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Who’s Your Daddy? 5 Lessons from GoDaddy

Growthink Blog

The technology age has brought with it a long list of business related success stories. GoDaddy was created in 1997 as Jomax Technologies by Bob Parsons who had recently sold his other company, Parsons Technology Inc., That changed in 2001, however, and GoDaddy.com quickly grew.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. The fact that today’s Internet bubble does not represent all companies does not disprove its existence. Ah, but today’s Internet companies have real revenue!

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Are Things Moving Faster Than In 1999?

Feld Thoughts

When I started making venture capital investments in 1997, the pace of things, and the amount of work I did, was massive. After I sold my first company, I started a company called Intensity Ventures to make all my personal investments from. The name kind of says it all.

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My story and support for the Founders Visa

K9 Ventures

I graduated from Carnegie Mellon in 1997 and decided to use my OPT to give the company a proper shot. There were a sum total of three or four “venture capital” funds in Pittsburgh at the time, and none of them had done much with this new fangled thing called the Internet. I formed SneakerLabs, Inc.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

At Blurb, we’ve built an Internet platform for people to produce their own bookstore-quality books. has transformed from a small information technology components firm into a comprehensive and full-service IT computer hardware and support solution provider, servicing over 20,000 clients across the country. That’s it.

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

alexpoole.info

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