abovethecrowd.com

JULY 17, 2013

The game is about to start, and you forgot to record it. DirecTV has supported this feature for some time, initially on the Internet via the browser and more recently via their smartphone application. For each and every Internet company out there, mobile is rising as a percentage of all user visits. It’s like magic.

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aweissman.com

APRIL 14, 2010

Indeed you can still see today he uses the same modified AOL logo he used back then: As a platform, this worked precisely because AOL provided the two key components every platform must deliver to create value: distribution , and monetization. AOL offered distribution through its thousands and then millions of users. Until it didnt.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

I have been thinking lately about how hard it is to scale start-ups. Facebook and Google would be obvious choices for this, but so much has been written about each of them and they represent such special business models, I worried that it would be both hard for entrepreneurs to relate and hard for me to develop new insights.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 12, 2009

I last wrote about the iPhone in November 2007 when my wife and her friends started getting iPhones.    Through various forms I have been involved from an investment perspective in wireless-related companies since 1996 when I made an investment in a company called AirMedia. 

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

But remember that when Jobs returned to Apple in 1996, he was doing so as the co-founder and CEO of NeXT computer, a marginal computer workstation company which Apple purchased for less than $500M. Knowledge of exactly what’s strong and weak about the code base. Knowledge of exactly what’s strong and weak about the organization.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 12, 2009

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← What is the Micropreneur Academy? of DotNetInvoice (my asp.net billing product) about 2 weeks ago. We launched version 2.5 The up-front fee was hefty, but this was too good to be true!

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

We recently wrapped up our strategy offsite, an annual event that brings together the members of our very distributed team – 12 different cities in four different countries – to discuss what our aspirations and ambitions are for the coming year. So from day one, my knowledge about how to do a startup was zero.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 26, 2012

For those of you that don’t know, Longreads is a Twitter handle ( @longreads ), and a web service ( www.longreads.com ) that points to the best long form content on the Internet. Like many great longreads, this article is about much more than its core subject, which in this case is a basketball team.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 22, 2011

I’m an Internet infopreneur. I’m an infopreneur who uses the Internet as a medium for distributing and monetizing information. Two things about it attracted me immediately. #1 Think about an author who writes a book. I built my first website in 1996. There is a deluge of data all around.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 12, 2011

Fifteen years ago, in 1996, while I was still a student at Carnegie Mellon University , I wrote an article (blog post in today’s parlance) about the future of computing. After a little bit of digging through old backups, I found a folder with drafts of a couple of my old articles/paper from 1996. Sunday, May 05, 1996.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 12, 2011

Fifteen years ago, in 1996, while I was still a student at Carnegie Mellon University , I wrote an article (blog post in today’s parlance) about the future of computing. After a little bit of digging through old backups, I found a folder with drafts of a couple of my old articles/paper from 1996. Sunday, May 05, 1996.

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Caching Java .Net Networking 73

infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

About Who the Heck is Uncle Saul? At the time of its launch, the name “cisco” was also confusingly similar to SYSCO, the $20B food distribution company. Readily Pronounceable – A name’s proper accent should be obvious, as made painfully clear in the 1996 Tom Hank’s Movie, “That Thing You Do!” infoChachkie. a farm credit bank).

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Imagine you want to store data about customers, each of whom has "last name" field in your database. Then, whenever you want to look up data about John Smith, you first connect to the "S" database, and then fetch the data you want. Ill talk about those goals, and then propose a system that I believe serves them well.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Are you an entrepreneur or small business owner with questions about funding your small business? If so, stick around—in this webinar, we featured a panel of experts to answer questions about funding your small business. Jared will you give us a little bit about your entrepreneurial experience. My name is John Bates.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

For those too young to remember perhaps the best known of this era came in 1996 and was known as Dancing Baby , a strange, animated gif of — you guessed it. Wasn’t Jonah worried about “platform risks?” I asked Jonah about his started position in photos, lists, GIFs and text and where he thought video fit in.

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