YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2018

by Gabriel Shaoolian, founder of DesignRush. 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. Conclusion.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

We’re now in the second Internet bubble. The Golden Age (1970 – 1995): Build a growing business with a consistently profitable track record (after at least 5 quarters,) and go public when it’s time. 1970 – 1995: The Golden Age. The world of building profitable startups ended in 1995. Carpe Diem.

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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. At the same time, I was beginning to realize that the Internet was fundamentally different from closed, proprietary online services like CompuServe or eWorld.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2011

Ben and his partner Marc Andreessen (the founder of Netscape and author of the first commercial web browser on the Internet ) are the definition of Smart Money. I’ve followed them with a few observations about the Internet that may help frame the scope of the debate. The Internet May Liberate Us. The Internet May Kill Us.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2021

So much so, that the internet is already filled with articles such as “ 5 money lessons millennials can learn from Gen Z ”, explaining how those who were born after 1995 are improving the ways in which they make a profit.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information. Mr. Lindzon’s new media and internet business investments also include: Limos.com, Blogtalkradio.com, Buddy Media, Ticketfly, Assistly, Bit.ly and Tweetdeck (purchased by Twitter in June 2011).

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

is the CEO and co-founder at ShoutEm , a self service mobile website and mobile apps creator, a ‘Wordpress for mobile apps.’. Accessing the Internet on a phone was doable, but the experience was pretty bad. In 1995, I was the only one of my friends using email and there were no cell phones. Viktor Marohni?

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 20, 2013

Savvy founders don’t just focus on iterating their own products – they look to other industries and niches for inspiration and opportunity as well. To find out which industries tech founders should look to next, I asked a panel of 13 founders the following: What is one industry (or niche) tech founders should be exploring now, and why?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Such was my recent meeting with Seth Sternberg, founder & CEO of Meebo. Before we filmed the segment we had the chance to chat over lunch over the direction of the Internet and how social was changing the fabric of the web. And I’d recommend them to any talented startup founders out there.&#. And there you have it.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

The Wall Street Journal is phasing out support of the Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser. Internet Explorer. Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

In the first of a new series talking to tech industry leaders about what shaped them as entrepreneurs and the lessons they’ve learned in their careers, we speak to Netflix co-founder and CEO, Reed Hastings. In 1995 the company went public and overnight I became the CEO of a public company. I was just in shock!

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

Before my partner Marc Andreessen and his friends at the University of Illinois invented the browser in 1993, most people thought only scientists and researchers would use the Internet. The Internet was thought to be too arcane, insecure and slow to meet real business needs. The implications of the propriety vision were not good.

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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. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2012

I’m Not The Product, But I Play One On The Internet - [link]. 10 Lessons I’ve Learned During My First Three Months As a Founder (by Len Kendall) | Technori - [link]. This is what the internet looked like in 1995. Small Business and Startups: Dear Santa - [link]. Which links get the most clicks in email newsletters?

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

This is a guest post by Christian Gheorghe, founder and CEO of Tidemark. In 2012, most everyone takes the Internet for granted and believes its emergence to be a logical, evolutionary step. A review of the technology press in 1993 and 1994 reveals that almost nobody believed the Internet would be important.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 3, 2021

And every once in a while I fact-checked monologue jokes or ran across NYC to pick up celebrity-related props (the vintage denim jacket photoshoot they appeared in pre-stardom, the Japan-only release of a terrible movie they’d try to bury) — you have to remember this was 1994–95 and the consumer internet was still largely in its formative stages.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

This is a term indicating the use of “crowd appeal” to get money from interested people on the Internet for a share of your company. This is the youngest demographic, people born after 1995, who are sought-after by all new businesses. They have never seen a world without the Internet, and they now have real spending power.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Remember, we’re on the Internet right now, and the Internet is owned by cats. My business niche is “entrepreneurs” and “founders”. I combined those 2 things to come up with “FOUNDER FREEDOM ”. Thanks to Rachel Whynot, FOUNDER FREEDOM ! #22- Thanks to Dave Davies, Beanstalk Internet Marketing ! #27-

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Take Craigslist founder Craig Newmark , for example. He went on to work at IBM for almost 17 years and served as a programmer at several major financial firms before launching Craigslist from his apartment in 1995 as a way to share information. Here are three ways you can put your STEM skills to use as an entrepreneur.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 28, 2011

There are 5 senses, and we still can’t experience 3 of them on the internet – so we must complete the connection / transaction off line…. The internet is trying to mimic the real world. The internet is in every second pocket. These founders are imbuing their new businesses with the values of our time.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

This is a guest post by Christian Gheorghe, founder and CEO of Tidemark. In 2012, most everyone takes the Internet for granted and believes its emergence to be a logical, evolutionary step. A review of the technology press in 1993 and 1994 reveals that almost nobody believed the Internet would be important.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Thanks to the technology boom and the advent of the internet, today more than ever people are able to open their own business and nurture their startup ambitions. For Diane Goldwin, founder of AquaMobile Swim School , that meant establishing a detailed agenda that balanced her day job with her dream.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 12, 2016

This is dangerous, especially for founders. The last was dinner with Alex Rigopulos, the co-founder of Harmonix, which he co-founded with Eran Egozy in 1995, sold in 2007, bought back in 2010, and is still running today. Its founders sometimes give the impression of still being a bit shaken. I’ll be 60 in 2025.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

That said, even renowned founders and investors like Paul Graham have made mistakes. In 1995 Paul started a company that aimed to put art galleries online. Y Combinator - another company that Paul helped to co-found and that helps startups get funding, with particular emphasis given to those started by young, tech-savvy founders.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 19, 2011

. “As originally appeared on Huffington Post “ Fauzia Burke is the Founder and President of FSB Associates, an Internet marketing firm specializing in creating online awareness for books and authors through web publicity, blogger outreach, social media, digital branding and web site development.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 15, 2018

One of my first investments, when I moved to Boulder in 1995, was in a company called Email Publishing, which was the very first email service provider. While RSS has disappeared into the plumbing of the internet, there’s still something fundamental about it. One of our themes is Protocol. SMTP has been very good to me.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 19, 2011

software, Internet, clean tech) but then pick a thing that you really care about and a set of problems you want to solve. If you aren’t technical, go find a technical co-founder right now – there are hundreds of them on this campus. Pick that domain that turns you on the most – start at a high level (e.g.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 18, 2013

As the founder of one of the earliest online marketing companies, creator of Squidoo , and author of multiple best-selling books , American entrepreneur Seth Godin needs little introduction. Information is there online, to any one of the billion people who has access to the Internet. “They used to be the same thing.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 28, 2011

Periodically the meme surfaces that “the only place you can create a great software / Internet company is in the bay area.&# Sure – it’s had it’s ups and downs, but when I lived here from 1983 to 1995 the entrepreneurial vector was awesome. Everyone else, including VC’s like me, are participants.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 20, 2013

20 years ago, the classic startup model was to have young founders start a breakthrough company, then bring in “grey hair” in the form of experienced executives once it was time to scale the business. In the last decade, however, that common wisdom has shifted, at least for consumer internet companies. During the dot com era, Yahoo!’s

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Fortunately, the rise of the Internet, and specifically Internet marketplace models, act as accelerants to the productivity benefits of the division of labour AND comparative advantage by reducing information asymmetry and increasing the likelihood of a perfect match with regard to the exchange of goods or services.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 9, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Joining me in SiriusXM’s studio in New York were: Drew Silverstein , co-founder and CEO of the music technology venture Amper Music. Drew Silverstein.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Microsoft did not open a Washington office until 1995. Small businesses are grocery stores, hairdressers, consultants, travel agents, internet commerce storefronts, carpenters, plumbers, electricians, etc. Fast forward to today. There are 5.7 million small businesses in the U.S. They make up 99.7% They hire local employees or family.

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Spencer Fry

JULY 16, 2013

A little background on me for anyone who hasn’t been reading my articles since 2009: I started selling on the Internet when I was eleven years old, in 1995. Product has been all founders care about. Make sales or die. Since then I’ve co-founded three successful companies: TypeFrag, Carbonmade and Uncover. It’s revenue.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Amazon saw that the internet would change retail. If O’Reilly had that same insight in 1995, it could have been an amazing blitzscaling opportunity. Thanks to the internet and other globalizing technologies, the entire world has entered the Networked Age. Nowhere in our book do we recommend that all entrepreneurs blitzscale.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. It’s a very tough decision to walk away from a senior role at what I consider one of the most successful tech companies of Internet era. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0, Internet pioneers. It was 2007.

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Ben's Blog

JANUARY 2, 2014

Hardly a day goes by where I don’t find something in my Twitter feed crowing about how a startup that’s hit a bump in the road is “fu&%@d” or what an as*h%le a successful founder is or what an utterly idiotic idea somebody’s company is. The Internet. We do not recommend its purchase.”. Stores will become obselete.

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