Board Effect

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Valve is a game developer corporation that started in 1996, making such electronic games as Alien Swarm and Left 4 Dead. The only correct approach is the one that works for them. Take a look at what these innovative companies have done. The company decided that they didn’t want or need a hierarchy, so they don’t have one.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

Follow him on twitter at @hertling or visit his blog williamhertling.com. Here’s an example using two personal computers, one from 1996 and one from 2011. Also, I chose a 1996 Toshiba Portege 300CT for a sanity check: if I project the trend between the Apple //e and Portege forward, my Droid should be about 1 cubic inch, not 6.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, October 4, 2008 About the author ( Update January, 2010: This post originally dates from October, 2008 back when I first started writing this blog. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). Eric, love the blog.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Back in 1996, Jennifer Anderson posed for a stock photo shoot shortly after graduating college. Credit for round up goes to the Idee blog. Blog eCommerce Resources Lead Generation SaaS Resources' Here’s the problem: Every other poor schmuck in every other vertical has used the Exact. Photograph. Meet The Everywhere Girl.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 20, 2019

Zoho has been offering SAAS (software as a service) since 1996 and boasts a huge slate of apps. The post Top 9 Best CRMs for Small Businesses in 2019 appeared first on crowdspring Blog. Need email ? Accounting software? A customer service system ? Zoho has them and over 40 more apps. One of their most popular apps is Zoho CRM.

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K9 Ventures

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

I started the company in December 1996, we sold the company in March 2000 (3+ years). Sometimes companies take on more capital than they should which results in indigestion for the company, or what I otherwise refer to as the curse of over-capitalization, but that’s a topic for its own blog post sometime.).

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Brad Feld (Brad is an advisor to K9) from the Foundry Group was instrumental in keeping the flame alive by posting about it on his blog ( The Founders Visa Movement ) in September. In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug.

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K9 Ventures

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

I started the company in December 1996, we sold the company in March 2000 (3+ years). Sometimes companies take on more capital than they should which results in indigestion for the company, or what I otherwise refer to as the curse of over-capitalization, but that’s a topic for its own blog post sometime.).

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Board Effect

MAY 1, 2019

HIPAA is a federal act that Congress passed in 1996 to help patients protect their personal and sensitive information. It’s crucial that boards perform their due diligence in learning more about the steps their college is taking to remain in compliance with HIPAA in order to avoid fines and liability issues.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

Still, since 1996, the only major change to the browser’s user experience has been the addition of tabs. In 1996, there was no social networking, no video, no search that worked, no RSS, and no Twitter to name a few. Search —Back in 1996 during the time of the last browser UI innovations, searching the Internet was very different.

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Brandanew

JUNE 3, 2016

Since 1996 when this statement was made by one of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs, the three words have gone really, really viral. Maybe that is one of the reasons why almost every brand created a content marketing campaign initiated by a blog but gradually they posted less and less, eventually abandoning the idea.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 6, 2017

It also isn’t any less true than it was Bill Gates coined the phrase back in 1996. Blogging, articles, and other types of sales and marketing copy are the easiest and most economical sources of that fresh content. The notion that “content is king” isn’t a new one.

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

Reporting in the Harvard Business Review on a major study of growth stalls they conducted, Olson and his colleagues cite the case of the iconic brand Levi Strauss, which hit a historic high mark of sales in 1995, reaching revenue of $7 billion, but then, starting in 1996, saw a decline in sales so precipitous that by 2000, revenue was down to $4.6

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2010

The 55-64 age bracket exhibited the highest rate of entrepreneurial activity every year from 1996 to 2008, while the 20-34 bracket actually had the lowest rate. As it turns out, you’re exactly the right age to be starting a business! ##### Today's guest blog is by Akira Hirai, the founder of Cayenne Consulting.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

The standards were set by the IAB ( Interactive Advertising Bureau ), which was founded in 1996. In the early days of the Internet as an advertising medium the industry organized to create “standard ad units&# for which most media companies would sell their inventory. Normalizing ad units obviously has a benefit.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

In our 12 Questions blog series, we feature interviews with someone from the crowdSPRING community. For these interviews, we pick people who add value to our community – in the blog, in the forums, in the projects. I finally was able to buy my first Mac in 1996 and I never turned back. It was loaded with Corel Draw 1, I think.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

A great guide to the balanced scorecard approach can be found in the classic 1996 book by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. “ The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action ” (Harvard Business School Press, Boston). Retirement benefits.

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Software By Rob

APRIL 7, 2009

Front End Developer Resume, An 11-pound Notebook, A 2-pound Netbook, and Internet 1996 | Software by… [.] Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. “Front-End Developer&# Resume – Awesome. inch screen that slides out of a 17-inch screen). Definitely needs to be a pyramid scheme though. #4

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

In our 12 Questions blog series, we feature interviews with someone from the crowdSPRING community. For these interviews, we pick people who add value to our community – in the blog, in the forums, in the projects. I finally was able to buy my first Mac in 1996 and I never turned back. It was loaded with Corel Draw 1, I think.

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OnlyOnce

OCTOBER 10, 2019

About 8 years ago, I wrote a blog post that talked about the story from my MovieFone days when I went from managing 1 person to 20 overnight and had to completely rejigger my Operating System to the new environment. It was a case of required revolution over evolution for me. Trial by fire. I feel like I am living in an analogous world now.

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help.bplans.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Tim Berrys Blog. Up and Running Blog. Copyright ©1996-2011 Palo Alto Software, Inc. Market Research. Start a Business. Business Plan Software. Sales and Marketing Software. Email Management. UK Business Plan Software. More Business Software. Affiliate Program. Contact Us. Compensating a consultant at start-up phase.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

In 1996, when I started my first company, SneakerLabs, Inc., Update (08/15/2010 11:23 PM): Patrick Vlaskovits posted a great followup to my post above on his blog: Distribution and Pricing Hypotheses with LOIs. we began by building chat servers. This was when the state of the art was click-to-refresh HTML form-based chats.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 6, 2012

Students in the class will be required to write a ten page paper as well as participate actively in the course (including on a class blog). Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity 1996 – 2010. Reading: The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses (Ries).

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 20, 2010

I promise not to turn this blog into a personal self-help blog! In 1996 I worked (then later lived for 8 years) in London and passed daily through Trafalgar Square. And thus the reason for today’s blog. Yesterday I wrote about the importance of choosing happiness. More later in the post.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Palm in a New Market What makes this example really interesting is this: rewind the story 4 years earlier to 1996. In 1996 no potential customer had even heard of a Personal Digital Assistant. In 1996 Palm was selling a product that allowed users to do something they couldn’t do before. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

There is a ton of history here that’s good basis for longer blog posts at some point, but for now I’ll leave you with the Flatiron Partners website from 3/29/98 along with a special bonus link to the Flatiron Partners 1996 Holiday Card.

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Board Effect

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The Communications and Decency Act of 1996 also offers some protection for infringement claims for nonprofits. Blogging is a major marketing tool for many companies. Informational blogs may be misperceived as advertising for products or services. These laws only offer protection that results from a third-party posting.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 25, 2014

I’ve had many requests to blog about my reading list but rather than do one big long post I thought I’d break it up into several “longish” different posts over time. Maybe it was awesome in 1996 when it came out, but it felt slow and dated in 2015.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Believe it or not, three years after founding the company in 1996, Larry Page and Sergey Brin actually tried to sell Google for $1 million. Christopher regularly contributes to Amsterdam Printing’s blog. . - Modest profitability. - The price offered was high for this type of business. No introduction is required here.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Freeloader — On $3m invested, sold for $38m in 1996 — shut down in 1997. Of course this is hindsight-based armchair speculation, easy to do from the comfort of a blog post. Support.com — On 2.5m invested, IPO’ed in 2000 for $32/share — stock price now $2.

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

To be clear, IPOs, particularly IPOs raising less than $50 million, have become largely extinct due to unintended consequences resulting from a series of securities regulations that followed the rise of electronic trading networks in 1996.

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Software By Rob

MAY 4, 2009

So I spent time honing PPC, SEO, a new design, a new cart, finding more dropshippers…and I finally hit on the big low price guarantee revelation I wrote about in my blog. 4 iWeb Blog » Nouvelles Techno iWeb: marketing web, f.lux, micro-entrepreneuriat on 05.05.09 I was pleased to say the least. at 8:00 am [.] at 9:58 am [.]

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2015

It used to frustrate me that I’d drive my car to the airport on the freeway, fly 30,000 feet in air in a tube and then hop into a dingy old car with somebody that looked like they hadn’t slept in 72 hours with a car that looked like it hadn’t been serviced since 1996. Still want to port my blog their.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Perhaps the most widely known (and hotly debated) priming study was published by John Bargh in 1996. Your previous ideas about the construct of a camel allow you to finish this sketch before it’s actually finished: Image Source.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 2, 2010

In addition, I’ve made many seed investments as an angel investor in two time periods,1994-1996 and 2006-2007, and seen many more through my involvement as a co-founder of TechStars. ?Our But before Foundry Group, my partners and I were involved in many seed investments, both at Mobius Venture Capital.

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Jeff Hilimire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

that’s Raj on the left, me next to him, and our two college roommates in 1996). I met Raj in college at UNC-Charlotte in 1996. The hardest part of that, as it turns out, is walking away from Raj for the first time in 15 years. Paired together as roommates, we were the most unlikely of friends. That put us on the map my friend.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 17, 2016

20 years ago, in the summer of 1996, a young David Beckham electrified the crowd at Selhurst Park. He’d noticed that Wimbledon keeper Neil Sullivan was off his line, which left him with an opportunity. It was a long shot — 50 yards long, to be exact. But Beckham went for it. And Beckham scored.

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