Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 11, 2022
The browser and thus the WWW and the first Internet businesses were born circa 1994–95 and there was a golden period where anything seemed possible. I started my first company in 1999 and was admittedly swept up in all of this: Magazine covers, fancy conferences, artificial valuations and easy money. There was no money train.
abovethecrowd.com
FEBRUARY 27, 2019
Fortunately, the rise of the Internet, and specifically Internet marketplace models, act as accelerants to the productivity benefits of the division of labour AND comparative advantage by reducing information asymmetry and increasing the likelihood of a perfect match with regard to the exchange of goods or services.
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YoungUpstarts
JUNE 23, 2018
There’s a reason cars.com, Carmax, Time Magazine, and Disney’s webpage for the movie Cars are among the first results when you search for “cars” on Google. These companies that own these websites spend billions of dollars on advertising and are regularly visited by the most Internet users. In 1999, search results were fairly objective.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 13, 2010
By 1999 we had grown into the largest independent consulting firm in the world. By 1999 it seemed like everybody was growing, though. Increasingly it became difficult to tell any system integration company apart and there was a whole new breed of competitors in the market helping companies build Internet businesses. I love that.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million. By the end of 2011 the Internet population was estimated at 2.3 billion, with 275 million in North America alone (source: Internet World Stats) and an astounding global penetration of 33% of the world’s population. Today we’re online 3.1
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 2, 2018
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. It analyzes radio signals from the outer space searching for extraterrestrial civilizations.
YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 26, 2015
It seems like every day there’s a new app, search engine update, or upgrade that marketers simply “must” incorporate into their marketing plan, often at the expense of other tactics. When it came to ROI in 1999, the bigger, brighter, and more noticeable your yellow pages’ ad was, the better. By Victoria Treyger, CMO of Kabbage.
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