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Back In The Filtering Game: Entrepreneur Drawn by The Siren Call Of The Startup

YoungUpstarts

In 1999, my brother Aaron and I started InternetSafety.com. It seemed as though venture capitalists were throwing money at any Internet idea they could find – no business plan required. Our idea was to build a dial-up Internet service to compete with AOL, MindSpring and EarthLink. I am now neck-deep in Startup No. 9, FilterSnap.

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Think you’ve got a strategy to enter the Chinese market? Think twice

The Next Web

Yu Yongfu is the chairman and CEO of UCWeb , whose mission is to provide a better mobile Internet experience to billions of users around the world. Yu graduated from Nankai University in 1999 with a bachelor’s degree in economics. US startups can also gain a foothold with the Chinese government through strategic partnerships.

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Opportunities For Wealth Building In Newcastle

YoungUpstarts

In recent years, its technology, manufacture, and service industry became the source of the city’s wealth. The early miners in the area were government convicts and miners from Britain and Wales. Mining and steelworks have dominated the industry in Newcastle up until BHP closed in 1999. The Boom of Real Estate in Newcastle.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. The Power of the Individual: This was the year that the individual, amplified by technology platforms, became empowered to rise against oppressions both large and small.

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Twice in a Lifetime

Austin Startup

In the mid 1990s I knew that the internet was a game-changing technology. In 1997 I founded an internet company named Perficient, and it went public in 1999. The dawn of the internet age was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for a technology entrepreneur. Technology revolutions take a while to fully mature.

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What if it’s 1996, not 1999?

Seeing Both Sides

If investors observing this extraordinary phenomenon in 1996 were to have concluded that the technology market was in the midst of an unsustainable bubble, they would not have been wrong. The Internet bull market continued to run for four more years after the Open Market IPO, finally ending in the spring of 2000.

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Entrepreneurship in the Fast Lane

Growthink Blog

Try these statistics on for size, from 1999 to today Asia’s share of the world’s Initial Public Offerings grew from 12% to 66%. IPO by far this year will be the government ward General Motors. Pursue Global Markets. 7 Companies in China have raised more than $1 billion in an IPO this year. In the U.S. Place Culture Above All Else.

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