Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

There were startups and a software industry but barely. The browser and thus the WWW and the first Internet businesses were born circa 1994–95 and there was a golden period where anything seemed possible. There was no money train. It was 1991. We still loved every moment. People were building. If we took them public we are naked now.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

And when Jeff Bezos started Amazon in 1994, many people had never even heard of something called the internet. Tim Berry, the founder of Palo Alto Software and Bplans, says there is no better starting point than looking in the mirror. True, your business aspirations may be on a more modest scale than these world-famous brands.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Michael Parekh , a Wall Streeter for over 20 years, former Partner at Goldman Sachs, and Founder of its Internet Research effort in 1994, Michael has been living online since the early days of CompuServe in the 80s and AOL in the ’90s. He has been granted two software patents, and has multiple patents pending.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 27, 2013

I couldn’t write a single line of code, and I didn’t have any clue how to start a business. They told me it was impossible to pick up coding. Back in 1994, when Jeff Bezos started Amazon, he had to raise money from 22(!) Learn to code. I didn’t write a single line of code until 12 months ago.

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