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. Three revolutionaries will replace the current IT dictators: Cloud , Mobile and Social. The king is dead, long live the king. In fact, many new companies employ no IT people at all.

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Up and Running

MAY 6, 2015

John: Number two thing you must convey is that you care about mobile users. Mobile obviously trending hugely up. I think two-thirds of emails are opened on mobile. You must have a mobile friendly website. Four out of five websites actually are not responsive, not mobile friendly. You built your website in 1993?

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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. eBay is likely the most efficient “accelerator” to have existed to date.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 3, 2016

Since we’re a mobile app company we wanted a product name that was short, easily remembered, non-controversial and at least somewhat descriptive of the service. When filing for incorporation ATLAS Technologies was already taken, so Mobile was added since that’s our focus. Thanks to Steve Wood, ATLAS Mobile Technologies. #3

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Start Up Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

A car won’t just be a car – it will be a mobility service. 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. Imagine a subscription coming with your next new car.

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Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Big tech has long had a history of phoenixes rising from the ashes… think near death of Apple which in the long run came to dominate mobile computing, or IBM which went from a dying “Big Blue” to todays “THINK” which dominates tech services and much server-side computing.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 2, 2015

By 1987 I was regularly using faxes and Federal Express (the only overnight mail I was aware of), but a mobile phone and email didn’t really show up until around 1993 for me. The web appeared in 1994 and a completely different method of communication started its long march into integrating in our universe.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 19, 2012

I first thought of raving fans when I read Ken Blanchard’s book by the same name in 1993 when I was CEO of Feld Technologies (my first company). And it’s something that is magically enabled by the current state of technology – mobile, video, real-time social – a bunch of things have come together than make this work.

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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. It’s 17 years later and TV hasn’t disappeared yet.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 31, 2021

In 2009, they were almost out of cash and building a prototype for a service that would send text messages to any mobile device. In 1993, the company reported losses of around $8 billion, one of the most enormous company losses until that time. One of my favorite business turnarounds is the story of the founders of WhatsApp.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

In 1993, Word 6.0 BBC MOBILE – Alex Pressland. This work ended up fueling a dramatic shift at the BBC from broadcast content to content distribution, and this work dramatically impacted reach, and soon became the basis for BBC’s Mobile efforts. WORD FOR MAC – Martina Lauchengco.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

But in the private sector he’s done a number of amazing things; he headed up mobile at Google, then went back into the Pentagon where he was the youngest Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense ever in the Pentagon. Out of MIT, Sumit joined the US Air Force as part of Cyber Command and was one of the first officers in network warfare.

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