The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Back in 1999 when I got my first job in the venture industry I remember having a debate with my boss about the relative importance of product and distribution for startups. Since then the internet has changed everything and for most industries product is now far more important than distribution. He was right.

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Distribution Framework Product Software Review 60

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

When it came to ROI in 1999, the bigger, brighter, and more noticeable your yellow pages’ ad was, the better. Yes, we know there was email marketing in 1999, but it was in its infancy. They can also capture the attention of their target audience as part of internet traffic with display ads, banner ads, and paid search ad placement.

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Marketing Distribution Social Media Advertising 100

Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

How does physical stuff fit in with NextView’s investment thesis focused on the internet and the broad innovation wave it represents? For starters we take a very, very long term view of internet innovation (more on this below). The internet as we know it is 20ish years old.

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Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

How does physical stuff fit in with NextView’s investment thesis focused on the internet and the broad innovation wave it represents? For starters we take a very, very long term view of internet innovation (more on this below). The internet as we know it is 20ish years old.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 17, 2014

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. Earlier in his career, he was a VP at Legend Capital. Cultural immersion.

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China Marketing Asia Mobile 128

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2009

I started my first company in 1999 in London at the height of the dot com craze. As the economy soured and people grew wary of buying Internet software (we were SaaS as early as 1999 – our buyers were certainly “early adopters&# ) and life grew more difficult. This is part of my ongoing series Startup Lessons.

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PR Software Review Ireland Germany 331

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2020

Just because you would have loved to have your groceries picked out and delivered, doesn’t mean the mainstream customer was ready for Webvan in 1999. Or ask PlanetRx, an online service for prescriptions, before the Internet was pervasive. Falling victim to a magical mania or bubble.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 4, 2014

In 1999 or so, a third player entered the scene when Google launched its minimalist Web experience. Soon, all the complexities of the Internet were reduced to a single box on a white page. The Internet, Google promised, could be had for the simple price of a few search terms and a click of a mouse.

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Operations Architecture Cofounder DC 144

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0 by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Yes, VC / Startup Funding is up Massively If you look at how much VC firms have raised from Limited Partners (LPs) over the past 2 decades you’ll see that we’ve returned to a level that we haven’t seen since 1999. There are significantly more Internet users and we’re no longer newbies b. The second half of this analysis coming soon!

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Start Up Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2019

Why it mattered: An open and fair internet took a massive hit when Facebook bought Instagram. I liken it to the dot-com bubble of 1999. Cryptocurrency too will come back and change our lives, and this new financial system might change the world even more than the internet has. Here’s the history of Bitcoin price: 2018.

Technical Review 105

Technical Review China IPO Vesting 105

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 16, 2023

It’s like the Internet was in 1999 – ahead of its time. And, the crypto funds we have invested in have done exceptionally well … mostly. I regularly hear to be patient. The builders are building, and it’ll take over everything in the future. That’s cool. Just beware of the Ponzi schemes.

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Vesting Algorithm .Net Reputation 146

Berkonomics

MAY 4, 2023

This time they are aided by tail winds brought on by the rapid spread of access to the Internet and AI. Consider this bit of recent history: In 1995, thirty-five million people used the Internet. Email readers, continue here…] By 2024, at least ninety percent of the global population will have regular Internet access.

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Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT Generative AI Internet 118

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet. I looked at the future predictions for “modem speed” (as I called it back then, today we’d called it internet connection speed or bandwidth). Napster arrived in June, 1999. But I digress…).

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Bandwidth Software Review 182

OnlyOnce

JULY 2, 2018

It is now widely understood that the Internet runs on data. Consumers are coming to understand and appreciate that the real cost of a “free” internet lies in advertising and data collection. Since our founding in 1999, we’ve kept consumer choice, permission, and transparency at the center of our business. online experience.

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Artificial Inteligence Software Review API Security 54

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 7, 2015

When I saw the proposal, I immediately thought of the web consulting rollups of 1999. A few companies got bought before the whole Internet-bubble thing fell apart, and we almost managed to get bought (for around $500 million, but that’s another story for another day.). I’m a big fan of coding schools.

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Stock Options Cofounder Hosting Revenue 70

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

There was a lot of consumer internet activity again…resurgence of things, but it was still mysterious, venture capital was still kind of closed, 1st time entrepreneurs had a lot of questions that were unanswered, and there was still some sort of hand waiving around all the financing stuff and so we took it on….”. was starting.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

In early 1999 I made the decision to fulfill my lifelong dream to live and work in Japan. I will also cover how I accomplished this in a separate post but in early 1999 I arrived in Tokyo for the first time. I spent 8 weeks there per year as well as time in Chicago. I did all of this while I had an income.

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France Spain Technical Review Hungary 295

OnlyOnce

JULY 2, 2018

It is now widely understood that the Internet runs on data. Consumers are coming to understand and appreciate that the real cost of a “free” internet lies in advertising and data collection. Since our founding in 1999, we’ve kept consumer choice, permission, and transparency at the center of our business. online experience.

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Artificial Inteligence Software Review API Security 48

YoungUpstarts

MAY 19, 2019

In 1999, a company known as Texas Instruments produced a DLP Cinema projector. A huge number of films which were made before 1999 were analog in nature. Furthermore, it can also be beamed to cinemas and TV screens right through the Internet. It used computer capability to read digital format films and present them on a screen.

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Los Angeles Texas New York Distribution 142

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 18, 2011

I like doing anything and everything I can over the internet. Some might say this is because I am a college-aged millennial whose social skills have been stunted by technology, but I think it has more to do with the ease, convenience and immediacy the internet provides. The internet will prevail. Internet’s got your back.

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Small Business New Jersey Internet Bootstrapping 105

Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

In fact, if you exclude the Dot Com Bubble of 1999-2000, they have been steady for nearly thirty years. 1999-2000 51.6% Time Period IPO Pop % Above IFR 1999-2000 51.6% 1999-2000 37.5% We have published some research on this topic elsewhere, which I will summarize briefly below. Time Period IPO Pop* 1980-1989 6.1%

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Accredited Investor IPO SEC Technical Review 36

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 8, 2020

What the visionary, Milton Friedman, predicted about Bitcoin in 1999. Even before Bitcoin became a reality, visionaries like Milton Friedman were predicting the rise of an internet-version of cash, as long ago as 1999. The internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government,” he said at the time.

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Iceland Government Internet Bandwidth 140

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

In 1999 I was in Japan doing a strategy project for the board of directors of Sony. We were looking at all sorts of strategic decisions that Sony was considering, which required analysis and data on broadband networks, Internet portas and mobile handsets/networks. But you have to understand how to interpret your numbers.

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Investment Bankers Mobile Software Review Japan 415

thebarefootvc

AUGUST 13, 2013

Whereas I may have seen a dozen companies in 1999 with a point solution in a particular area, now I see multiples. Entrepreneurship Startups Technology Uncategorized Venture Capital cloud computing enterprise IBM internet Salesforce SAP software startups'

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Advisory Board Cloud Venture Capital Software 70

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

He worked his way up the corporate ladder; in 1998 he became VP of the Digital TV platform strategy, which did not pan out, and in 1999 he found an opportunity in Microsoft Internet (MSN) international.

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New Zealand Venture Capital Startup 100

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Altor Networks was founded in 2007 by security and networking experts from Israel’s Internet security giant Check Point. EyalGPS’s Text To Speech (TTS) applications are suitable for a variety of platforms, including smartphones and the Internet. From 1999 to 2009, Teva’s revenue grew to about $14 billion from $1.3

Technical Review 87

Technical Review South Korea Mexico 87

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. One partnership was clearly very divided and a vocal minority of GPs thought consumer internet companies were a massive waste of time and money. Consumer internet plays in Canada are rare, and finding a VC willing to give you the cash to scale is even more so.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

But if that observation led them to refrain from investing in the Internet sector, they would have missed one of the most stunning legal creations of wealth in history. 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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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

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Stock Database IPO Internet 74

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 15, 2010

In 1999 I was working in the London offices of Andersen Consulting. I had been working on marketing & strategy initiatives for European telcos for the past several years helping them to think through and design Internet offerings. Both Tyler & I are Nihon -files. It was right up my alley in terms of skill sets and interests.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Or will the convergence of content, internet, mobile applications, games and social media be the onrushing asteroids that will soon destroy the movie dinosaurs? How about Internet Video? revenues from internet video services spanning user-generated content to television shows and movies will exceed $7 billion this year.

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Los Angeles Silicon Valley Technical Review Distribution 85

YoungUpstarts

JULY 8, 2020

Mining and steelworks have dominated the industry in Newcastle up until BHP closed in 1999. There are also a handful of millionaire models, internet personalities and celebrities from Newcastle. For the younger generation, the Norris Nuts are the new internet superstars. The Boom of Real Estate in Newcastle.

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Australia Chad .Net Green 143

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. It was 1999.

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Silicon Valley Internet Networking Salary 69

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

I kept pointing to the artificial gains in the Nasdaq in 1999 and said, “just because you bought in Feb ’99 and sold in Sept ’99 for a large gain doesn’t meant the asset was correctly priced.&# My message to everybody at the time, “Sell! At dinner parties I was wrong for several years but I stuck to my guns.

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Florida Technical Review San Antonio Los Angeles 299

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2018

If you own a small business, you should know that internet marketing is essential to your company’s success. In 1999 with a graphic design partner he opened E-Webstyle (now eWebResults ) a website design and development company. by Christopher Burres, owner of eWebResults. But have you heard of geofencing?

Small Business 180

Small Business Marketing SEO Massachusetts 180

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 5, 2021

Key Takeaway: Ryan Deiss starting building the empire of businesses he has today by selling eBooks right from his dorm room back in 1999. 3:44] What was your first foray into the world of internet marketing as we call it? [7:23] Ryan is also a best-selling author and a sought-after speaker. 7:23] When did you start DigitalMarketer? [10:27]

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