Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2014

William Hertling is a web strategist, programmer, father, short-order cook and the author of two award-winning and best-selling techothrillers: Avogadro Corp: The Singularity is Closer than It Appears and A.I. In 2002, I met Libba and Gifford Pinchot, cofounders of Bainbridge Graduate Institute , at a retreat. Apocalypse.

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Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

The bulk of the patents they believe Facebook is infringing pertain to things like A) display & targeting of online ads, B) online privacy, C) personalization of a user’s web experience, D) general online messaging (Yahoo! owns a bunch of patents around email, IM, etc), and yes E) social networking. All the other stuff Yahoo!

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 10, 2018

If you lived through the Internet-bubble between 1999 and 2002 you know this cycle well. The web hosting business – lead by Exodus – almost entirely went bankrupt or was restructured. And, you know that the companies that survived it were the ones with very strong fundamental businesses (e.g.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 10, 2017

In 2002, Hewlett Packard signed a merger agreement with Compaq that would bring together the computer hardware businesses of the two businesses, each with revenues of over $40 billion. So between 2002 and 2007, Compaq continued to use their logo with little change. HP Merger With Compaq.

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Spencer Fry

JANUARY 23, 2013

I took a Visual Basic class in high school, enjoyed it, graduated in 2002 and entered college on track to get a Computer Science degree. I wanted to build real-world projects for the Web. Being on the computer was my life so naturally I felt that I should get a degree in something computer related, but it didn't last.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Ryan Smith co-founded Qualtrics in 2002 with his father in the family basement. But in the corporate world in 2002, no one was ready for it. They all had no idea what to do with us, because they were used to a database and the web, and the web sessions last for minutes at a time. And download any of the past shows here.).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

I wrote this on my flight home from f.ounders & web summit in Dublin, Ireland late last year. Between 1995-2002 I visited often – especially since I founded my first company there. The Origins of Web Summit / f.ounders. I think I was too hung over to finish it, hit publish and move on. The Magic of the Irish.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

A few weeks ago at the Dublin Web Summit, we caught up with Niklas Zennström , easily one of Europe’s most accomplished entrepreneurs with companies like Skype, KaZaa and Joost under his belt. Niklas also talks about how the European startup scene has changed, in his view, since he co-founded Skype with Janus Friis back in 2002.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Ryan Smith co-founded Qualtrics in 2002 with his father in the family basement. But in the corporate world in 2002, no one was ready for it. They all had no idea what to do with us, because they were used to a database and the web, and the web sessions last for minutes at a time. And download any of the past shows here.).

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

In 2002 I became exposed to the idea of “agile software development&# and subsequently was a first round investor in Rally Software which is now the market leader in Agile application lifecycle management software. . The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

While I am extremely proud of that team’s accomplishments (the parent company recombined Nordstrom.com in 2002 and the direct division now has revenue of over $1.25B and is the fastest growing unit inside of Nordstrom ), I built a healthy respect for the complexities and difficulties of managing women’s fashion inventory.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 22, 2011

I believe the phase we are currently in began in the early 1990′s with the invention of the World Wide Web and subsequent emergence of the commercial Internet. Or even just a web browser and a Google search on your iPad. But just let your brain take the leap that your iPhone is essentially making you a computer-enhanced human.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 7, 2011

Since 2002, the law form of Fenwick & West has conducted a venture capital survey, a response to "the burst of the 'dot-come bubble' and a desire to provide the entrepreneurial community with objective information about the status of the venture environment."

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Arizona Bay, after all, had built the IT infrastructure and Web applications that Jumpstart needed to hit it big. In 2002, he stepped gingerly into the work-for-equity arena, with a modest investment in one start-up. He prefers to work with companies that are building Web-based applications and have relatively low start-up costs.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 10, 2018

A promising writer will show talent in verbal communication skills, have a talent for persuading people over to his side of a debate, creativity, plus web programming or blogging software knowledge. I started writing novels in 2002. These are required specifically for new writers trying to enter the writing field.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 3, 2012

We’re thrilled to be part of a new web/TV reality series – Trep Life – giving audiences a unique, 360-degree view of what it takes to succeed as an entrepreneur. Each episode focuses on one company or organization. crowdSPRING was featured in episode six.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

They even create a tangled web of electronic files that are hard to unravel. It behooves you to strive for similar succinctness and to carry that across all your communications, from web to social media to presentations to just casual conversations at your country club. The World will conclude this list for today.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Were not going to have any form of advertising, but I am considering trying to offer a scholarship program to worthy entrepreneurs, just as we did for the Web 2.0 We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. I joined a financial services tech startup in 1999.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

NetGenesis had raised some money and had created three different products – net.Forms (a web form manager), net.Thread (a web threaded discussion board), and net.Analysis (a weblog analysis tool). In 2002 Jerry retired from venture capital and went on his own personal journey for meaning.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 29, 2017

Here’s how consistently sharing worked out for consultant and coach Robert Middleton of Action Plan Marketing : “Since 2002, virtually all of my business has come as a result of my email newsletter and blog. He posts answers to Quora, imports them into LinkedIn, and then uses them as the blog posts on his website.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

They have a new seed program (as of a few years ago) after eschewing seed investments from 2002 to 2008. He said “we changed that a few years ago.&# I suggested that their web site didn’t talk about their seed program; he responded “yeah, we need to work on our web site.&#.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

My Experience Back in 2002/2003 I spent hours writing a sales letter and emailing it to 15 local design firms, offering my services as an outsourced development staff (I coded in PHP,NET and Java at the time). Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 23, 2014

However, the rise of mobile devices, web services and web apps created a gap between consumer and business software. since 2002 and its Chief Executive Officer since February 8, 2006. This thinking used to work because consumer software and business software used to be similar in that everything was user-unfriendly.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Happy Cog is a studio founded by web pioneer Jeffrey Zeldman, whose influence helped drive forward web technology and standards in the early 00s. Specializing in web and digital design, Happy Cog’s client list is diverse and impressive. MCFaul+Day was founded in 2002 by John McFaul in Portsmouth, England.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 20, 2012

To see why, let’s wind the clock back to 2002 when Erica started her hosting company, Simpli. Sign up for AppSumo 's daily deals specifically for web geeks & entrepreneurs. And let’s suppose I started WP Engine at the same time. circa 2008.) That’s just irrational. Please chime in with a comment.

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VC Cafe

MAY 29, 2014

Neuroscience Solutions Corporation (founded in 2002 and rebranded to BrainHQ ), Lumosity (founded in 2005) and Fitbrains (2007, now a Rosetta Stone company) are the most well known examples of second wave cognitive gaming. While they may use mobile extensions, most second wave cognitive games are designed to be played on the web.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 The Past (1985-2002). Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. Social Networking in Web 1.0:

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Plus we don't use the web. I gave it about 10 minutes of thought. It used to be when we were all getting started in these URLs, it was really, really important, but now there's all these.info dot, you know, all these other variations. Like we used to. I mean, you know, it's like we don't need phone numbers. We Google it.

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Austin Startup

JULY 23, 2010

There must be many ways to maximize price (and therefore margin) if you can understand something about a web visitor. These are some things to think about when pricing products dynamically, but I’m sure Zilliant’s products are not just focused on realtime web. What time of day are they shopping?

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

million businesses – between just February 2002 and April 2020. Like many small business owners, the Cheffs exist in a web of other small businesses and are de facto workforce training, sometimes for young men who need nothing so much as a summerlong dose of hard physical work. Not surprisingly, this was the largest drop ever recorded.

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Up and Running

MAY 6, 2015

We as marketing people and people that use the web tend to over-estimate homepages in terms of their importance because they’re the front page of your site. The web designer’s like, “What do I do?” One of my favorite books in web usability called Don’t Make Me Think. What does the user want?

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2010

In 1998, Multi National Underwriters was founded by two entrepreneurs and in 2002 was purchased by the Noel Group in partnership with the original owners. We will connect with Mr. Noel via web conference on Thursday, October 7th, at 1 pm EDT / 10 am PDT. market share and 1,000 global employees.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Philip Bouchard : You’ve started teaching at Berkeley since 2002, Columbia in 2003 and at Stanford since 2011. Today, companies face five challenges they never had to deal with: Challenge one – As companies are discovering every day, the web has changed everything. Innovators are not entrepreneurs.

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Austin Startup

MAY 26, 2010

In the end it turned out to be web hosting company HostGator , as they plan to expand into Austin, initially employing 200 people, ramping up to 300 over the next 36 months. Who has the best web hosting is like arguing about religion or politics. But we were told who it wasn’t going to be.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Would you like to know my review process for improving web copy for myself and clients? For example, consider the following piece of copy from CopyLogic: “In 2002, members of Congress and President Bush began formulating a new economic bill to benefit a certain group of investments. ” Don’t drag it out.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

In a consumer Web venture, the hustler/sales guy is non-core (a few biz dev deals are important but not core). This is where some foundational technology around adaptive case management, real time/event driven, open data/semantic web and loosely coupled web services are starting to have an impact.

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