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Response to the Journal

OnlyOnce

Consumers are coming to understand and appreciate that the real cost of a “free” internet lies in advertising and data collection. The article goes on to explain that computers scan this data, and in some rare cases, the data is reviewed by actual people.

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Response to the Journal

OnlyOnce

Consumers are coming to understand and appreciate that the real cost of a “free” internet lies in advertising and data collection. The article goes on to explain that computers scan this data, and in some rare cases, the data is reviewed by actual people.

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

I’m a huge fan of William and his writing as you can see from my review of his book Avogadro Corp. There seem to be two schools of thought on how to predict the future of information technology: looking at software or looking at hardware. The same spreadsheet also predicted we’d see a music downloading service in 1999 or 2000.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

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. Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. This never existed a decade ago.

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Stop Thinking And Acting Local: Small Businesses Seeking Growth Should See Themselves As Global Enterprises

YoungUpstarts

There has been a tremendous revolution in software in the last 5+ years that has brought down the cost of setting up a full service, secure e-commerce store to roughly the cost of an bottle of wine (per month). 1 Bill Gates, Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy, March 24, 1999. Diversifying.

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28 Entrepreneurs Discuss Why they Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

In January of 1999, I co-founded a marketing agency with a former boss. I was a professional dancer, choreographer, dance teacher and studio co-owner when I became disabled due to disastrous back surgery followed by a car accident making the situation worse. Thanks to Mike Samson, crowdSPRING. #3 3 – I was Fired Twice.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering. The difference here is the entry-level cost to buying web property, not physical property, is much lower than what it is to buy real-world properties.