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. In the first edition, The Information Super Highway was to be the logical successor to the Internet, but definitely not using Internet technology.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 7, 2014

In my first real company, Feld Technologies, there were two founders – me and Dave Jilk. But we stayed after it and built a successful company that was consistently profitable and acquired by a public company in 1993 for a few million dollars. I was a CEO once. At the time it was acquired, we had 20 people.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

At the Clinton Global Initiative last September, Pierre Omidyar, co-founder of eBay, announced a commitment from his philanthrocapitalist firm to invest millions of dollars in mobile applications and services, with a focus on developing markets globally.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 14, 2014

I’d sold my first company, Feld Technologies, in 1993. By the end of 1994 I had a staff job, reporting to the co-chairmen of AmeriData where I travelled all over the US helping with acquisitions and generally causing trouble. But we came very close to moving to Homer in 1995. We were living in Boston at the time.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

IBM had a near death experience in 1993, and moved from a product-centric hardware company to selling a complete set of solutions and services. After failing dismally at making disposable digital cameras in 2003 Pure Digital Technologies reinvented their company in 2007 to make the Flip line of camcorders.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

In 1993, Word 6.0 They had a couple experienced co-founders, including the now legendary Reed Hastings, but the problem was that they were stuck at about 300,000 customers. Those were the technology-powered innovations that enabled the new, much more desirable business model. WORD FOR MAC – Martina Lauchengco.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2011

Fundtech develops transaction banking solutions that automate activities such as payments, cash management, settlement, liquidity management, and the financial supply chain, and was founded in 1993. ICQ FOUNDER SELLS ISRAEL’S DOTOMI FOR $295 MLN. GE LIGHTING BUYS ISRAELI LED CO LIGHTECH. ValueClick Inc.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Startup Culture Lessons From Mad Men - OnStartups , July 26, 2010 The following is a guest post by Brian Halligan who is my co-founder and CEO at HubSpot (which means he gets to do most of the really hard work). California Milk Processor Board) – 1993. Consider the case of the last company I co-founded, SiteAdvisor.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 29, 2011

This is a guest post by Marc Andreessen, co-founder and General Partner of Andreessen Horowitz. Undersecretary for International Affairs and then Deputy Treasury Secretary for President Clinton between 1993 and 1999. For those of you too young to remember, Reagan was a noted Republican.). Became US Treasury Secretary in 1999.

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