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True Story: How Bplans.com Started in 1995

Up and Running

January of 1995. Few people knew of the Internet, Mozilla, and the world-wide web. The so-called “Internet” had existed for years, but seemed to the rest of us (anybody outside of a few spook havens and ivory towers) like a nerdy background utility for emails. And I started bplans.com.

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Why Businesses Must Grasp Millennial Thinking Or Face Economic Calamity

YoungUpstarts

Millennials are the generation born roughly from 1981 to 1995, meaning that the older millennials aren’t that far from 40. Millennials scour the internet to learn about a brand or product before making a purchase. Think emails, text messages, and online messaging. and that’s a lot of buying power. Information is essential.

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How The New General Data Protection Regulation Will Affect Online Businesses

YoungUpstarts

On May 25, 2018, the European Union implemented new Internet regulations called the General Data Protection Regulation – GDPR, for short. The new regulations replace the 1995 EU Data Protection Directive and the 1998 UK Data Protection Act. by Gabriel Shaoolian, founder of DesignRush. Conclusion.

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How The Right Employees Have An Innovation Advantage

Startup Professionals Musings

These included the PC, mobile phone, the internet, and MRI imaging. For example, Google was already a big company when Paul Buchheit was unhappy with the capabilities of external email for internal communications at Google. Even more importantly, only two of the thirty innovations were scaled by the original creators.

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My First Experience As A Venture Capitalist

Feld Thoughts

But it occurred to me today – after getting another email asking me how I’d become a VC, that I wasn’t really answering the question. I was making angel investments with my own money and working my ass off helping get a few companies that I’d co-founded, like Interliant and Email Publishing, off the ground.

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Introducing the Rocky Mountain Artificial Intelligence Interest Group (RMAIIG)

Feld Thoughts

I met Dan in 1995, shortly after moving to Colorado, and we have been friends ever since. Dan started the Rocky Mountain Internet Users Group (RMIUG) in 1994, almost 30 years ago, eventually growing to over 15,000 subscribers on their email lists. RMAIIG was founded by Dan Murray.

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What we can learn from the evolution of Content Management Systems

The Next Web

Accessing the Internet on a phone was doable, but the experience was pretty bad. By the time everyone learned to use a mouse, handle a phone, use a computer, and send email, the market had become much bigger, and less tech savvy users started to use technology in everyday life. A look at how CMS evolved.

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