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Small business startup kit for 2007 – mostly free!

BeyondVC

As I started thinking about his question, I remember what it was like setting up our office in 1998 and the headaches and cost of buying a Nortel phone system and phones and hiring a Microsoft networking expert to get our office set up for file sharing, back up, and email. The post Small business startup kit for 2007 – mostly free!

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t. In 1998 the Department of Justice launched an anti-trust case against Microsoft. In May 2007 there were fears that Google was becoming a monopoly. As you know, Time Warner eventually spun off AOL for peanuts.

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Welcoming Bobby Schnabel Back to CU Boulder

Feld Thoughts

He was on the computer science faculty of the University of Colorado Boulder from 1977-2007, and Vice Provost for Academic and Campus Technology and Chief Information Officer from 1998-2007, and founding director of the Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society (ATLAS) 1997-2007.

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Dallas Startup Happy Hour Tomorrow

The Startup Lawyer

She co-founded an aircraft scheduling software company in 1998 that ended in a profitable exit. Danica was an adjunct professor of entertainment law at Washington University School of Law for five years, and she has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America since 2007. Joey Pomerenke, Startup Weekend.

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Why Pioneers Have Arrows In Their Backs

Steve Blank

The irony is that in a retrospective paper ten years later (1998), [ 2 ] the authors backed off from their claims. In 1998 Goto.com , a small startup (later Overture, now part of Yahoo ! ), created the pay per click search engine and advertising system and demo’d it at the TED conference. Lieberman 2007. By then it was too late.

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Because the Domain Makes it Really Real

This is going to be BIG.

What might be a more relevant date is May 22nd, 2007. I started a business newspaper in 1998 in college covering the stock market and the economy. Three years ago today, I grabbed the domain name BrooklynBridgeVentures.com. It''s kind of a funny answer to "When did you start Brooklyn Bridge Ventures?".

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Entrepreneurs Unplugged with Andre Durand

Feld Thoughts

Durand co-founded Digital ID World, the identity industry conference (acquired by IDG in 2007). Durand was founder and CEO of Durand Communications, a bulletin board software provider (acquired by Webb Interactive in 1998). Prior to Ping Identity, Durand founded Jabber, Inc., Prior to Jabber, Inc.,