Cracking the Code

APRIL 13, 2007

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. How the use of internet is transforming the software industry. In the past seven years, Internet has changed the business landscape and software has not been an exception to the rule. internet. (6).

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 19, 2010

Step 1: The first thing I did was go to the Internet to try to solve the problem myself. Step 2: So, my wife called an appliance repair guy who she found by doing some local searches online. Then, this morning, I started thinking about all these steps, and noticed some interesting marketing lessons.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

Similarly, Google, well on its way to owning the dominant smart phone operating system and which maintains a near monopoly position in search, trades at a price/earnings (P/E) ratio (ex-cash) of around 13.7. Let us look at examples of the last two major computing cycles (prior to the Internet). The internet is working.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2010

The magazine’s “Central Banker Report Card,” which has been published annually since 1994, grades Central Bank governors of 30 key countries, and the ECB, according to an “A” to “F” scale for their performance and success in areas such as inflation control, economic growth goals, currency stability and interest rate management. .

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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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Up and Running

APRIL 27, 2015

However, one area where he fell short was in ignoring the search engine market. While Microsoft introduced MSN Search in 1998, the site purely used an existing search engine, Inktomi, to gather results. One of his biggest mistakes since starting his business came in 1994, in the form of Virgin Cola.

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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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Mucker Lab

MAY 20, 2013

1994 – “Consumers are fickle and unpredictable. 1999 – “The search engine game is over”. 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”. Everything).

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. Discovery, in contrast to search, took center stage as Pinterest displayed hockey stick growth (and raised VC money near a $200M valuation in late 2011).

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Mucker Lab

MAY 21, 2013

1994 – “Consumers are fickle and unpredictable. 1999 – “The search engine game is over”. 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”. Everything).

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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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Brandanew

OCTOBER 26, 2015

In their own story, the Starbucks says, In a search for a way to capture the seafaring history of coffee and Seattle’s strong seaport roots, there was a lot of poring over old marine books going on. The siren remains at the heart of the Starbucks brand. Even when they recently took away the name Starbucks from the logo, the mermaid remained.

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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.” “Can you take me Higher? To a place where blind men see . Can you take me Higher? . Jeff Bezos.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 14, 2013

This ubertrend spurred a host of subtends, including reality shows, like MTV’s The Real World , which debuted in 1992; Celebrity Worship Syndrome , coined in 2003 and propelled by “pixel paparazzis;” HDTV in 1998; helicopter police chases, including the infamous 1994 O.J. Video Recruitment.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 9, 2015

And then the Internet happened. And somewhere along the way, storytelling started getting replaced by “content creation”—a term that didn’t exist before the Internet. As companies started coming online and search engines became the de facto discovery tool for prospective customers, the battle for keyword relevance on SERPs grew.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

APRIL 20, 2011

“Know what you want – and get it&# - Sushmita Sen, Miss.Universe, 1994 ‘Take what you want, and pay for it’ says God - Old Spanish proverb The Secret Of Success I’m going to tell you a little story. The man stammered, “Oh wise and all-knowing seer, I come to you in search of the secret of success.&#

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2018

In my field—online English language teaching—there are a lot of literal business names out there: Joe’s Internet English School, Learn English Online via Skype, etc. Today, a search of the term of “online dating expert” usually results with the Cyber-Dating Expert ranking at the top. 1- Suggestive and evocative name. I was horrified.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2015

It was 1994: the Internet was still in its infancy and e-commerce was still a relatively new phenomenon. That digital channels like search and social need not be looked at one at a time. LittleThings.com was started because there was a real void of feel-good, uplifting content on the internet. One less worry for moms.

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

See my comment above (search for ‘arm’). Hi Alex, thanks for your thorough search for evidence of differences in legibility between type faces with and without serifs. Unfortunately, the results were never published in English so you could not find it in your search. visual search (1). Lansdale, M.W.,

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 6, 2010

We also arrived at a rather pivotal and pertinent time in South African history, just after President Nelson Mandela was brought into power in 1994. Another one, one that actually never got used, but I still liked was EngineFarm … They are a web platform enabling users to find and create their own personalized google search engine.

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