Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

When I started my first company in 1999 we spent more than $2 million on technology infrastructure including Sun servers & Solaris operating system, Oracle databases, EMC storage, load balancers, app servers, back-up devices, disk mirrors and on and on. I’m just listed who I perceive as the market leaders. Other Layers.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

Cotter bucks the flavor-of-the-day entrepreneurial stereotype: the college dropout popularized by both our own Michael Dell and recently Mark Zuckerberg and the great movie The Social Network. We started Coremetrics in 1999 selling to dot-coms. One of my friends is going through a “failure” right now.

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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). Universities are also creating more interdisciplinary programs in order to encourage this collaboration.

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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. Social network by IOV Labs, the company behind RSK.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Don’t spend like it’s 1999. Computing will be an order of magnitude more mobile 10 years from now, changing the way applications are delivered and the way we interact with our real social networks. And Social. Don’t want to call it either way. It’s too early. Raise your money.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

AUGUST 27, 2011

A notable site is FaceSmash which sold for $30k the week the movie Social Network came out. Even Perez Hilton blogged about Flippa because of its relationship to FaceSmash and Social Network. To this day they have auctioned off $55m worth of websites with 55% of website sales ending above it’s initial sales price.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

million in 1999, Zappos is now worth $1 billion. Go though social network. There is great probability your competition has put up its own social media pages. From a company worth $1.6 See Also: What Defines Your Company Culture? Focus on flexibility of strategy. Call them up!

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. I am very grateful to my friend Zoli Erdos for finding this retro posting for me at web.archive.org.

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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. On a “dream big” kind of note, I would love to meet Mark Cuban as he was one of the people responsible for broadcast.com back in 1999 when it sold to Yahoo.

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The Equity Kicker

APRIL 11, 2012

Instagram doesn’t rely on other social networks and transition to ownership by Facebook won’t create any difficulties with Google and other competitors changing their attitude to the business. I think that is the difference between 1999 and today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2016

For example, Amber Alert GPS will make sure your kids don’t wander outside of safe zones, Site24x7 will let you know if your web site is down, and Radian6 monitors social networks so you know what people are saying about your brand.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 20, 2013

1999 – “The search engine game is over”. 2002 – “the social network fad is over”. 1998 – “There is no room for personal productivity software startups – Microsoft will eat your lunch when you get big enough and Symantec will take the crumbs”. Evernote, Dropbox). Myspace, Facebook). Everything).

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

Social networks - When I raised capital in 1999 it was hard to know who knew the VCs. Best not to approach the larger investments. I’m guessing it’s easier to get a meeting these days from Fred Wilson at Union Square Ventures than from Evan Williams at Twitter. Now it is spelled out for you in black & white.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. In the era of social networks, LinkedIn, Facebook messaging, Quora and email addresses that are easily guessable, it’s easy to think that maybe you should just approach a VC directly. They seem so reachable.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2011

In 1999, there were 486 IPOs nationwide; just 10 years later, in 2009, there were only 63. At any rate, it seems only appropriate that social media sites, which have dominated the Internet over the past few years, will likely lead startups back into the IPO game. The market is moving back up, but slowly. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2015

For example, Amber Alert GPS will make sure your kids don’t wander outside of safe zones, Site24x7 will let you know if your web site is down, and Radian6 monitors social networks so you know what people are saying about your brand.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 21, 2013

1999 – “The search engine game is over”. 2002 – “the social network fad is over”. 1998 – “There is no room for personal productivity software startups – Microsoft will eat your lunch when you get big enough and Symantec will take the crumbs”. Evernote, Dropbox). Myspace, Facebook). Everything).

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Seth makes extensive use of social networking tools, and web videos to maximize the impact of his training. Previously, from 1999 to 2001, Seth was a Senior Revenue Accountant for the Veterinary Centers Of America. Seth makes extensive use of social networking tools, and web videos to maximize the impact of his training.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 29, 2011

Undersecretary for International Affairs and then Deputy Treasury Secretary for President Clinton between 1993 and 1999. Became US Treasury Secretary in 1999. Intimately involved in resolving major macroeconomic crises in Mexico, Russia, and elsewhere. President of Harvard from 2001 to 2006.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2009

You think that anybody really believed 1999 that two young kids out of Stanford had a shot at unseating Yahoo!, .&# Look at Google. Excite, Ask Jeeves and Lycos? Yeah, right.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

After AOL acquired Netscape in 1999, the browser wars ended and browser innovation stopped for many years. In 1996, there was no social networking, no video, no search that worked, no RSS, and no Twitter to name a few. And we all would have paid many vigorishes in the meanwhile. Rockmelt and the next wave of innovation.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

It was 1999. As our name suggested, we were a social network well before places like Friendster , MySpace, and then Facebook took that concept mainstream. After leaving Fujitsu a couple years earlier, I had co-founded a company called SocialNet and was in charge of product there.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

That was in 1999 – we were in fact one of the first food companies to offer e-commerce to consumers. While we’ve run ads on television and in magazines in the past, social media is our primary tool for communicating with our customers.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 18, 2013

Customers not only talk about their delight on social networks, but also love the experience so much that when they next purchase shoes, they will again buy from Zappos. However, little variation can keep the suspense (Pine and Gilmore 1999) and continue to surprise. Surprise can be small and inexpensive. A few words of caution.

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Up and Running

MARCH 18, 2013

I answer these same exact same publishing questions every day like it’s 1999. I actually started a book-publishing company in my college dorm room in … 1999. That’s why they invented social networking… to promote your own agenda. Why do they even call it social networking? No problem. Not joking.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

But the Valley in 1999 was a new world of startups, venture capital, and stock options. 1999/2000 was the startup heyday, and I was in the hot space of telecoms – it all looked promising. There were no social networks, let alone sharing economy then, so it took a while to take off.

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David Teten

JANUARY 8, 2013

16% of visitors came from the blog or social networking sites. Since 1999, its Partners have made over 160 investments in over 55 companies. A visitor’s average time on the site had increased from 1:32 to 3:17 minutes. In addition to a blog, ffVC operates accounts on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 22, 2009

  In an old New York Magazine article from 1999 Josh proclaimed that ""The potential for a company like Pseudo is to start from a Website and replicate the success of ABC, NBC, or CBS — a long shot but an enormous payoff."   I hope you enjoy the trailer and more importantly my brother-in-law's music.

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Pascal's View

MARCH 14, 2011

Collins said he would like to include a social-networking element, but would probably piggyback on existing networks such as Facebook and LinkedIn. now Thomson Reuters, and then in 1999 co-founded NeoCarta. BoardSpring has so far organized one event, a meeting in Boston in February attended by about 50 people.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

APRIL 18, 2012

The 1999 made-for-TV movie “Pirates of Silicon Valley” chronicled the birth of Apple and Microsoft and their quirky co-founders Mr. Jobs and Bill Gates, though it generated little mainstream buzz. Then came “The Social Network,” the 2010 film about the origins of Facebook.

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Seeing Both Sides

MARCH 18, 2013

The article contained a chart showing music industry revenues peaking in 1999 at $27 billion and dropping consistently as a result of the disruptive power of digital music and iPods/iPhones. They're also getting subsidized by business advertisers through social networks and search.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

I believe that it was erroneous not to answer the two questions above, it was erroneous to be tempted by the Big Numbers and not understand how Social Media channels actually worked (streams, home pages, personalization, rankings and more). if your business should be on that network and 2. So, let's fix that error. They should.

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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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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2016

It might be fun to spend two hours daily on Facebook or Twitter hunting for customers, but the more important question you should be asking is whether your prospective customers are looking for you on those social networks. For example, take a look at Buffer’s 5 Unique Ways to Measure and Evaluate a Social Media Campaign.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

The concept of “economic moats” came from a 1999 Fortune article by Warren Buffett: The key to investing is [.] Social networks have their own switching costs. determining the competitive advantage of any given company and, above all, the durability of that advantage. This is the moat-building that Musk bemoans.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 11, 2013

We connect them to hundreds of thousands of potential new customers using email marketing, social networks, and display ad campaigns. Borderless world. This is what they say about themselves: We are an distribution channel for companies that help entrepreneurs start, grow, optimize, and scale their businesses. 80 000+ Facebook fans.

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ConversionXL

MAY 31, 2017

Messenger (1998), and MSN/Windows Live Messenger (1999). Finally, for those who were (or still are) convinced that social networks would be the next big communication channel, consider this: In September of 2016, Business Insider reported that messaging apps had surpassed social networks in monthly active users (MAUs).

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