K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Diego and I first met in 1997. com) that let you find almost any song available on the web in MP3 format. IndexTank (@ IndexTank ) has been acquired by LinkedIn ! Huge congratulations to the entire IndexTank Team and especially to IndexTank’s founder Diego Basch (@ dbasch ). Diego had just started in the MSE program.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 19, 2014

GoDaddy was created in 1997 as Jomax Technologies by Bob Parsons who had recently sold his other company, Parsons Technology Inc., The idea of marketing domain registration and web hosting to everyday people was unheard of at the time. It was not very long ago that most people were unfamiliar with the Internet.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 18, 2011

Guest author Chris Heilmann has been a professional Web developer since 1997 and has worked in various agencies and corporations on large, international products. His current role is principal developer evangelist at Mozilla with a focus on HTML5 and the open Web. Outdated and Impersonal HR Practices.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. 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.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

When he founded Netflix as a DVD rental service in 1997, Hastings had already led one company, Pure Software, from its birth to an IPO. In the first of a new series talking to tech industry leaders about what shaped them as entrepreneurs and the lessons they’ve learned in their careers, we speak to Netflix co-founder and CEO, Reed Hastings.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The annual Interactive Festival awards program began in 1997 as the Texas Interactive Media Achievement Awards, and was re-named the SXSW Web Awards the following year. The SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards recognize some of the most exciting tech developments in the connected world.

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Diego Basch

MARCH 4, 2011

I did make money for a long time doing web-scale development work for a bunch of companies. No web, no connectivity for the most part, just simple games, random programs, hardware drivers, random utilities. Fast forward to 1997. That’s the first time I saw a web-scale problem. I started coding in the 80s.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 8, 2018

In 1997 I founded an internet company named Perficient, and it went public in 1999. This Time Wealth Creation Will Be Decentralized Too In the Web 2.0 I’ve been a technologist since I first played with an Apple ][+ with a lower case chip. In the mid 1990s I knew that the internet was a game-changing technology.

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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. On the other hand, web servers are not a blitzscalable market.

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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. Founded by Shervin Pishevar (COO of Webs). Web service that allows parents to monitor children’s activity on social networks in realtime for about $10/child/month. Total raised: $18.3mm.

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The Next Web

APRIL 29, 2013

I remember how nervous I was when I met the competitor to my first startup, in 1997, afraid as I was that I would accidentally slip him an important piece of information that he would be able to use against me. You guarded your trade secrets, kept your business-plan to yourself and used your knowledge to your advantage.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

It worked like a charm since we could create a more interactive experience on the Web. What started out as a generic web-based chat solution morphed into a full-fledged product for a distance education that we called iClass. (We We were a tiny web-conferencing startup in Pittsburgh called iMeet. This time we’d gotten it right.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Since 1997, our immediate destiny has been in our own hands.” . “Of the forty people I talked to who did not invest…I mean, anyone who knew anything about the book business, for example, did not invest. That was the most fragile moment for Amazon. ” The rest, as the saying goes, is history.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 2, 2015

When I started making venture capital investments in 1997, the pace of things, and the amount of work I did, was massive. The web appeared in 1994 and a completely different method of communication started its long march into integrating in our universe. The name kind of says it all.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

The company was originally founded in 1997 by Jonathan Bush (1st cousin of George W.) The founding pair realized that they needed to pivot into becoming a software company, and in late 1998, completely shifted their focus to delivering athenaNet, their Web-based medical billing platform, as a cloud-based software service for all doctors.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 22, 2013

Even in 1997, during the dot-com boom, Bezos’s anti-pitch was stark and to the point: “You can work long, hard, or smart, but at Amazon.com you can’t choose two out of three.”. It’s counterintuitive, but Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos takes a totally different approach to hiring: he gives prospects a hiring anti-pitch.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Mr. Kalghatgi is a recovering engineer with several years of experience in front-end design and development focused on mobile and web UX before completing his MBA at Harvard Business School. In 1997, Mr. Yavonditte joined Juno Online Services, Inc. You can reach Mr. Kalghatgi at nikhil@softbank.com and @nikhilkal.

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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. hours per day on average, and that’s excluding the other 13 hours a day where we have our mobile devices, our connected TVs, our iPads and Kindles and soon our cars connected to the web. There are 20x more consumers online.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 16, 2016

While numerous agencies existed that provided web services, they also focused on print, TV, radio and other media. In 1997 we were IT consultants. We were too embarrassed to admit that our search fell short, so we built something ourselves that was modern and web-based, and they bought it! Photo Credit: Drew Harden.

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Pascal's View

MARCH 18, 2010

America had this structure in place prior to 1997, and we should take a hard look at what has changed to render the small company IPO extinct (contrary to popular belief, it first became an endangered species before the technology bubble). I believe that the U.S.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 17, 2013

All three are part of a larger web that creates an upward spiral.”. When Gary McPherson studied musicians in 1997, he discovered there was one major factor that contributed to success years down the line. Among those resources, the top three she found were social capital, resilience, and big picture thinking.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

The World Wide Web was now being rolled out everywhere and every project was considering its Intranet strategy. In 1997 I was sent to England to work on a project for the oil company Halliburton. Our project was evaluating their network infrastructure across their remote oil rigs and how to optimize them.

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

The quarter, which saw double digit declines in every major industry sector, marks the lowest venture investment level since 1997.” Quarterly investment activity was down 47 percent in dollars and 37 percent in deals from the fourth quarter of 2008 when $5.7 billion was invested in 866 deals. Second, it’s just not that simple.

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aweissman.com

APRIL 14, 2010

All of it made me think back to my youth, the days of AOL, around 1995-1997. We spent much of 1997 renegotiating thousands of these deals. Smart content providers realized they could - indeed had to - move to the nascent web. And over time more users would migrate to an open web entry point. Others failed. Others failed.

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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. She came to the GSA as a Presidential Innovation Fellow in 2013, where she worked on the development of MyUSA.gov.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

I can remember when creating a web site for eCommerce could easily require a million dollar investment. Now you can create a web site for almost nothing - and be on your way with your latest invention or personal services. According to Fox Business , women-owned businesses have increased 68% since 1997, running more than 9.1

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0, Let’s say you became a partner in a VC fund in 1995 and started investing heavily in 1997-99. before the really profitable years of social networking and when many in the industry were despondent. What I garnered was that many VCs secretly wanted to be entrepreneurs.

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BeyondVC

JULY 16, 2007

However, I do disagree with the notion that because some of these "consumer web firms are selling themselves to larger Internet companies such as Google or Microsoft Corp. for a few hundred million dollars or less" means that returns for investors can be mediocre. market cap.

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Up and Running

APRIL 5, 2021

Why web pop-ups have such a tumultuous reputation Now let’s take a look at the history of pop-ups in order to better understand how best to use them. As commerce rose with the web — so did the associated marketing. By 1997, the pop-up plague had spread to sites across the net, including Geocities, AOL, and The New York Times.

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BeyondVC

OCTOBER 18, 2007

I never made it to the Web 2.0 In a scary way, it felt like it was 1997 all over again, and we were at a networking event in New York talking about their first startups. conference yesterday, and you know how I feel about that label :-). The only difference is that it is 10 years later, and we have greyer hair.

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BeyondVC

JULY 19, 2005

It reminds me of a panel that I spoke on in 1997 at the Red Herring Java Technology Conference. On the consumer side, one big value for Microsoft has been its hold on the desktop as Tim Oren strongly points out , but as we move more and more into a web-based world its strength is diminishing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0, Let’s say you became a partner in a VC fund in 1995 and started investing heavily in 1997-99. before the really profitable years of social networking and when many in the industry were despondent. What I garnered was that many VCs secretly wanted to be entrepreneurs.

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BeyondVC

MARCH 24, 2006

John Meriwether from Liar’s Poker fame assembled a stellar group from Wall Street and academia including Myron Scholes (one of the creators of the Black-Scholes option pricing model) and Robert Merton who together shared the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1997. Hmmm-it really does sound like Long Term Capital.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 7, 2015

Back in 1997, the Nielsen Norman Group conducted the first study to determine how users read on the web. Measured usability of improved web copy from Nielsen Norman Group study. In their words, “They don’t.” 79% of the people in their study scanned, taking in only bits and pieces of the content on the page.

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blog.teamtreehouse.com

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Learn Web Design, Coding & more! Not long ago designers who laid out web pages also had to plunge into myriad layers of nested tables, ferreting out that one misplaced or making the same tedious width change across many pages. CSS frameworks could not have come to be without pivotal changes in web page layout. Learn More.

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Pascal's View

APRIL 19, 2009

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2012

RealTonyRocha : Twitter celebrity, CEO, and web investor Tony Rocha stays active on his Twitter account with plenty of news and opinion. FuelOnline : Fuel CEO Scott Levy has been working in social media and SEO since 1997. Jason : Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis loves to talk tech and discuss startups.

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