Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

At the same time, I was beginning to realize that the Internet was fundamentally different from closed, proprietary online services like CompuServe or eWorld. Because of the Internet — and especially because of the World Wide Web — things were starting to move very quickly in Silicon Valley in 1995. Follow your network.”.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

In the mid-1990s, a good friend of mine, Gene Kim (founder of Tripwire and author of When IT Fails: A Business Novel ) and I were in graduate school together in the Computer Science program at the University of Arizona. A big technical challenge we studied was piping streaming video over networks. Napster arrived in June, 1999.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

The Wall Street Journal is phasing out support of the Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser. Internet Explorer. Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 16, 2023

Our professors were literally rewriting the case studies in real time and my participation in the very first Internet Marketing class the GSB ever offered is a form of carbon dating that conclusively proves my old age. As became clear quickly: the Stanford Business School Class of 1998 had founded the good Internet 1.0 Absolutely!

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Most investors rely on their network of colleagues and service providers to source investments. These funds use a combination of cold-calling, travel, firm networks, paid expert networks, and technology to identify investment opportunities outside of their neighborhood. They are typically among the top quartile performers.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. I’ve raised in boom markets and when everybody thought the Internet was a fraud. I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. Of course much of it is conflicting. Do your homework.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Not only does the country have a higher percentage of homes with high-speed Internet than the U.S. It’s a San Francisco Bay Area forum for networking, jobs and education for over 500 Product Management professionals. How To Pick A Co-Founder , by Naval Ravikant (Venture Hacks). Want to start up in France? Facebook Apps).

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

Before my partner Marc Andreessen and his friends at the University of Illinois invented the browser in 1993, most people thought only scientists and researchers would use the Internet. The Internet was thought to be too arcane, insecure and slow to meet real business needs. The implications of the propriety vision were not good.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

by Evgeny Glariantov , founder of FREED. Regular computers must be united into a sophisticated computing network; big tasks should be broken into smaller ones; and all the possible contingencies — like slow internet or sudden computer shutdowns — must be taken into consideration. Searching for extraterrestrial intelligence.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. Web service architecture that provides a content management platform for the Internet.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Sure, there are many other events, including eTail and Internet Retailer. But Shop.org is where you go to learn and network. It is a non-profit, unlike eTail or Internet Retailer (today I hear that Shoptalk is the biggest eCommerce conference), and it is where the highest level people in digital retail go as a result.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Powered by cell phones and social networking platforms, we saw revolutions taking place, businesses being transformed and our daily lives made more convenient (if we could tear ourselves away from our Facebook and Twitter updates). eCommerce/Social Commerce: New models continue to evolve as ecommerce rebounded this past year.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

John Jantsch (00:00): This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by Content Is Profit hosted by Louis and Fonzi Kame, brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network. Think of it as a mantra in 1998, in a second shareholder letter, or 1999 Yeah. (20:43): And that, to me, that is simple as the new superpower. (07:36):

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2018

But rather than being on a public text chat, the user has an option to “form a private room” and invite friends via a social network or a direct link. That’s a big fundamental change seeing that since the start of the internet and sites like broadcast.com and YouTube, we, the users, have always had a public text chat.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

Co-founder and CEO Nicolas Brusson spoke to me about BlaBlaCar’s early ambitions to be a European rather than local country winner and its progression to global player. But the Valley in 1999 was a new world of startups, venture capital, and stock options. How did you go from VC to founder? They’re building them for the world.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Dave Tisch, Founder & Managing Director, TechStars NYC. Fralic has 25 years of technology industry experience, with significant Internet business development roles since 1996. Dave Tisch is Founder and Managing Director of TechStars in NYC and is an angel investor through the BoxGroup. Mike Yavonditte, CEO, Hashable.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

8:30 Networking. Karen Bantuveris, Founder and CEO of VolunteerSpot. She is the Founder and CEO of Volunteer Spot an online coordination app that facilitates volunteering. For a preview of the discussion, see “ Introduction to Angel Investing ”. Agenda: 4-speaker panel on February 28th, 6:30-9pm. 6:30 Registration.

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Austin Startup

MAY 14, 2019

People can pay for a membership to work from a shared workspace which often includes internet, coffee, desks, and other amenities. - Coworking is a recent phenomenon which was aided by the proliferation of the internet and the associated capability for people to work remotely. How did coworking start?

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Many people know Akamai as the purveyor of the Internet’s backbone. Incorporated in 1998 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company’s network of over 100,000 globally distributed servers provides an infrastructure layer that accelerates the distribution and delivery of content, media and applications. Akamai: The Present.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. My fiancé is one of the best ideation consultants in the world (the brain), he was a top rated mentor at Founder Institute and has built and sold numerous successful businesses. Thanks to Adam Hergenrother, Hergenrother Enterprises ! #12 Image Credit: Gail Levy.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

Internet 1.0. It was difficult to conceive how important the internet would be to our lives back in the mid 1990s. After the Dot Com crash of 1999, most yet-to-be-disrupted big firms got back to business. How could anyone ever lie again if we could just check it out on the internet and find out the truth!

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And now all of a sudden you have got this global market of all these early adopters that have smartphones connected to the Internet, and they can just pick up their things and run with them. So it would seem like they are an antidote to, or at least less offensive than, social/consumer Internet companies are to the public markets.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

In the summer of 1999, I started working on a startup from my college dorm. Id been on the internet since I was playing MUDs as a kid, but by 1999 I felt Id already missed the boat. Could we have built the first college-based social network five years before Facebook ? I pretty much missed all the trends.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

In January of 1999, I co-founded a marketing agency with a former boss. I was searching the internet for hours hoping to find the perfect gift to commemorate a special date in the life of my fiancé, Steve. Working directly with other CEOs and founders, I receive immediate feedback and appreciation for my expertise.

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