Both Sides of the Table

JULY 20, 2010

In 1996 I worked (then later lived for 8 years) in London and passed daily through Trafalgar Square. In 1997/98 I spent months in Barcelona. And then I started reading the International Herald Tribune lest I miss my daily dose of international politics. I think you see where this thing is heading.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

In 1996 RIM was still in the hardware business selling packet-switched wireless radio modems to OEMs. In 1997, RIM introduced the first packet-switched messaging device. Unlike the circuit-switched cell phone networks, pager networks were built around digital packet-switched technology. Sell Directly to Businesses.

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Pascal's View

JUNE 22, 2014

Today, 1997 is the leader. Finally, 2014 is has the fourth highest GDD accumulation, trailing only 2013, 1997, and 1996. These include this year, the year with the most accumulated GDD (1997), the year with the least accumulated GDD (1998), and the 21-year average.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Publishers and authors (like O’Reilly and us) also benefit from Amazon’s success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

According to Fox Business , women-owned businesses have increased 68% since 1997, running more than 9.1 The number of entrepreneurs who are Baby Boomer starting a business has grown from 14 percent in 1996 to over 30 percent last year. Most now routinely buy startups for new technology and new products. million businesses in 2014.

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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. The Internet business changed, completely, in 1996 when the AT&T WorldNet Service began offering"all-you-eat" (u nlimited access) pricing for Internet access. We spent much of 1997 renegotiating thousands of these deals.

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Kodorra

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Hotmail was developed by Jack Smith and Sabeer Bhatia in 1996. Its popularity made Microsoft make a move and agreed to purchase Hotmail in 1997 for a whopping $400 million. He is now a respected businessman all over the world. Hotmail (Rejected 20 Times by Investors). Today, Hotmail would have been a unicorn company.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/29/1996: 22.3. 3/31/1997: 23.3. If markets behave rationally, one might expect the ratio of price to earnings to be reasonably stable over the period (click here for complete data set). One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0. 3/31/1998: 30.8. 3/31/1999: 49.7. 3/31/2000: 73.4. 3/30/2001: 26.3. 3/29/2002: 82.5. 3/31/2003: 44.6.

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Pascal's View

OCTOBER 10, 2009

Combined with New Order Handling rules originally passed in September 1996 and implemented in 1997, these modifications to technical trading rules fundamentally changed how then-emerging electronic trading networks (ECN’s), such as Instinet, could buy and and sell stocks. This change to decimalization occurred in 2001.

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Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

i. Pre bubble period 1991-1996 totals $28 billion. ii. Bubble period 1996-2000 totals $243.6 Amount of venture capital raised has exploded. iii. Post bubble period 2001-2009 totals $218.2 Number of IPO’s has shrunk while average size has increased.

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BeyondVC

OCTOBER 18, 2007

In a scary way, it felt like it was 1997 all over again, and we were at a networking event in New York talking about their first startups. When I started as a VC in 1996 and first met many of these entrepreneurs, it was clear that we were all starting from scratch. We didn’t know what we didn’t know.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/29/1996: 22.3 3/31/1997: 23.3 If markets behave rationally, one might expect the ratio of price to earnings to be reasonably stable over the period (click here for complete data set). One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0 3/31/1998: 30.8 3/31/1999: 49.7 3/31/2000: 73.4 3/30/2001: 26.3 3/29/2002: 82.5 3/31/2003: 44.6 3/31/2004: 31.6

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

backed companies, went public raising less than $50 million at various times between 1971 and 1996. capital markets for listed equities have been in systemic decline since 1997. which happen to all be venture?backed These companies raised just $367 million in the public markets, and they account for 470,000 U.S. jobs today.

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ConversionXL

MAY 31, 2017

The first wave of messaging software arrived with ICQ (launched in 1996), followed by AIM (1997), Yahoo! Let’s be clear: Messaging isn’t some new, hot trend or magical technology. It’s been around since the mid-1990s. Messenger (1998), and MSN/Windows Live Messenger (1999).

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