thebarefootvc

MAY 13, 2017

One of the reasons I started investing in the blockchain space 4 years ago was the rush I got learning about the tech at my first bitcoin conference – akin to the chills I got when I first logged into the Internet in 1994, when I was deeply passionate about more equal access to education.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2014

Charley was a partner at a firm called VIMAC and was looking at some Internet stuff. I was one of the most prolific Internet angel investors in Boston at this point (1994 – 1995) so our paths crossed periodically. .” One of the VCs I overlapped with while in Boston was Charley Lax. Do you want to help out?”

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thebarefootvc

JULY 13, 2017

One of the reasons I started investing in the blockchain space 4 years ago was the rush I got learning about the tech at my first bitcoin conference – akin to the chills I got when I first logged into the Internet in 1994, when I was deeply passionate about more equal access to education.

Finance 40

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

The company was decimated by the collapse of the Internet bubble and ultimately went bankrupt. After I sold my company and started investing in companies in 1994, Charlie and I talked regularly about the Internet, which was just emerging as something that large companies should pay attention to.

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Technical Review Boston Internet Venture Capital 150

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

I’m going to start by going back to 1994. We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet. I looked at the future predictions for “modem speed” (as I called it back then, today we’d called it internet connection speed or bandwidth).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

There was a lot of consumer internet activity again…resurgence of things, but it was still mysterious, venture capital was still kind of closed, 1st time entrepreneurs had a lot of questions that were unanswered, and there was still some sort of hand waiving around all the financing stuff and so we took it on….”. was starting.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

The first protocol of SSL was developed in 1994 with the intention to solve increasing concerns regarding both cyber and internet security, and since its birth, https or an SSL certificate has become a website ‘norm.’. Since the inception of the SSL in 1994, the TLS was also birthed.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 3, 2015

In 1994 Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said, “retail banks are dinosaurs, they can be bypassed,” in a Newsweek interview. Over two decades have passed since he made that statement, but the Internet has helped change the banking landscape remarkably. by Jake Dacillo, Marketing Director, Balboa Capital. Small Business Loan Overview.

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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. Howard Schultz brought the espresso bar concept from Italy to the United States and grew Starbucks into a global phenomenon. True, your business aspirations may be on a more modest scale than these world-famous brands.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 28, 2018

His far lesser known accomplishment is starring in the birth of internet retail. On August 11, 1994, the first ever ecommerce transaction occurred when a 21-year-old in New Hampshire named Dan Kohn sold a copy of Sting’s Ten Summoner’s Tales to a friend in Philadelphia who paid $12.48 by credit card.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 28, 2012

This shift occurred due to the rapid pace of innovation with the onset of the Internet, the proliferation of information and the empowerment of consumers with a mind-numbing number of choices. Andrew Chen said CTRs have fallen from a high of 78 percent in 1994 (via HotWire) to.05 Paid advertising channels follow the same pattern.

Technical Review 150

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Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2014

And we did, until the internet came on the scene a couple of years later and left us holding our floppy disks in our hands. Beth developed her own intensive curriculum and, with the help of seed money from a student, founded YogaFit® in 1994 to fill the niche. We thought, “Hey, we can do that!” My next venture didn’t fare much better.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 28, 2022

As early as 1994, he had guessed that the Internet would be the next boom, and people would prefer to buy things online in the future. He surrounded himself with great people, thought strategically, and his exceptional insights about technology and its possibilities got him where he is today. 14- Arianna Huffington.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Every 10-15 years, a major cycle reshapes the computing landscape: PC (1981), Internet (1994), Mobile (2007). Of course, upcoming IPOs like Snapchat will bring some added excitement to the industry. We also believe that we’ll get more clarity on what the next platform will be.

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Technical Review Early Stage Portfolio Valuation 60

The Equity Kicker

JULY 14, 2014

When asked why he founded Amazon he said that he was working on Wall Street in the early 1990s when someone showed him how fast the internet was growing he knew that something very important was happening. You can see from the chart below that the number of internet hosts grew 10x from 1989 to 1993 – that’s roughly 2x a year.

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Egypt Internet Metrics Hosting 145

Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

In 2012, most everyone takes the Internet for granted and believes its emergence to be a logical, evolutionary step. A review of the technology press in 1993 and 1994 reveals that almost nobody believed the Internet would be important. Marc released Mosaic in 1993.

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Romania Software Review Cloud Mobile 77

Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

Let us look at examples of the last two major computing cycles (prior to the Internet). As you can see, we are poised to hit the major adoption wave for the Internet technology platform over the next 8 years. The internet is working. A lot has changed since the internet bubble eleven years ago. Today, there are over 2.1

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Technical Review Software Review Valuation Internet 76

Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

It is truly a wonder when you start thinking about the massive scale that Amazon works at and how far the company has come along since 1994. They've made internet shopping a breeze by constantly researching and improving warehousing facilities to ensure that things can be ordered and dispatched quickly. 7- Netflix.

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Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur Technical Review Software Review 77

Growthink Blog

APRIL 19, 2010

Step 1: The first thing I did was go to the Internet to try to solve the problem myself. He said that it would cost about $300 to fix it, but that the dishwasher was installed in 1994 (16 year ago; well before we bought the house) and that it was probably a better bet to just buy a new one. for showing up and diagnosing the problem.

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Idaho Marketing Technical Review Sales 87

Hunter Walker

JULY 3, 2021

And every once in a while I fact-checked monologue jokes or ran across NYC to pick up celebrity-related props (the vintage denim jacket photoshoot they appeared in pre-stardom, the Japan-only release of a terrible movie they’d try to bury) — you have to remember this was 1994–95 and the consumer internet was still largely in its formative stages.

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Japan Restful Internet Programming 113

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 14, 2019

Thanks to stories shared across the internet, the urgency to demonstrate success through real estate investment runs deep. between 1994 and 2008. The general consensus is that real estate investments have the highest potential to supply the cash flow needed to run a business.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

.” While hindsight is a wonderful thing, back in the dark days of 1994 when Amazon was founded, the Internet was far from the mainstream consciousness, so it’s understandable there would be a lot of hesitation to pump cash into this very early e-commerce initiative. ” continues Bezos. H/T – Dev Khare.

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Framework Internet Hosting Restful 156

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 21, 2017

Since I started investing in 1994, I’ve been dealing with the annual cycle of the hot new thing. Here are a few from the 1990s: Internet, World Wide Web, Browser, Ecommerce (with both a capital E and a little e). Here are a few from the 1990s: Internet, World Wide Web, Browser, Ecommerce (with both a capital E and a little e).

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Artificial Inteligence Cloud eCommerce Social Network 90

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 18, 2013

It’s hard to imagine that networking giant Cisco has been in Singapore for 20 years, playing a part in helping Singaporeans get online for the firs time in 1994. “Singapore’s vision is very much aligned with Cisco’s especially when it comes to Internet and education, two of the great equalizers in life.”

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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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Venture Capital Reputation Affiliate Conversion 70

David Cohen

MARCH 30, 2020

This recession lasted until 1994. In 2000, the Internet bubble burst. In the early 1990s, we were in a recession triggered by reduced defense spending at the end of the cold war, the 1990 oil price shock, and a savings and loan crisis. I didn’t really see how it would affect me. By 2002 the NASDAQ had fallen by nearly 80%.

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Founder Valuation Startup IP 174

Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

In 2012, most everyone takes the Internet for granted and believes its emergence to be a logical, evolutionary step. A review of the technology press in 1993 and 1994 reveals that almost nobody believed the Internet would be important. Marc released Mosaic in 1993.

Romania 44

Romania Software Review Cloud Mobile 44

abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

I began covering Dell as an equity analyst for First Boston in early 1994, and over the six years that followed, Dell’s stock would appreciate 100x; a remarkable and perhaps unprecedented run of value creation. ecommerce Internet retailing Uncategorized Venture Capital Web/Tech Ecommerce Retailing Stitch Fix'

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eCommerce Technical Review North America San Francisco 62

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 PayPal was introduced in 1998, consumers have been buying and selling online since 1994. Online Shopping.

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United States Mobile Internet Naming 100

Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 23, 2016

We were all investing in Internet-related stuff at the end of the 1990s. Jerry and Fred had one of the most successful VC funds during this time period until the Internet bubble burst and blew us all up for a while. 1985 – 1994 was the initial entrepreneurial Grind. “We’re still just scratching the surface.”

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Merger Stock Internet America 70

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2011

They first started in 1994 and are therefore almost as old as the Web itself. I know that any time ads are mentioned it makes the blood boil on any self respecting technologist the same way it did when HotWire ran their first ad in 1994 and the way it made Google’s blood boil when Overture launched the sponsored search category.

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Advertising Social Media Silicon Valley Media 352

Board Effect

APRIL 20, 2020

Eheart founded the nonprofit in 1994 on the site of the former Chanute Air Force Base. Foster and adoptive families have served their role in the community by completing 90 adoptions between 1994-2019. In the Beginning. The force behind the Hope Meadows community, a 501(c)(3), was a visionary by the name of Brenda Eheart.

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Illinois Community Government Leadership 59

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. All hell broke loose when Edward Snowden leaked all this to press.

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Silicon Valley Russia Security Customer Development 335

YoungUpstarts

MAY 8, 2015

A visionary in the hosting space, Enright founded one of the first North American hosting companies, ValueWeb, in 1994, increasing revenue to more than $20 million before the company merged with Affinity Internet.

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Hosting Cloud Employee Programming 100

Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 18, 2011

Before the Internet (1970 to 1994). Pre Internet Bubble (1995 – 2000). The Internet Bubble (2001 – 2002). Comments of any sort are welcome and encouraged! The table of contents, as of today, follows. The Boulder Entrepreneurial Community. Boulder As A Laboratory. Led By Entrepreneurs.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 12, 2017

I remember back in 1994 when a friend asked if I’d like to buy a domain name. I’m not a domain investor myself, but, after spending 10 years in Internet marketing working for companies like Expedia and Partner Fusion, a leading marketing and technology incubator, I’ve seen many signs pointing to the value of new exact-match domains.

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Naming Arlington Matching LLC 104

Mucker Lab

MAY 20, 2013

1994 – “Consumers are fickle and unpredictable. Consumer products and services are hit driven, it’s really hard to build a scalable consumer company”. 1996 – “It’s impossible to get to build a billion dollar company selling widgets at $15 and taking $1 commission one at a time”.

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