Sophia Perl of Wisdom

AUGUST 27, 2011

Even Perez Hilton blogged about Flippa because of its relationship to FaceSmash and Social Network. The main difference is that they were able to leverage their distribution channel. He mentioned that an idea is worth nothing and often times fails because lack of distribution channel.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Even startups that are dominated by technical risk have the customer validation risk of finding positive ROI distribution in a large market. Back in 1999, it all ended very bad. Blog at WordPress.com. Let’s not let startups use this as an escape hatch to avoid customer development. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

I was building a new startup in 1999, and wanted to do it right. How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim. Startup Lessons Learned season one : Every post from the blogs first year in print form. yeah, its awesome.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

I don’t do advertising on my blog, but I thought it was worth mentioning Ryan in particular because he has an alternate model for doing a startup. Provides electronic book services for content publishers; services include digital scanning and conversion, distribution to leading e-book retailers, monetization and royalty management.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 11, 2010

I recently wrote a blog post about why I believe that startup teams in close proximity perform better. We’re recommending to our companies that they be distributed.&#. The CIC, founded in 1999, is located adjacent to MIT and has more than 100,000 sq ft of space for nearby startups that qualify to be housed there.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

In 1999, David Weinberger, a technologist and co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto , wrote, “Personalization: the automatic tailoring of sites and messages to the individuals viewing them so that we can feel that somewhere there’s a piece of software that loves us for who we are.” 2x increase in blog signups.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Before Roving Software could receive its first round of financing from professional investors, in early 1999, he had to put all the stock arrangements in writing. CDW your 1-stop resource for configuration, activation & distribution. Leadership & Managing | Tuesdays. Todays Small Business News | Daily. Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 28, 2005

Luckily, I have 2 portfolio companies that I respectively invested in during 1999 and 2000 which survived the nuclear winter and are having an opportunity to contribute to this innovation by helping make search better and easier for users. There is obviously lots of innovation happening in the search space.

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View from Seed

JUNE 17, 2015

My first startup job was as an early employee at PayPal, where I took a job at the end of ‘1999 and started a few months later in 2000. I’d like to think that I worked hard, but I was probably in the middle of the distribution of my colleagues at both PayPal and LinkedIn in terms of work ethic… neither the slacker nor the hardest worker.

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Diego Basch

JUNE 2, 2012

One fine day in June of 1999 I was sitting at my desk, writing code, in the zone. There were no blogs or Twitter. In 1999 it was common practice to print the employee roster every week (including phone extensions) and distribute it to everyone. It was crazy. My phone rang, I picked up. Why did they call me?

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

As we all know, the last ten years has seen a near-total collapse of the innovation cost curve, thanks to the perfect storm of open-source, cloud infrastructure, and “free” global distribution via search, social and app stores. But most of the local funds are small and the local ecosystems sub-scale.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

To help shine some light on this topic, I’ve decided to do a series of blog posts of case studies of companies founded in the last 10-15 years that have made the transition from finding initial product-market fit to building a large, scalable, platform company. The first year of revenue (1999) was $4 million – a remarkable achievement.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

After Mosaic, even Marc and his co-founder Jim Clark originally planned a business for video distribution to run on top of the proprietary Information Super Highway , not the Internet. After AOL acquired Netscape in 1999, the browser wars ended and browser innovation stopped for many years.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

Suppose you trace the history of Netflix, which we’ve invested in since 1999 and are still one of the largest shareholders. We believed this thing would be able to unlock a multi-product distribution and really strengthen the business mode. There are blogs that I read. So the first one is Netflix. 10 billion.” David Zhang.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2019

In contrast to “distribution-first content,” movement-first content is a conscious sacrifice of reach: “it isn’t beholden to any SEO tactics like word count and keyword density.” Getting there requires patience, internal buy-in, and supporting content. More than just ‘Content Marketing.’”. Drift grew positioning into a philosophy.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 11, 2013

Appsumo is an daily deals website for the coolest web apps and other digitally distributed goods. This is what they say about themselves: We are an distribution channel for companies that help entrepreneurs start, grow, optimize, and scale their businesses. Borderless world. Case studies. Image credit. Case #1 – Appsumo.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started - OnStartups , September 27, 2010 "The best part of blogging is the people you will meet"- Hugh MacLeod repeating wisdom from Loic Lemeur to me at the Big Pink at 2 am in South Beach after the Future of Web Apps 2008. Kanye West. Let's recap. Building a Better Product.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

My number one goal in 1999 when my wife (fiancé at the time) Abby and I started our firm was to create a business that allowed us to raise and support our family on our own terms—just like my parents’ business allowed them to do for more than 30 years. After several rejections, a friend told me that you could actually just start a blog.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 19, 2010

In 1999, Lee joined the Silicon Valley new media content contingent as an Internet-company CEO, and has since founded two innovative Los Angeles media companies. With Growthink, Lee has continued his deep involvement with film, digital media, content delivery protocols, gaming technologies and sports initiatives.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. that did so in 1999 and 2000, according to an analysis for The Wall Street Journal by Jay R. Personalize your own news page. Receive and manage newsletters.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 20, 2010

I never would have paid for music back in 1999 or 2000 when I was sporting my 64mb Creative Nomad, powered completely ilegally by Napster. 3) Remix, Comment, Blog, Tweet. Sharing links on my blog is to cumbersome, but I’d do it if I had a better clipping tool that posted. Because it was a tremendous pain in the ass.

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Diego Basch

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Pretty much all of them admitted that they would party like it’s 1999 if they could get a few million out of their startups. I’ve also seen quite a few of such exits; because of the power law distribution of returns, their odds are disproportionately higher than those of becoming a multi-billion dollar company.

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Mike Michalowicz

JULY 25, 2016

Too add, by implementing Profit First, within the first two weeks of starting the business, the company took their first distribution check! In 1999 my wife Carol Lynn and I founded Rahvalor Interactive, a creative marketing services company. Welcome to Episode 106 of the Profit First Podcast! Our Guests. Ralph Rivera.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

So these companies that are kind of for — in the sort of mechanical term, distributed workforces and outsource work being run online. He is an active member of the blogging community. I know how to do it better, I know how to do it different. Previously, Andreessen developed Mosaic and co-founded Netscape.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

After the Dot Com crash of 1999, most yet-to-be-disrupted big firms got back to business. The truth is the mixed economy model is what has provided the greatest distribution of wealth the world has ever seen. It was difficult to conceive how important the internet would be to our lives back in the mid 1990s. But when the web 2.0

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

For example, distribution to find new apps in a mobile Internet is tightly locked down by the oligopoly of Apple and Google. Distribution of media is tightly controlled by YouTube, Netflix, Facebook, Amazon and a handful of others. Our social graphs are locked in Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat. Enter the decentralized Internet.

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