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Debating the Tech Bubble with Steve Blank: Part I

Ben's Blog

In the last bubble, the S&P hit 44x in January 2000. So it looks like the market leaders are trading closer to recession multiples than bubble multiples. Let us look at examples of the last two major computing cycles (prior to the Internet). The internet is working. Currently, the S&P is trading at 22x.

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From Airbnb to TaskRabbit to Zimride, sharing is becoming big business

www.usatoday.com

The dot-com boom of early 2000 saw a proliferation of similar anything-at-your-service start-ups. The advent of GPS, the always-on Internet and social networks enable finding things in real time from people you somewhat trust. Thats real money." Struggling to manage costs, the start-up closed shop as quickly as it opened.

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How to Keep Discounts from Killing Your Business [PART 3]

Up and Running

the key principles you should keep in mind when sending newsletters or advertisements are that your direct marketing messages should be: An accurate description of the product or service, legal, decent, truthful, honest, and socially responsible (not encouraging illegal, unsafe, or anti-social behavior). . The FTC in the U.S.

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Is There a Valuation Bubble for Social Media Companies (and if so, is it Bursting)?

Pascal's View

In April 2011, just prior to the Linked In, Pandora, and RenRen IPO’s, Fred Wilson reaffirmed his belief on his blog that we were not in a bubble in this sector: “I n all the posts over the past year or so outlining my thoughts on the financing and valuation environment in the internet sector, I’ve avoided using the word Bubble.

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Fear and Greed: What Drives Human Behavior?

ConversionXL

They’re also two triggers that direct marketers and copywriters have been well aware of for years. In that time, exorbitant prices of new Internet companies motivated investors to invest into companies whose business plans included a “dot com” domain. appeared first on ConversionXL.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I had a lot of fun learning what the internet could do for me. In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering. I was getting more into internet marketing and trying to ramp up my income.

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

alexpoole.info

2000-2001 , Tullis et al., Publications (in German) were: Wendt, Dirk (1970): Zur Lesbarkeit von Druckschriften (On the legibility of print), Umschau in Wissenschaft und Technik 70 (13), p 417-418, and in more detail: Wendt, Dirk (2000): Lesbarkeit von Druckschriften. 2000-2001 , Tullis et al., 1998 , Bernard et al., Bernard, M.,