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Who’s Your Daddy? 5 Lessons from GoDaddy

Growthink Blog

GoDaddy was created in 1997 as Jomax Technologies by Bob Parsons who had recently sold his other company, Parsons Technology Inc., At the time, a company called Network Solutions was essentially the only place from which people could register domain names. It was not very long ago that most people were unfamiliar with the Internet.

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True Story: How Bplans.com Started in 1995

Up and Running

Few people knew of the Internet, Mozilla, and the world-wide web. The so-called “Internet” had existed for years, but seemed to the rest of us (anybody outside of a few spook havens and ivory towers) like a nerdy background utility for emails. I immediately registered a few obvious domain names. And I started bplans.com.

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How AI And Big Data Are Changing Century-Old Media Companies

YoungUpstarts

by William Ammerman, author of “ The Invisible Brand: Marketing in the Age of Automation, Big Data, and Machine Learning “ In the early days of the internet, the news was always free. Yet, from the beginnings of the internet age, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) never caved. And in that, there is value.

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Twice in a Lifetime

Austin Startup

In the mid 1990s I knew that the internet was a game-changing technology. In 1997 I founded an internet company named Perficient, and it went public in 1999. The dawn of the internet age was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for a technology entrepreneur. Sometimes lightning strikes twice.

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The Valley Lacks Flexibility, Not Talent

ReadWriteStart

Let's face realities here: it's no doubt tempting and cool for many developers to work for Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook or Twitter to name but a few. Guest author Chris Heilmann has been a professional Web developer since 1997 and has worked in various agencies and corporations on large, international products.

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Why You Should Use Localisation in a Globalised World

The Startup Magazine

The advent of the Internet means that geographical and social boundaries no longer inhibit business and we are now living in an era of interconnection. of consumers said that ability to obtain information in their own language is more important than price and 72.4% In a Common Sense Advisory survey, 56.2%

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Are Things Moving Faster Than In 1999?

Feld Thoughts

The name kind of says it all. When I started making venture capital investments in 1997, the pace of things, and the amount of work I did, was massive. It’s not that things are moving faster, it’s that information is much more available and there’s much less friction around communication.