Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 29, 2015

When I started investing in 1994, I was involved with a few large companies. By the time I co-founded what became Mobius Venture Capital, Softbank (our sponsor – at the time we were called Softbank Venture Capital) was the key investor in Yahoo, E*trade, and a number of other large US-based Internet companies.

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2013

After a particularly embarrassing math bug in 1994 that cost Intel $475 million, the company decided to fix the problem by allowing it’s microprocessors to load fixes automatically when your computer starts. Yet the one company’s name that hasn’t come up as part of the surveillance network is Intel. The Dog That Never Barked.

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Silicon Valley Russia Security Customer Development 335

YoungUpstarts

JULY 5, 2016

As time has drug on, the Internet and technology have brought about new payment solutions, which make it possible to send money anywhere easily and more affordably. Although charge cards were basic, they were effective and make it possible for customers to make their purchase, without carrying physical money. Online Shopping.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 15, 2012

For those of us who were around in the wild days of the internet’s infancy, the fact that the familiar name is still an existing entity might come as a surprise. Though they retained the name and url, AltaVista search was acquired by Yahoo! WebCrawler. MetaCrawler. s, but the site is still in use and relatively popular today.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 8, 2015

Employees use a slew of apps — from those involving resource and customer relationship management to those for the financial and human resources departments — in order to complete their mission-critical tasks. Currently, big names like IBM and Red Hat have each released app marketplaces.

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blogs.computerworlduk.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

In case your computer industry history is lacking, WS-I is the industry consortium that got together a decade ago to create specifications for Web Services protocols (note the capitals, so as not to confuse with actual internet services that use HTTP and REST for loosely-coupled data access).

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abovethecrowd.com

JANUARY 30, 2015

In their seminal 1994 book Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies , Jim Collins and Jerry Poras coined the term BHAG (pronounced BEE-hag) — an acronym that stands for “ B ig H airy A udacious G oal.” As we turn the page to 2015, Uber has a new BHAG, and it’s name is UberPool. “Can you take me Higher?

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 3, 2012

Lopez and his family were living in a plastic tent in Barrio Nelson Mandela, Colombia, with $300 to his name. The bank lends to groups of women, with each receiving $50 to $100 to buy rickshaws for transporting wheat to market or to help them open Internet kiosks. Joyce Wafukho used her small savings to open a hardware store in 1994.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 23, 2014

For example, in 1994 Jeff Bezos founded Amazon from his garage in Washington, and Harley-Davidson started out of a home—and a shed—in Wisconsin. Questions to Ask Before Starting a Home-based Business: Before you set up an office in your basement and install high speed internet, ask yourself if you’re prepared to make this move.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

in it and that flimsy name-dropping “Blockchain Revolution” book was being published [fyi, that book is garbage], the African-American community has already been quietly working on blockchain/DLT technology and here is where this wonderful article begins. Stuff CNBC and other media outlets don’t want to acknowledge.

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Technical Review Silicon Valley Software Review XML 54

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Bezos reimagined the way leaders write, speak, and motivate teams and customers. No name for a company transforms the idea into one of the world's most admired brands. Remember, Bezos did not have a name for his company, and he didn't have a company. Now, these tools are available to you. So plus John, look, we're storytellers.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 18, 2011

From Brandt in the WSJ : In the summer of 1994, Mr. Bezos quit his job in New York as a vice president at the financial-services firm D.E. He and his wife, MacKenzie, moved to Seattle to take advantage of the explosive growth of the Internet and to start Amazon. At first, there were a half-dozen orders per day.

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