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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

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. This era was dominated by a ZIRP (zero interest rate policy) of the federal reserve and easy money in search of high yields and encouraging growth at all costs.

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Book: In the Beginning…Was the Command Line

Feld Thoughts

Stephenson wrote it in 1999. I started manually deleting them by Search Channels one by one. Well, except the Baroque Cycle trilogy, which I’m saving for a special period of time to get lost in them, and from everything. Last week I read In the Beginning…Was the Command Line. For the second time. We watched it last night.

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Finding Developers is Tough Again

SoCal CTO

One recruiter tells me it’s “like 1999? I wouldn’t say it’s 1999 or even 2007, but it certainly has turned around. The founder had tried or considered: Web Search – not all that useful – more design firms that development firms LinkedIn – searched for people, but gave up pretty quickly as it felt like a needle in a haystack.

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Hyperlocal Marketing: A Tried And True Method For Successful Online Marketing

YoungUpstarts

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. In 1999, search results were fairly objective. Everybody who searched for the same keywords saw the same results listed in the same order.

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Market Like Its 1999 In 2015 – 9 Marketing Strategies That Worked Back Then & Still Work Now

YoungUpstarts

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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PC For Rent – How To Make Money Searching For Extraterrestrial Intelligence

YoungUpstarts

The first project of this kind was GIMPS , a large-scale program launched in 1996 for the purpose of searching for Mersenne prime numbers , that is prime numbers of the form 2 p — 1 where P is a random integer. It analyzes radio signals from the outer space searching for extraterrestrial civilizations.

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First Impressions Matter: Why Great Visual Design Is Essential

ConversionXL

The search box. Of all the feedback the test participants gave, 94% was about design: Complex; Busy layout; Lack of navigation aids; Boring web design; Use of color; Pop-up adverts; Slow introductions to the site; Small print; Too much text; Corporate look and feel; Poor search capabilities. Users spent 6.48 The main navigation menu.

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