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In a Strong Wind Even Turkeys Can Fly

Both Sides of the Table

We worked together at Andersen Consulting between 1996-99 when the markets were booming. Increasingly it became difficult to tell any system integration company apart and there was a whole new breed of competitors in the market helping companies build Internet businesses. Most of the Internet startup consulting firms went bankrupt.

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26 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

If you search the word “Affygility” we are the only company in the entire internet that displays. Third, when choosing a company name, you want something that can be used as an internet domain name that’s relatively short (would love 8 characters or less, but most of those are taken and expensive to secure). Try it and you’ll see.

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Innovator Behind a New Tech App That Makes it Effortless To Do Some Good

Hearpreneur

After that, the nonprofits are great about engaging their donors through emails, social media, events, and PR. I worked on one of the first internet banking platforms in 1996 and it is now part of a major banking institution in the Midwest. What makes you unique? What is your unique selling proposition (USP)?

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Why the Browser Matters

Ben's Blog

Before my partner Marc Andreessen and his friends at the University of Illinois invented the browser in 1993, most people thought only scientists and researchers would use the Internet. The Internet was thought to be too arcane, insecure and slow to meet real business needs. The implications of the propriety vision were not good.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). I got my start programming on an old IBM XT; it was thanks to MUDs that I first discovered the internet. Thanks to the anonymity of the internet , I landed a few jobs, and did quite a bit of writing.

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

Both Sides of the Table

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. It’s no longer necessarily just a long-form, audio on format — it’s becoming part of the fabric of the Internet. Back then there were “email forwards.” Video is the new HTML.”

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The REAL Story Behind Growthink

Growthink Blog

When I first moved to California from New York in 1996 I saw the success of juice bars. And with the internet in its infancy there was no social media marketing I could do, nor job board-type sites that I could post on. As I mentioned, my wife had been working in PR, and her efforts were getting her hotel in lots of magazines.