Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

Marc released Mosaic in 1993. A review of the technology press in 1993 and 1994 reveals that almost nobody believed the Internet would be important. The people of IT—CIOs, network engineers, system administrators, IT developers and their brethren—get captured and held hostage by the technological dictators.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 16, 2019

When I left Procter & Gamble as VP in Global Business Services and IT after a career of 27 years, I’d been associated with setting up the first shared services operation in the Philippines in 1993 — program managing an $8 billion dollar outsourcing deal. But debating the second question — about your business model — is absolutely valid.

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David Cohen

MARCH 30, 2020

You are the engine of our future, after all. I started my first business in 1993, right in the middle of the recession, because I didn’t know any better. We are all rooting for you to do this. You are the employers of tomorrow. This recession lasted until 1994.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

So my journey started, sort of my entrepreneurial journey I guess started in around 1993. We rode the re-engineering process, re-engineering craze in the 1990s, but we did it from a change management perspective. Jack McGuinness: Sure. So how do you bring the people along?

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 3, 2016

I wanted the word “Italian” in there and adding “culinary adventures” makes it easier to be found in search engines. When I founded the firm in 1993 management consulting companies tended to use a leverage model (the junior staff did most of the work) and projects were multi-phased often lasting months to years. 10 – Chemistry.

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David Cohen

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

In the early 1990’s, I got my first job out of college where I managed engineering at a company called ADS. In 1993 we co-founded our first startup, Pinpoint Technologies, alongside a third co-founder, Bob Durkin who focused on sales. This is where I first met David Brown, who managed operations for ADS.

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Up and Running

MAY 6, 2015

The search engines have done a wonderful job of really serving that up. Peter: John, what if I built my website in 1993 and maybe it’s due for an update? You built your website in 1993? Why would they be coming into your site on a different page? What’s causing that to happen? Jonathan: Hold on a second.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2018

This was in 1993, and I was the chief marketing officer at Frito-Lay North America. We started all these change projects--sensors in airliner engines, or in CAT scan machines, so we could tell management how valuable that data is for them to help run the business better. Your first big innovation was also a huge cultural moment.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Consider: in about 1993, Apple released the Apple Newton. Computers like the MITS Altair came before Apple and there were many search engines before Google. Maybe you have to work your way up to managing a restaurant before an investor will consider you. You also cannot forget that you need to fill a need.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 9, 2015

Google’s Ngram viewer (a tool that charts the usage of words in printed sources from 1800–2008) shows the precipitous rise of the words “content creation” around 1993-1994. As companies started coming online and search engines became the de facto discovery tool for prospective customers, the battle for keyword relevance on SERPs grew.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 31, 2021

He was ultimately approved after several years of application and soon progressed to the position of vice president of engineering at Cisco. In 1993, the company reported losses of around $8 billion, one of the most enormous company losses until that time. Photo Credit: Alex Williams.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

In 1993, Word 6.0 Necessity being the mother of invention, this is where the queue, the ratings system, and the recommendation engine all came from. In three month’s time, the team redesigned the site, introducing the queue, the rating system, and the recommendations engine all in support of Netflix being a subscription service.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 6, 2010

Design fees are at a 1993 level, despite salary increases and operation costs. Another one, one that actually never got used, but I still liked was EngineFarm … They are a web platform enabling users to find and create their own personalized google search engine. Users will be able to “skin” their own search engine.

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www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Bob Minor wasn’t an equal partner financially, and may not have been all that valuable as a contributor and manager past the start-up period — but he was a partner nonetheless until the day he died (which was in 1992 or 1993, if I recall correctly). CAM Dharmesh Shah says: October 13, 2006 at 4:53 am Great points.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 28, 2018

I began my career as an engineer and have always been committed to solving problems and running smooth business operations. I wanted our company name to really mean something and be indicative of the work we do. The acronym “RTG” in RTG Solutions Group stands for “Return to Green.” So I wanted my business name to embody this energy!

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

You know, in 1993, there was that old New Yorker cartoon with the dog logging onto a computer and it said, “On the Internet, no one knows you’re a dog.“ You know, in 1993, there was that old New Yorker cartoon with the dog logging onto a computer and it said, “On the Internet, no one knows you’re a dog.“

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Many of our job postings for Engineering positions describe the company as a place “where the word ‘millions’ is used frequently and in many contexts&#. California Milk Processor Board) – 1993. I got a taste of that within my first weeks on the job. Coming up with a memorable tagline can present an even greater challenge.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

Four of them—Dolby Laboratories (1965), Lucasfilm (now owned by Disney, 1971), Adobe Systems (1982), and Autodesk (1982)—were founded before the first tech boom started around 1993.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

MC Hammer’s search engine. His search engine, called WireDoo, is still not ready for a beta release, but Hammer says it has a “deep search” function that will make it better than Google by bringing up topics related to your keywords. Raquel Welch’s line of wigs.

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