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Revenue Development

K9 Ventures

This was when the state of the art was click-to-refresh HTML form-based chats. The hosted offering worked by having users place an “HTML-snippet” on their own website, which would retrieve the Java Applet from our servers and connect back to our servers. In 1996, when I started my first company, SneakerLabs, Inc.,

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Escapin' through the lily fields I came across an empty space

aweissman.com

All of it made me think back to my youth, the days of AOL, around 1995-1997. 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. Until it didnt.

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Design for Startups: The Aesthetics of Web Apps in 6 Questions

www.readwriteweb.com

Developers dont usually think much about how element should sit on a screen together, so you see a lot of items crammed together or unevenly distributed. Most developers are smart enough to do html, css, and javascript. To design like a teenager in 1997 using MS publisher is incredibly painful. so they do.

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