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The Difference Between a PDF and an Accessible PDF

Women Entrepreneurs Can

A Portable Document Format or PDF file is a self-contained and independent file that does not rely on any software or hardware to display the contents. In 1993, Adobe invented the PDF format, and ever since, it has seen various updates, innovations, and modern features. The greatest attribute of PDFs is their universality.

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You Don’t Need To Be An Engineering Genius To Start A Billion-Dollar Company

ReadWriteStart

Software was expensive. ” Furthermore, he wrote, “back in 1993 we had to buy and continue to pay for maintenance on everything we needed just to build our service—operating systems, compilers, web servers, application servers, databases. You name it.” No Problem! Hardware was expensive. Storage was expensive.

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20 Best Biographies For Tech-Minded Students

YoungUpstarts

This fascinating story is his account of his incredible run from the Feds while cracking into the databases of such big names as Sun Microsystems and Motorola. Co-founding a software company has made Larry Ellison one of the richest (and most tabloid-worthy) men in America. Kevin Mitnick was the Frank Abignale of computer hacking.

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Customer Data Platforms: The Next Big Shift in SaaS Marketing Stacks?

ConversionXL

A Brief History of Marketing Technology Software. launched a contact management software. 7 years later, in 1993, Tom Siebel thought that Oracle (the company where he was employed) could have sold the internal sales application as a standalone product. All manual operations. Et voilà: the first CRM.

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Microsoft, Near Death, & Enterprise Cloud

Agile VC

In the late ’90s Microsoft was the world’s most valuable company and dominated virtually every category of software that mattered, and even some that didn’t matter that much (e.g. MSFT has more billion dollar software franchises than you can shake a stick at (Dynamics in SMB CRM, Sharepoint, etc). Want names?

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Why the Browser Matters

Ben's Blog

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 1996, there was no social networking, no video, no search that worked, no RSS, and no Twitter to name a few. I am naming your car ‘La Bamba.’”

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A Glimpse: My American Dream

thebarefootvc

I didn’t listen as I didn’t want to work with anyone that was intimidated by a NAME of all of things. I didn’t listen as I didn’t want to work with anyone that was intimidated by a NAME of all of things. And learn from each other.