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.

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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. For decades, Domino’s played second fiddle to market leader Pizza Hut.

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Start Up Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Buckle in – we are about to get the missing link to the Internet we were promised in the mid 1990’s. Miramax contended it had certain “broad rights” to “Pulp Fiction” because the director had “granted and assigned nearly all of his rights” to Miramax in 1993. When it comes to market growth, NFTs are the clear winner of 2021.

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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. I personally bought the citibank.com URL and introduced the first internet-based online banking. This was during the internet explosion, so I’d say it was called the digital revolution 1.0. What was it, and how did it come about?

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Starting clothing lines, restaurants, and production companies are some of the most common, but other celebrities think outside of the box. The rapper who brought us “U Can’t Touch This” and “2 Legit 2 Quit” is now trying to give us a new way to look him up on the Internet. Way outside of the box.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Ive been helping create software and Internet companies for over 25 years, starting with my first company, Feld Technologies, in 1985 when I was in college. We bootstrapped the business because we had to and by 1993, when we sold the company to a large public company, we’d built a nice, consistently profitable business.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

Pete Cashmore at Bloomberg Venture , July 7, 2010: By this point, anyone familiar with new media, technology, social media, and the Internet know Mashable, seeing as how it’s currently one of the largest, most profitable blogs around. Aneesha Raghunathan at Raising CEO Kids , Dec.

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

1993 ; Moriarty & Scheiner, 1984 ; Poulton, 1965 ; Coghill, 1980) ). Sassoon, 1993 ; Rubinstein, 1988 ). There are plenty of studies that show no difference between the legibility of serif and sans serif typefaces ( Tinker, 1932 ; Zachrisson, 1965 ; Bernard et al., 2001 ; Tullis et al., 1995 ; De Lange et al., 113-123 ).

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Start Up Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2012

The first free downloadable graphical web browser ‘ Mosaic ‘ was launched in January 1993. The second phase was the one that confirmed this internet thing was not just a passing fad. It is this kind of product/ service mash-up that entrepreneurs need to be thinking of.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2011

The company will also receive a single grant of 400,000 shekels to set up a beta-site to prove the product or service’s application in the local market. The company has developed a kind of private advertising channel that enables advertisers to send marketing messages directly to potential customers via Internet banners.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

The internet and almost universal access to it has meant that hundreds of millions of people can share their ideas, opinions and stories at the drop of a hat. In order to survive, a business needs to have somebody to make the product, to deliver the service, to manage the money, to manage the brand, the social media and so on.

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Start Up Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Web zealots have been espousing the end of Television since the first internet graphical user interface Mosiac started getting downloaded in 1993. So the battle for eyeball supremacy between TV and the internet never actually happened. It’s 17 years later and TV hasn’t disappeared yet. All these screens know where they are?

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 9, 2015

And then the Internet happened. And somewhere along the way, storytelling started getting replaced by “content creation”—a term that didn’t exist before the Internet. Some of the most discerning consumers aren’t just buying a product anymore. A product gets prospective customers in the door.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Three years later, you can’t throw a stone on the internet without finding articles starting to talk about the importance of craft in content. Our tagline was putting BYTE into productivity. I landed on Craft Your Content, as the whole point to learn how to better craft their content work. 3- While working under pressure.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 6, 2010

Design fees are at a 1993 level, despite salary increases and operation costs. Also natural organic cosmetics and health-care products. Definitely a bloke thing, and one that got sent round the internet, great to see. Even looking at the internet, and phone technology. We also managed to get a rather fitting number plate!

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 6, 2010

Design fees are at a 1993 level, despite salary increases and operation costs. Also natural organic cosmetics and health-care products. Definitely a bloke thing, and one that got sent round the internet, great to see. Even looking at the internet, and phone technology. We also managed to get a rather fitting number plate!

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

SaaS 101: 7 Simple Lessons From Inside HubSpot - OnStartups , July 19, 2010 It’s been a little over 4 years since I officially launched my internet marketing software company , HubSpot. California Milk Processor Board) – 1993. Showscase your products and services. I got a taste of that within my first weeks on the job.

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