankrupt. After I sold my company and started investing in companies in 1994, Charlie and I talked regularly about the Internet, which was just emerging as something that large companies should pay attention to.

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OnlyOnce

JULY 2, 2018

It is now widely understood that the Internet runs on data. I first blogged about this in 2004—14 years ago!— Consumers are coming to understand and appreciate that the real cost of a “free” internet lies in advertising and data collection. (This post is running concurrently on the Return Path blog.). online experience.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

2004), Kayak ($1.8B/2004) 2004) and Fleetmatics ($1.4B/2004), 2004), although the latter was founded in Dublin. And if you want to build a consumer Internet company, there are few role models. . In other words, there have been no multi-billion dollar valued tech companies founded in Boston in the last 13 years.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. A deep dive into the Foundry Group investment philosophy including an interesting discussion of their investing Themes. “… our lens is: Internet Software Companies anywhere in the U.S. If you are outside internet software we are not going to invest.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL. It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. AOL was closed, the Internet was open. And then came AOL.

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OnlyOnce

JULY 2, 2018

It is now widely understood that the Internet runs on data. I first blogged about this in 2004—14 years ago!— Consumers are coming to understand and appreciate that the real cost of a “free” internet lies in advertising and data collection. (This post is running concurrently on the Return Path blog.). online experience.

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Transformify

OCTOBER 20, 2016

E-learning is a convenient way for people worldwide to acquire knowledge using their computers, tablets or phones, and Internet access. Genashtim Innovative Learning is the pioneer for eLearning in Asia, having started in 2004 with a globally recognized online MBA program from some of the top universities in the world.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Mike believed that search was an essential part of the Internet experience, and he guessed that it would evolve towards commercial search. Mike believed that any valuable page was going to be monetizable on a cost-per-click basis in relation to every page on the Internet. He decided to join. How Quigo Went Head-to-Head With Google.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 13, 2010

Of most interest is the story of Mr. Peter Thiel investing $500,000 into the company in 2004, at an effective valuation of $4.9 Thiel is part of the famous PayPal Mafia - former founders of PayPal and their friends that travel in the rarefied Silcon Valley air of next generation Internet ideas and technologies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 30, 2010

The Internet and social media have totally destroyed the meaning of the word “friend.” Maybe that’s why so many people are hurt or defrauded every day by someone they assumed was their “friend” on the Internet. Top Facebook users proudly proclaim their “whale” status, with 5,000 friends or more.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 2, 2023

Back in 2004, I was working for the General Motors pension fund, which had been making limited partnership investments in venture capital since the early 1980’s. USV came in pitching digitally native businesses models that could not exist until the internet connected everyone. I got to see all of the top VCs pitching their funds.

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Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2014

And we did, until the internet came on the scene a couple of years later and left us holding our floppy disks in our hands. Voices.com , an online marketplace that matches voice actors with advertising agencies and TV and radio stations, began in 2004 as an idea scribbled down on a napkin by newlyweds David and Stephanie Ciccarelli.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Not only does the country have a higher percentage of homes with high-speed Internet than the U.S. plus it's faster and costs half as much ), it ranks first in the world for number of blogs per Internet user, and has a formidable market of Internet consumers who spent €5.5 billion online in the first quarter of this year.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

As internet crashed media became cheaper so they bought more and their tracking and analysis became really good so they did better. Selling LowerMyBills: o In 2004 he was getting a lot of call to take more money but was not interested. Later they became big business in Financial services lead-gen.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

Rae Hoffman-Dolan Rae is the Principal of Sugarrae SEO Consulting and does various types of Internet marketing; search engine optimization, viral marketing, affiliate marketing, site auditing, link development road maps and tons of other little nooks and crannies of this business.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

That is when no customers wanted to work with Internet startups because we as an industry had burned so many customers. I was paid less in salary in 2004 than I was paid at the job I quit in 1999 (a job I had held 8+ years). No employees wanted to join startups – they were all looking for stable jobs.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

In 2003, he was the founder of Nigeria’s first online-realtime Point of Sale (POS) electronic payment system and in 2004 created West Africa’s first locally issued and processed online-realtime international payment card: Ecobank MasterCard. “We Here come the drones.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2011

And as long as people put things right and show contrition, situations like this eventually become a “ tempest in a teapot. &# Today’s Internet titans are filled with such momentary lapses. Think John Kerry and the “swift boat&# scandal. He’s verbose, often off message and wooden. How do you lose that debate?

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Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

While it was still a college-focused SNS, Facebook of course launched in 2004 and there were plenty of other examples of social networking already… Friendster (2002), LinkedIn (2003), MySpace (2003), Orkut (2004). It was filed in 2005 and issued in 2010 which means there was a good deal of prior art around SNS before Yahoo filed.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

Regular computers must be united into a sophisticated computing network; big tasks should be broken into smaller ones; and all the possible contingencies — like slow internet or sudden computer shutdowns — must be taken into consideration. (Unless it’s a high-end supercomputer with a computing capacity of 10 000 regular PCs.)

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Gust

MAY 24, 2012

This is nothing new; long favored by family-controlled media empires such as Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation , among Internet firms alone, Google took a dual-class approach when going public in 2004.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MAY 15, 2013

Tweet During the dot com boom around the year 2000, and the years that followed it (this was before I started blogging in 2004), I was a guy in his early twenties looking for a business idea to make my riches with online.

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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Not mentioned in the movie is the unbelievable story of a Peter Thiel one of the founders of PayPal investing $500,000 in 2004 in exchange for approximately 5% of Facebook. At a current U.S. Run With the Right Crowd. Through this professional and personal network, Thiel sees lots of great startups.

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allthingsd.com

AUGUST 24, 2012

Still, it is the highest amount increase since Fenwick began compiling the numbers in 2004. Internet/digital media and software was the biggest beneficiary of the rise. AllThingsD.com is a Web site devoted to news, analysis and opinion on technology, the Internet and media. Tricia Duryee. Arik Hesseldahl. Lauren Goode.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2011

The Internet and social media have totally destroyed the meaning of the word “friend” and even changed it from a noun to a verb. Maybe that’s why so many people are hurt or defrauded every day by someone they assumed was their “friend” on the Internet. In my opinion, it’s impossible to know, like, and trust someone you have never met.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 29, 2015

By the time I co-founded what became Mobius Venture Capital, Softbank (our sponsor – at the time we were called Softbank Venture Capital) was the key investor in Yahoo, E*trade, and a number of other large US-based Internet companies. I used to think that these large companies had a clear view on how to help small companies.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

He was swiftly followed by Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic in 2004. But what if your true mission is to “reduce the amount of boring content on the internet”? You’d think that no one could recreate a product so sophisticated and advanced as space rockets, right? In 2002, Elon Musk created Space X. The solution: build a brand.

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