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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. January of 1995.

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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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When VCs Don’t B t You

Feld Thoughts

His name will be familiar to plenty of you – it’s Fred Wilson. The prior fund that I had co-founded – Mobius Venture Capital – had blown up after having a very successful first fund in 1997. Fred can ask me for help on anything he wants for the rest of his life and I will always be there for him.

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Should You Serve Fair Trade Coffee?

Up and Running

Certification began in 1997, as a concrete way to ensure that a fair trade certified (FTC) label on a product meant that a series of milestones had been met, and a socially conscious consumer could rest easy with their purchase. Thorough internet search. USD per pound), despite changes in the market.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

They need a combination of capital and experience to separate from the rest of the pack – the low cost of starting a business means it is even more vital to become the market leader more quickly. In 1997, the year the Kauffman Report begins its analysis; there were 70 million users online globally. There are 20x more consumers online.

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Transcript of How Reducing Friction Increases Revenue

Duct Tape Marketing

Back in 1997, Jeff Bezos was talking about frictionless shopping when most companies were just thinking about getting serious about being online. I have an internet cable provider and I have a satellite TV provider and they both kind of fall into that category of not getting it, making their experience really high friction.

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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. I started my business namely to help others and to improve upon the aloof customer service being presented in the IT industry. That’s what spawned the idea that I can do better and namely how computer users deserved much better.