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How The New General Data Protection Regulation Will Affect Online Businesses

YoungUpstarts

The new regulations replace the 1995 EU Data Protection Directive and the 1998 UK Data Protection Act. Personal information, like sexual orientation, racial information, medical records, health and gene information, and political affiliations and opinions. Banking and credit card information. Data Breaches Must Be Formally Reported.

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Don’t hire people you know!

David Teten

1] More generally, people are disproportionately likely to develop ties that are homogeneous by values (both conservative), interests (both golfers), affiliation (members of the same Rotary club), and participation (take a hip-hop dance class together). [2]. 2] Peter V.

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Don’t hire people you know!

David Teten

1] More generally, people are disproportionately likely to develop ties that are homogeneous by values (both conservative), interests (both golfers), affiliation (members of the same Rotary club), and participation (take a hip-hop dance class together). [2]. 2] Peter V.

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Project: The Story of Jeff Bezos' $250,000 Investment into Google in 1998

Growthink Blog

After my column a few months ago regarding Jeff Bezos' now famous (and incredibly profitable) investment into Google in 1998, I was deluged with comments and opinions on this question - was his investment luck or was it foresight? Remember this was 1998 not 1994. or its affiliates. Invest in People. Alta Vista. Webcrawler.

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The Golden Age of the Boston Internet Entrepreneur

Genuine VC

I was in my early 20’s just barely out of school when four of us (peers) started Sombasa Media (aka BargainDog ) here in Boston beginning in 1998. In only a few short years, the strong pillars of the local Internet scene, like Lycos & CMGI (+ affiliated companies), had fallen away and been rendered irrelevant.

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Why I like small teams

Jeff Hilimire

And now that I run the Digital Innovation Group (DIG) at Engauge , I’ve come full circle from having that first small team in 1998 to now having another small team. In The Tipping Point (affiliate link), Malcom Gladwell talks about the way team size is looked at within Gore Tex (thanks @casey_burns for the link). And I love it.

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More Information on Y Combinator

Campus Entrepreneurship

Instead of working a boring internship at a big company, Graham’s pitch went, win $5,000 to work on your startup in Cambridge with guidance from Graham and his friend, MIT professor Robert Morris–two guys who launched Viaweb, a maker of software that built storefronts online, and sold it to Yahoo for $50 million in 1998.