Diego Basch

MARCH 4, 2011

Fast forward to 1997. A few months later the first mp3 search engines start to pop up. My linear search with grep held up pretty well for the first few days, but as soon as I started getting concurrent queries it slowed down to a crawl. Basic, Pascal, Assembly, C. I download my first mp3, a novelty back then.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

Industry Week’s Feb 11th, 2006 article reported Maytag’s “quality nightmare” with it’s Neptune washing machine back in 1997. A quick search on epinions.com , and you see what consumers conclude to be the best dishwashers. And we did. But not anymore. Things are different. So what happened? That no longer works.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2013

Jim has founded six companies, including Preview Travel, one of the first online travel agencies, which went public in 1997 and subsequently merged to create Travelocity.com as an independent company. Jim Hornthal splits his time between venture capital, entrepreneurship and education. And Zignal Labs. Jim co-taught classes with me at U.C.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 16, 2016

I started doing some serious soul searching and realized that what I really loved to talk to people about and study was health and wellness. I soul-searched long and hard before I decided to build my business because I was very happy being a real estate agent helping a few clients at a time realize their dreams.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Back in 1997, Randy Parker was staring at a blank whiteboard, wondering where hed find the money to hire the employees and consultants he needed to build his new product. "We I advise my clients that you offer stock only after youve searched your heart and soul and cant come up with a way to pay with anything else," says Thomas H.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

This probably wasn’t a fun period of time for a new VC but nonetheless probably made Mike stronger than having started in 1997. Provides publishers innovative site-search tools that enhance user engagement ( icanhazcheeseburger.com and Fred Wilson’s blog avc.com use Lijit as does Feld.com [but he's an investor]).

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

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. The Pros and Cons of Fair Trade Coffee. Pros: Keeps grievous violations at bay.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2016

Hillary has been working to make government more accessible and available online for nearly two decades, starting as a web designer for Arkansas.gov in 1997. Then we went to work on building a search website for the FEC, completely redoing their interface to the data (so people can actually search) from FEC.gov.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 26, 2011

Since 1997, he has led an independent consulting practice focused on helping businesses of all sizes elevate performance and achieve healthy growth. I challenge my clients to build their businesses from the outside-in, rather than taking the very common approach of developing a product and then going out in search of a market.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

In 1997, the year the Kauffman Report begins its analysis; there were 70 million users online globally. According to Google data 30% of all restaurant searches now come via mobile devices. Search for a restaurant, book a table, eat in 30 minutes. Search for movies times, book your tickets, see a show.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

In fact, at the time (1996-1997) we offered both a downloadable product, that our customers could install on their own servers, and a “hosted-offering”, which came to be known as “On-Demand”, then the “ASP” (Application Service Provider) model, and today we call it “SaaS” (Software as a Service). In fact, that wasn’t Google’s idea at all.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Publishers and authors (like O’Reilly and us) also benefit from Amazon’s success.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

All of this changed in about 1997 when U.S. Computers like the MITS Altair came before Apple and there were many search engines before Google. It cost too much (over $1,000), it weighed a lot and it had poor handwriting recognition technology. Robotics’ Palm Pilot was released. The technology had caught up with the idea.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 7, 2020

My goal is to show up as the #1 search result when people search for a word counter so we can capture millions of clicks per month. We are doing everything we can to boost our search rankings, and we have drastically increased our budget for content creation while many others have slowed down. #10- Photo credit: Kim Chan.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

While many trek to Whole Foods in search of organic, healthy foods (though the store sells other less healthful options as well) major locations are about more than bringing home groceries. Build-A-Bear stores starting springing up in 1997 and have grown in popularity, with locations around the world today. Build-A-Bear.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 30, 2019

Back in 1997, Jeff Bezos was talking about frictionless shopping when most companies were just thinking about getting serious about being online. So first of all, they will rank the products and the way they think that best fits your search. And throughout the years he’s made that just a point of relentless emphasis.

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Kodorra

DECEMBER 2, 2018

After an intensive and extensive search, they came across Draper Fisher Jurvetson who agreed to offer them a total of $300,000 for the project. Its popularity made Microsoft make a move and agreed to purchase Hotmail in 1997 for a whopping $400 million. Despite rejections from some credible investors , they did not lose hope at all.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 15, 2011

In 1997, I got married. Maybe it’s something esoteric and exotic like searching for signs of alien intelligence. Late to Bed, Early to Rise, Makes an Entrepreneur, Happy, Cheerful & Nice! What gets you so excited you can’t wait to begin working on it today? Think about it while you read the rest of this post.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Amazon priced it''s IPO in 1997 at approximately $500M (the $18 IPO price was an increase from the $12-$14 range) and first trade was at $29.25 We should also remember that Amazon went public at a time (Q2 1997) when many companies were pulling IPO filings because the market was beating up Internet valuations. or a market cap of $800M.

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Diego Basch

MAY 16, 2011

It reminds me quite a bit of mp3 files in 1997, when they were just a novelty and record companies didn’t know what to make of them. It was obvious to me that digital music was going to be huge, so I spent six weeks hacking nonstop on my own mp3 search engine.

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Up and Running

APRIL 5, 2021

By 1997, the pop-up plague had spread to sites across the net, including Geocities, AOL, and The New York Times. This is particularly useful before search engines pick up new pages and display them in organic search results. Analytics should help determine where visitors might get stuck and be open to a helpful pop-up.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Tom is coauthor of In Search of Excellence—the book that changed the way the world does business and is often tagged as the best business book ever. He is the co-author of In Search of Excellence, the book that changed the way the world does business and is often tagged as the best business book ever, 20 books. This is John Jantsch.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2012

brrhodes : IceRocket search engine founder and CEO Blake Rhodes tweets about his insights into social media and the online world. RickM : Rick Myers is the founder and CEO of Talent Zoo, tweeting all about digital jobs searching. FuelOnline : Fuel CEO Scott Levy has been working in social media and SEO since 1997.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2015

1980-1997), you are now part of the largest generation in the workforce? This could cover anything from a contract position that wasn’t extended to having taken a job that was a filler while you searched for your career starter. by Rose Ernst, national director of the G10 Associates program at Genesis10.

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Mike Michalowicz

JULY 13, 2015

When Christine started Balance Your Books in 1997, her vision was to create an accounting advisory firm that focused on the growth of entrepreneurs, their business, and their financial health. Jared shares with us how Fundera works! SPOILER ALERT! We talk about the Jurassic World movie. Our Guests. Christine Gray (left). SPOILER ALERT!

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blog.teamtreehouse.com

DECEMBER 5, 2012

🔎 Search. Ben Gremillion started playing with pixels in the mid-1980s and building websites circa 1997. Get 1 Month of Gold for Free! ($49 Learn More. ␡ ← Back to Treehouse.  Websites. 👤 Membership.  Facebook.  Twitter.  Google Plus.  YouTube.  RSS. Learn More.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 19, 2021

You can listen to the podcast here, or search for Greymatter Podcast in your podcatcher. For example, in 1997, I had not realized that you need to invent and reinvent your go to market strategy together with your product idea. WHAT DOES A BOARD OF DIRECTORS DO?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

I’d like to explain as best I can my opinion on what is going on because most of what I hear from entrepreneurs is not only wrong but is reminiscent of what I heard in 1997-2000. What is the True Sentiment of VCs? Usually only an “ exogenous event ” that causes a shift in the amount of supply or demand.

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ConversionXL

MAY 31, 2017

The first wave of messaging software arrived with ICQ (launched in 1996), followed by AIM (1997), Yahoo! And as soon as an email address is entered, the app can automatically store it and search the web for relevant info that’s linked to that email address (e.g. Let’s be clear: Messaging isn’t some new, hot trend or magical technology.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 21, 2016

said Steve Jobs when he returned to Apple in 1997. Also, as we know last few years mobile search has overtaken desktop and that’s the reason we have spent a lot of time to improve the mobile user-experience as well. Thanks to Abhishek Lal, VedSutra. #10 10 – People With Passion. Photo Credit: Al Park. And he did.

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). See my comment above (search for ‘arm’). Hi Alex, thanks for your thorough search for evidence of differences in legibility between type faces with and without serifs. Unfortunately, the results were never published in English so you could not find it in your search. Review article.

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www.readwriteweb.com

DECEMBER 22, 2011

I started using my first content management system around 1997, when things were crude and clumsy. Web services relies on a variety of protocol add-ons to HTTP that don't easily translate into how content is organized, searched, or presented. Search sucks. The modern CMS is still in a state of flux.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

In 1997 the Nielsen Norman Group revealed that 79% of users they tested scanned web pages rather than reading them. When people search for how to start a business and read our article on that subject, we offer them a free brand identity guide (this is a call-out in the article). This first tip is important. People are busy.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 12, 2012

Since its founding by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1997, Google has grown from a simple search engine to the huge Internet giant it is today. In fact, Google owns so many web assets that many would argue the company is on the path to dominating the online world, challenged only by the might – and popularity – of Facebook.

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

One doesnt really care what the Google box looks like as long as you get your search results back as soon as possible." To design like a teenager in 1997 using MS publisher is incredibly painful. He went on to cite Craigslist as another "ugly" site that does well based on its content rather than its aesthetic.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

If you’re an OEM who wants to move more hardware but you don’t have the muscle to create an entire media ecosystem then you’re best off finding a partner who can build a software OS, app platform and search capabilities. The best online video search tool (in terms of usability) that I’ve seen is Clicker.

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