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

Both Sides of the Table

mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet. It preceded the WWW but then become the onramp to the Internet for newbies. For a nanosecond Rupert Murdoch seemed like the smartest guy on the Internet. The Past (1985-2002).

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Bubble Trouble? I Don’t Think So

Ben's Blog

In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. Companies that produce little value today might still receive high valuations due to high growth expectations. The Long Awaited Arrival of the Internet Boom. High valuations are fine if the underlying value is there.

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Debating the Tech Bubble with Steve Blank: Part I

Ben's Blog

Let us look at examples of the last two major computing cycles (prior to the Internet). As you can see, we are poised to hit the major adoption wave for the Internet technology platform over the next 8 years. The internet is working. A lot has changed since the internet bubble eleven years ago. Today, there are over 2.1

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

It was 1998 and the internet wasn’t exactly readily available. It sounds simple now, but in 1998 it was unheard of. Thanks to Nick Chandi, SlickPie Accounting Software ! #8 Joblife tries to resolve these challenges by empowering job seekers with a web application that is accessible from any mobile phone.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. If you want to understand the details of why this is, I covered it in detail in this post, Understanding Changes in the Software Industry.

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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. After I left academia (too slow moving) and the consultancy company I worked for (lack of vision), four friends and I applied that puzzle-solving passion to creating software for solving supply chain puzzles. That’s it.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL. It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. AOL was closed, the Internet was open.