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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

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.

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Austin Mourns the Loss of Lori Hawkins, Pioneering Tech Journalist and Pillar of the City’s Innovation Story

SiliconHills

When Lori Hawkins joined the Austin American Statesman in 1994 to cover technology, the city looked vastly different from what it does today. It was the dawn of the information age, an economy built on computers, software, and the commercial Internet. Dell was just ten years old at the time.

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Digital Transformation And The Evolution of Apps – What’s The Link?

YoungUpstarts

While data serves as the backbone to digital transformation, software applications (apps) are where the magic happens, because businesses are already using an average of over 200 applications. It was launched in 1994, and had over 10 inbuilt apps. Before iOS and Android, there was IBM’s Simon, the first ever smartphone.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

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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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

I’m going to start by going back to 1994. There seem to be two schools of thought on how to predict the future of information technology: looking at software or looking at hardware. We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Disruptors

Hearpreneur

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. He has also been an outspoken advocate for the power of collaboration and open-source software. No company has even come close to the colossal number of orders it receives on a daily basis.

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Head, Heart, and Hands: 3 Essentials for Startup Success

Up and Running

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.