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

Both Sides of the Table

billion and revenues likely exceeding $250 million (Wikipedia lists 2015 revenue at $167 million). 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. 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. I was pre-revenue and was spending money working with companies to formulate my product, for product packaging, etc. 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.

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

During the Internet Bubble there were a number of startups founded by business people who then wentlooking for hackers to create their product for them. We alsothought wed be able to sign up a lot of catalog companies, becauseselling online was a natural extension of their existing business.But in 1996 that was a hard sell.

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