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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

Feld Thoughts

When we syndicated the purchase of the Buffalo, New York cable system, we literally called everybody we knew and raised an unprecedented $16 million, a breathtaking sum in 1980. “By January 1984, investors had turned away from hardware toward software.” This isn’t true. This statement is scary to me.

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

This is another joint event between HBS Angels of NY and the HBS Club of New York. 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.

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

I’m a huge fan of William and his writing as you can see from my review of his book Avogadro Corp. 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. Take a look – and take your time.

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6 Tips for Coming Up With Your Million-Dollar Business Idea

Up and Running

In the early 1990s, my brother was working for a company that was going through the roof selling shareware software via catalog. Beth developed her own intensive curriculum and, with the help of seed money from a student, founded YogaFit® in 1994 to fill the niche. reviews, reputation, Yelp!, In the end, the review?

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How Black People Leveraged Tech Bigotry to Boss the Blockchain Below the Radar

Austin Startup

I mean, our people invented so much and accomplished so much throughout American history from post-slavery to modern times but somehow, we black people cannot write lines of code, really? of all software utility patents to inert status. Code is Law Garbage. Trustless is Not a Human Nature.

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

alexpoole.info

Back in 1998 when Times New Roman was still widely used on the web, my then boss made sure we always designed our web sites with Arial, as she hated the look of serif fonts on the web. In 2003 as part of my master’s degree I reviewed over 50 empirical studies in typography and found a definitive answer. Introduction. Definitions.

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43 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

One industry where many have fallen victim and lost large amounts of money due to lack of information is the real estate industry. It was 1994: the Internet was still in its infancy and e-commerce was still a relatively new phenomenon. We couldn’t help but wonder why coding educational opportunities didn’t exist in the South.