1996 Internet Leadership Vertical 
YoungUpstarts
MAY 12, 2014
by Forbes magazine publisher Rich Karlgaard and author of “ The Soft Edge: Where Great Companies Find Lasting Success “ Avid market watchers know that the last two months have been devastating to fast-growth Internet stocks. A Berkshire Hathaway Chairman’s Letter from 1996 underlines that point.
Ben's Blog
APRIL 28, 2010
Jobs not only killed all the commodity hardware and the horizontal strategy; he went radically vertical. 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. He even added retail stores.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 12, 2017
But I knew I had to look for investments in “software meets X (often known as Vertical Software solutions)” rather than necessarily horizontal enterprise software applications. 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.
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