Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

As late as November 1995, Bill Gates wrote a book entitled The Road Ahead in which he predicted that the Information Super Highway would rule the future. After Mosaic, even Marc and his co-founder Jim Clark originally planned a business for video distribution to run on top of the proprietary Information Super Highway , not the Internet.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 14, 2016

The distribution of work is changing as people work with technology in a loop; where intelligence meets automation to create a progressive future. Prior to founding EnableSoft in 1995, Richard was a partner and served as Senior Vice President of FiTech PLUSmark, Inc. EnableSoft serves over 500 corporate clients worldwide.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 10, 2018

In 1995, had it not been for the internet and the task of shortening our company name to a web address, it would never had happened. To date, we have distributed several hundred care packages and over 13,000 i understand tee shirts to show others we are stigma-free. Thanks to Jared Fisher, Escape Adventures !

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

One could argue that there’s nothing new here, as Internet distibution models started in 1995. But these VC’s aren’t Lean because they fund startups with web-based distribution models. Lean VC’s are expert in on-line distribution, Agile and Customer Development. Lessons Learned.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. If O’Reilly had that same insight in 1995, it could have been an amazing blitzscaling opportunity. Plenty of headroom there!

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

The biggest happened much earlier in my career, in 1995.”. I’m sure it sounds unbelievable today, but in 1995, Fujitsu was a much bigger company than Apple in those days. Because that company was Netscape, the company that released the first widely adopted web browser. In January 1995, it had around 100 employees.

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aweissman.com

APRIL 14, 2010

All of it made me think back to my youth, the days of AOL, around 1995-1997. Indeed you can still see today he uses the same modified AOL logo he used back then: As a platform, this worked precisely because AOL provided the two key components every platform must deliver to create value: distribution , and monetization. Until it didnt.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

To say he has had an impact on the web would be an understatement. GoTo.com went on to ink huge distribution deals with Microsoft, AOL & Yahoo! In 1995 Netscape IPO’d and browsers started to become more prevalent. Last night I had the great privilege to interview Bill Gross , one of the Internet’s true pioneers.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. Pierre Omidyar founded AuctionWeb in September of 1995, and its rise to fame is legendary. billion of GSV (gross services revenue) across 2.0

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Netscape and Opsware, which he helped found, went public with single-class share structures in 1995 and 2001, respectively. Web Designer (Req.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 22, 2011

I’m an infopreneur who uses the Internet as a medium for distributing and monetizing information. My Internet Infopreneur’s Journey The year was 1995, and the Internet had just come to India. I was an early adopter, and found myself fascinated at the global reach and access the World Wide Web offered at my fingertips.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

The cost of creating new companies is falling rapidly, and access to markets, distribution, and information is within the reach of anyone with an Internet connection. For example, over 25% of the technology companies founded between 1995-2005 had a key immigrant founder. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

Jerry Maguire : A sports agent is fired from a prestigious sports management firm after pulling an all-nighter to draft and distribute a mission statement to the whole Company detailing how they should be doing business. Referral from Daniella Norwood, owner of my web designer, Ella J Designs ).

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