The Next Web

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

It had survived the global financial crisis without taking a fatal hit, the client base was steady if marginally declining and the numbers that matter were looking up again. A lot of people joined the industry from 1995-96.”. There were niggles, but nothing that needed a hospital visit. Image via JES AZNAR/AFP/Getty Images.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Between 1995-2002 I visited often – especially since I founded my first company there. Scenes from my counter-top on my last night in Dublin. I recently returned from a 5-day visit to Ireland, my first time back in 10 years and the start of what I hope will be a more regular travel schedule there.

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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. Show me the money. So how are they making their big money?

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

In 1995 the company went public and overnight I became the CEO of a public company. How can we optimize for global distribution. You need to produce your own content so you are in control globally. Then in 1991 I came up with a product for developers that turned out to be important enough to build a company around.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 3, 2015

Berkeley in 2010 to run the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship in the Haas School of Business we were teaching entrepreneurship the same way as when I was a student back in 1995. We’ve gone global as well. Haas global footprint. Clearly, lean works globally. In fact, it works globally. Berkeley-wide.

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Berkonomics

MAY 4, 2023

Consider this bit of recent history: In 1995, thirty-five million people used the Internet. Email readers, continue here…] By 2024, at least ninety percent of the global population will have regular Internet access. That is six-tenths of one percent of the world’s population. Consider the numbers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2013

By definition, Gen-Y is the generation born between 1977 and 1995 (synonymous with Millennials). In fact, according to new data from a recent j2 Global survey , Gen-Y is undergoing a significant career shift today, trending away from applying for jobs and toward launching businesses of their own. I’m accepting the challenge.

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Start Up Blog

AUGUST 22, 2015

There are only 3 things you need to know as to why it (or a crypto currency) will eventually dominate global commerce. It might take 10 or more years, (think back to what the internet mean to you in 1995), but it is going to do for money, what the internet did for information. Nobody controls bitcoin. It is a thing.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2018

Below is a collection of nudges, curated from my global experiences, influenced by research and data I’ve access to. Yes, from 1995! Yes, from 1995! In-stock status. Life of current price. Direct competitor comparisons. Delivery times based on geo/IP/mobile phone location. Social cues to the rescue. Personalization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2017

With every business being global in scope and always-on, a phone-in service available in a local time zone during work hours only, is not competitive. Generation Z (born after 1995) is a new major spending demographic, who expects to do everything via their smartphone, and lives on YouTube videos, instead of reading instruction manuals.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

At the Clinton Global Initiative last September, Pierre Omidyar, co-founder of eBay, announced a commitment from his philanthrocapitalist firm to invest millions of dollars in mobile applications and services, with a focus on developing markets globally. I have just started a new job with the Omidyar Network.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

This is the youngest demographic, people born after 1995, who are sought-after by all new businesses. Gen-Z members have grown up in an un-tethered world of smart-phones, tablets and WIFI, and their perspective is both multi-cultural and global.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2018

s progress on gender diversity issues has slipped below the global median. Even lower down the ranks, the number of women tech companies employ has declined – from 37 percent in 1995 to 24 percent in 2016 — and is predicted to decrease further in coming years. Cast a wide net. Compared to other countries around the globe, the U.S.’s

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Berkonomics

JUNE 22, 2017

In 1995, thirty-five million people used the Internet. By 2024, ninety percent of the global population will have regular Internet access. This time they are aided by tail winds brought on by the rapid spread of access to the Internet. That is six-tenths of one percent of the world’s population.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2010

By definition, Gen-Y is the generation born between 1977 and 1995 (synonymous with Millennials). In reality, Gen-Y is here, and they are already inheriting our businesses, so let’s figure out how to make them winners, or we will all be losers. At many companies, employee costs are the largest operational expense.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 28, 2014

For those who have so quickly forgotten the global financial crisis of 2008 – 2010, one of the main reasons Boulder was so minimally impacted was the strength of the startup community – not just for employment, but for discretionary spending as well. It’s also not the Boulder of 1995. Or innovation. Or ethnicity.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Sure you hear more about hackers targeting big tech companies, but they also target small businesses and startups because they’re more vulnerable and while the implications may not be as consequential to global economy, they’re much more devastating in the scope of personal and small business success.

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Brandanew

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Arbor brewing company was set up in the summer of 1995 in Ann Arbor, Michigan by the husband-wife duo of Matt and Rene Greff. The Arbor Brewing company also has a microbrewery and has recently established global presence in India. Were you worried that you may not be able to control your global brand experiences?

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 10, 2018

I’ve been a member of the North Face global athlete team for over 10 years. 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. #13- References my roots in climbing and spoke to the usage occasion for the line of instant coffee. Photo Credit: Matt Segal.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 28, 2011

So the alternative of a global currency will emerge. Probably as a function of the gold standard (global price of gold as the trading valuation mechanism) with some form of digital instant and unseen conversion from our home currency into some quantum derived from gold. People born after 1995 have never know life without the internet.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 27, 2019

Huffington continued her success by creating Thrive Global, an online platform dedicated to helping individuals balance work and life. Since 2016, Thrive Global has been the go-to place for women in business. Fertel agreed, and by 1995 the steak house has expanded to over 80 locations. How did she do it?

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

The average venture capital fund raised between 1995 and 1997 returned more than 50% per year. 2010 was a year of firming and climbing out of a hole, but the tepid IPO market and general macroeconomic malaise seemed to linger until late in the year (similar to how 1995 felt). But what if it’s actually more akin to 1996?

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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. Already, thousands of people had started creating their own globally accessible web pages focused on whatever they wanted. That actually wasn’t the biggest.

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Through the process, I was struck by just how much marketplaces have evolved since eBay sparked the first wave of product-focused marketplaces in 1995. It’s still early, but with the emergence of blockchain, there is a huge potential to disrupt global commerce. Here are the top six changes, and there are many more to come.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

Prior to AxialMarket, Peter held positions in private equity at SFW Capital Partners and was part of the founding team at Gerson Lehrman Group, where he helped build the firm’s dominant global marketplace for on-demand business expertise. Over the last decade, Dan has served on more than a dozen public and private company boards.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 10, 2022

Beginning in 1995 as BackRub, Google slowly and steadily began to conquer the world. The team at Twelve believes that it will ultimately be able to compete with fossil fuels and will replace petrochemicals on a large scale, which will meaningfully cut global energy emissions. Thanks to Georgi Todorov, Thrive My Way ! #19- 19- Hy-Vee.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

O’Reilly’s article describes two businesses from his own career at O’Reilly—the Global Network Navigator (GNN) web portal, which he sold to AOL, and the Website web server, which eventually fell by the wayside. If O’Reilly had that same insight in 1995, it could have been an amazing blitzscaling opportunity. It’s a great business.

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Austin Startup

MAY 14, 2019

However, the seeds had been planted between 1995 and 1999 with the opening of several hackerspaces and “work clubs” devoted to bringing people together and instilling a sense of community while working. The 2018 Global Coworking Survey shed some light on the numbers behind who uses coworking spaces.

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Austin Startup

MAY 24, 2017

By 1995, membership grew to 50 women, and the group wrote its first bylaws, incorporated with the state of Texas as a non-profit corporation, formed a board of directors, and gained support from a community advisory group. Providing leadership skills for the next generation of Austin women leaders. SheSays Austin Who?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

In 1995 Netscape changed the rules about going public. Sandberg had been the vice president of global online sales and operations. So how did we go from VCs discarding founders to founders now running large companies? Seven major changes occurred: It became OK to go public or get acquired without profit (or even revenue).

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The Department of Transportation was created in 1966 but it wasn’t until 1979 that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ( NHTSA ) started crash-testing cars (the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety started their testing in 1995). In 1984 New York State mandated seat belt use ( now required in 49 of the 50 states.).

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

I bought Forevervinyl.com back in 1995 and went online. I started a consulting firm called Global Marketing Resources, LLC in 2000 as source for additional income while I was a corporate executive. 13 years later, GMR Web Team is the face of my business while Global Marketing Resources is just a legal entity that owns GMR Web Team.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Previously, he was Vice President of Global Business Development for Massive, Inc., After graduating from the ACL in London, he began his career in financial markets in 1995 as an equity and portfolio manager at Standard & Poor in London, taking up further posts at Alfred Berg/ABN AMRO in Moscow and PBS in Switzerland.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 11, 2012

There’s no hard and fast start date for Generation Y, or the Millennial Generation, but 1980 through 1995 is generally considered the time Generation X gave way to Generation Next. Finish this TV show lyric: “Heroes in a half-shell…” If you can without cheating , you’re probably a Millennial.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Pierre Omidyar founded AuctionWeb in September of 1995, and its rise to fame is legendary. We estimate that the global GMV for ride sharing was over $100B in 2018 (including Uber, Didi, Grab, Lyft, Yandex, etc) and still growing handsomely. Specific benefits of global internet marketplaces: Increase wealth distribution (all examples).

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2014

A global rethinking of economic growth amid mounting environmental concerns. The downsizing of America’s workforce between 1979 and 1995, coinciding with now-familiar leaps in executive salaries and the shipping of American job overseas, began to cast doubt on the values of hard work and company loyalty.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

We had been developing the company’s product for a while, but we needed to find a name in 1995 to incorporate the company. GMR stands for “Global Marketing Resources.” 3) Global point of view and the value of diversity and difference. Thanks to Collin J. Slattery, Taikun Inc. ! #19 19 – A True Measure.

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