Feld Thoughts

MARCH 12, 2020

While it’s easy to find experts everywhere, and Twitter allows even those most unexpert authority figure to be an expert, I’m continuously searching for signal and trying to discard or ignore the noise. Senator Bill Frist, M.D. has a podcast called A Second Opinion.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 4, 2010

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. By then it was too late. Golder and G.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

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. million shares of Google stock. Invest in People. Alta Vista. Webcrawler.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 26, 2019

I began my volunteer work on the burn unit in early 1998 and within months of my volunteering I co-founded Moonlight Fund, a nonprofit for burn survivors. I searched the country for nonprofit and government support and found little-to-none. Some, sadly, resort to suicide.

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Up and Running

APRIL 27, 2015

However, one area where he fell short was in ignoring the search engine market. While Microsoft introduced MSN Search in 1998, the site purely used an existing search engine, Inktomi, to gather results. In 2009, Microsoft introduced Bing, but it has never measured up to the popularity of Google.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In 1998, Google founders were ready to sell it to Yahoo for USD one million — but Yahoo refused the opportunity. To learn more about Yahoo, we search on Google. As well, Yahoo didn’t care to build a robust search engine feature on its platform. The consequences of this are well known to us today.

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Diego Basch

MARCH 4, 2011

A few months later the first mp3 search engines start to pop up. I think I can create one that’s better, and it becomes my personal summer project in 1998. 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.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 20, 2013

1998 – “There is no room for personal productivity software startups – Microsoft will eat your lunch when you get big enough and Symantec will take the crumbs”. 1999 – “The search engine game is over”. (Internet). Evernote, Dropbox). 2002 – “the social network fad is over”.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

The main aim of recommendations on these pages is to display the most relevant items and therefore provide a “next step” in their search to your visitor and keep them browsing your site. While the best option in this scenario is advanced filtering and faceted search, recommendations can provide value in these cases as well.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 29, 2016

Achieved CPAs that were 34% cheaper than non-brand search campaigns. Selling more than 17 million bags since 1998, eBags knew they had huge retargeting potential, but what they did with their data was pretty creative. Something that should be done, even with regular search campaigns. Average order value increased by 13%.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million. 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. The Funding Problem.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 21, 2013

1998 – “There is no room for personal productivity software startups – Microsoft will eat your lunch when you get big enough and Symantec will take the crumbs”. 1999 – “The search engine game is over”. (Internet). Evernote, Dropbox). 2002 – “the social network fad is over”. Myspace, Facebook).

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

Similarly, Google, well on its way to owning the dominant smart phone operating system and which maintains a near monopoly position in search, trades at a price/earnings (P/E) ratio (ex-cash) of around 13.7. In 1998, I was working at Netscape, which owned well over half of the browser market. But this is still hardly a bubble multiple.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 8, 2018

Secondly, I took my list of names and searched for each one in the USPTO database to ensure they weren’t infringing on an existing brand name. In 1998, The On-Purpose Business Person was released and also become a best-seller. Thanks to Ashley Bodi, Southern Sunshine ! #16- 16- My best-selling book. Photo Credit: Kevin W.

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thebarefootvc

JANUARY 13, 2014

Google certainly innovated around a simple search experience online but hasn’t yet translated that into hardware design (just take a look at folks walking around with the Google glass ). Steve Jobs famously said in a 1998 BusinessWeek interview: “It’s really hard to design products by focus group.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

in 1998 and eventually became Yahoo!Store. At first, Google seemed like a bad idea; there were already several search engines doing what they did. Here’s a tiny slice of the pie to give you an idea of what those problems are or were: Viaweb – Paul’s own company which allowed users to make their own online stores. Sold to Yahoo!

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 10, 2011

In 1998, Google was the new kid in an established (if not quite mature) market for Internet search, and by 2004, it was by far the leading Internet search engine, handling almost 85% of the search requests on the web. Brand imagery associations determine how a customer looks at brand’s palpable qualities and features.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 27, 2010

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. million shares of Google stock. Invest in People. Alta Vista. Webcrawler.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 15, 2018

If Tech needed any additional reasons for humility… Mar 1998, Fortune: “How Yahoo! Won The Search Wars.”. Hard to believe the industry fiddles while the fraudsters eat cake – State of Digital Ad Fraud Q2 2018 [link] pic.twitter.com/4ShVv9EuwP. — Ross Kimbarovsky (@rosskimbarovsky) June 9, 2018.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 15, 2018

If Tech needed any additional reasons for humility… Mar 1998, Fortune: “How Yahoo! Won The Search Wars.”. Hard to believe the industry fiddles while the fraudsters eat cake – State of Digital Ad Fraud Q2 2018 [link] pic.twitter.com/4ShVv9EuwP. — Ross Kimbarovsky (@rosskimbarovsky) June 9, 2018.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Rather they understood that a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. Rules for building a company in 2011 are different than they were in 2008 or 1998. This next wave of web startups; Social Networks and Mobile Applications, now reached 100’s of millions of customers.

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Always an entrepreneur at heart, Eric recognized small and medium sized businesses needed access to cost-effective, quality technology expertise and founded On Line Support in 1998. I’m in a constant search for more efficient ways to create a powerful life, in other words, to have the ability to create anything we imagine.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 9, 2006

Paris, November 1998. In search of Europe's next tech stars. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Saturday, December 09, 2006. McKinsey highlight #1: the art of cost cutting or how to save 70m with a measuring spoon. First week on the job. software. (10).

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

If you’re targeting top performers or poaching from competitors, the remaining steps of the recruiting process must be designed to “fit” the needs in the job search process of your targeted candidate if you expect to even gain their attention. WWW search engines. Direct contacts, competitor known. Competitor unknown.

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Board Effect

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 offers certain immunities for internet service providers that may lend some form of protection from allegations of copyright infringement, tortious conduct, or defamation. It’s wise to do a search on your nonprofit’s name occasionally and find out who is also using your content.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

I am a “business person” – I’ve been in the Internet space since 1998 when I co-founded GoTo.com/Overture, and I have deep product and marketing expertise and a track record of building successful consumer companies and brands. Search: RSS Feed. Friday, August 20, 2010 Stephanie says: I can testify to this!

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

We really were doing the i-thing before Apple came out with its first iMac in 1998. Google’s first business model was to sell/license search to the major portals (Yahoo! 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 The product worked.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 14, 2013

This ubertrend spurred a host of subtends, including reality shows, like MTV’s The Real World , which debuted in 1992; Celebrity Worship Syndrome , coined in 2003 and propelled by “pixel paparazzis;” HDTV in 1998; helicopter police chases, including the infamous 1994 O.J. Video Recruitment.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Epinions, which we started in 1998, had five cofounders instead of two, primarily because it was really hard to recruit early-stage employees without giving them cofounder equity.” It’s no longer a realistic option to load the cubicles with employees and then go in search of product-market fit. ” Top Startup Needs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

One, which is described in great detail in the Mythical Man-Month (in finding that link, I discovered that today is coincidentally the exact 11th anniversary of my first purchasing that book: Jan 19, 1998), is that as you add people to a team or project, there is an increase in communications overhead that makes everyone slightly less productive.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2017

The main Search Engine Optimization (SEO) benefits of getting listed on online directories is that quality online directory listings often show up in search engine result pages (SERPs) when a local business is searched for. In the example below I searched for ‘clarks shoe stores austin tx.’ and other search engines.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

In May of 1998, India detonated several nuclear weapons at a test site near New Delhi. Eric, what you've termed 'datablindness' seems to be a common affliction in fields which experience a sudden rise in the volume of data they have access to.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

The company is also known for being a great employer, making Fortune magazine’s “Best Places to Work” list every year since 1998. 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. Whole Foods.

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finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

FORTUNE -- Its no secret that venture capitalists were hit hard by last decades dotcom bust, considering that median returns for 1998-2001 vintage funds are all underwater. Job Search. Exclusive: Returns for brand-name VC funds By Dan Primack August 20, 2012: 12:15 PM ET. Beyond the dotcom-era benchmarks. Accounting jobs. Finance jobs.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

It was 1998 and the internet wasn’t exactly readily available. It sounds simple now, but in 1998 it was unheard of. Today, our company has grown to become the number one telecommute-only job board online and a safe and effective resource for jobseekers searching for telecommuting job opportunities in every major career category.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 7, 2016

or later, Windows® 10 A simple Amazon search for VR PC led me to the Cyberpower Gamer Extreme VR  — and based on the name alone, I was sold. Looking into the belly of the beast The Cyberpower Gamer Extreme is like a PC from 1998 that time-traveled to meet us in 2016, it is not Wifi enabled. DisplayPort 1.2

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Up and Running

JULY 29, 2015

Let’s start with a website that functions like a grant search engine. This grant was launched in 1998 by Womennet to help entrepreneurs succeed. Entrepreneurs can also look into various grants to support their budding idea. Here’s a list of places to find that perfect grant for your business. Business USA. Amber Grant for Women.

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