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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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2014

Shortly after that VC investment, the VCs hired a new “professional” CEO who lasted less than a year before being replaced by a CEO who then did a great job building the company. Charley was a partner at a firm called VIMAC and was looking at some Internet stuff. Do you want to help out?”

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Berkonomics

MAY 4, 2023

This time they are aided by tail winds brought on by the rapid spread of access to the Internet and AI. 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.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Consumer Internet investing seems to have split off from traditional Venture Capital, and is creating a new category of VC’s: Lean VC’s. The Rise of the “Lean VC’s” – Consumer Internet Gets Funded. First, my students are confused about who to talk to and how to think about funding their consumer internet startups.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 10, 2022

Amazon's hiring strategy is one perfect example of innovation. Beginning in 1995 as BackRub, Google slowly and steadily began to conquer the world. It’s very admirable. Thanks to Edward Flower, Hollington Doors Ltd ! #4- Photo Credit: Adam Garcia. The company uses a social recruitment platform.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

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. Again, Seth: “One of the things I noticed when I looked around at startups is that often the founding teams hired people just like themselves. We then spoke about startups.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2012

What Job Are Your Customers Hiring Your Products To Perform? What Job Are Your Customers Hiring Your Products To Perform? I’m Not The Product, But I Play One On The Internet - [link]. Hire For Cultural Fit Over Competence - [link]. This is what the internet looked like in 1995. crowdSPRING Blog - [link].

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Berkonomics

JUNE 22, 2017

This time they are aided by tail winds brought on by the rapid spread of access to the Internet. In 1995, thirty-five million people used the Internet. By 2024, ninety percent of the global population will have regular Internet access. That is six-tenths of one percent of the world’s population. Worse, 3.1%

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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 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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VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

Barclays Capital is opening a financial technology research and development center in Israel and plans to hire up to 200 people. McAfee’s products and services aim to secure systems, networks, and mobile devices around the world, allowing users safer connections to the Internet, and to browse and shop the Web more securely.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2017

The colossal size of the internet can make standing out difficult for even the most unique businesses out there. Morebeer.com is a homebrew equipment supplier that started as a mail order company back in 1995.

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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. They hire local employees or family. They hire the best and the brightest. Fast forward to today. They make up 99.7%

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

In 1995 Paul started a company that aimed to put art galleries online. Harness the internet to validate your business idea. The UK has a similar scheme called Barclays Cycle Hire (affectionally dubbed Boris Bikes after London Mayor, Boris Johnson) which was started in 2010 with the aim of making journeys from point A to B shorter.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 20, 2013

In the last decade, however, that common wisdom has shifted, at least for consumer internet companies. And yet, many of the greatest success stories of the internet era involve founder/professional CEO partnerships. s Tim Koogle helped build Jerry Yang and Dave Filo’s startup into the world’s most valuable internet company.

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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. What designers and developers can we hire? Make sales or die. Since then I’ve co-founded three successful companies: TypeFrag, Carbonmade and Uncover. It’s revenue.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

You’ve come full cycle from vision, to hiring some people, raising some cash, arguing about direction, setting a release date, missing a release date, feeling like you’ve effed everything up, regrouping, rethinking, getting back on track and then setting your baby loose into the wild. Internet pioneers. of your product.

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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 22, 2011

You’ve come full cycle from vision, to hiring some people, raising some cash, arguing about direction, setting a release date, missing a release date, feeling like you’ve effed everything up, regrouping, rethinking, getting back on track and then setting your baby loose into the wild. Internet pioneers. of your product.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the best tricks I learned during our startup was a rule for deciding who to hire. During the Internet Bubble there were a number of startups founded by business people who then wentlooking for hackers to create their product for them. But it was easy forthe meaning to slide over into hiring a lot of people fast.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Internet businesses are harder and harder to name since the dot com is still the leading TLD. We had been developing the company’s product for a while, but we needed to find a name in 1995 to incorporate the company. He hired my new firm to get more media attention. Thanks to Mike Okhravi, DocChat ! #7 Image Credit: Roger Wu.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 29, 2006

Microsoft plans on investing for the long term and putting another $2b into the Internet and other new technologies like the XBox. " Looking at the long term, I am quite excited about the prospects of all of this money coming into help grow the Internet sector and SaaS. inside the company."

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

When I began practicing law I was hired by a firm where billable hours and collected fees were the only considerations for advancement. Soon, I had more work than I could handle, and had to hire another attorney and staff member. Thanks to Dean Cycon, Dean’s Beans Organic Coffee Co. ! #19 Image Credit: Nancy D.

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