reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. In 2004, the consumer internet was just beginning to rebound. Friendster was at its height, strongly battling MySpace after raising its premium round from Benchmark and Kleiner in the fall of 2003. In 2004, investors regained interest in the consumer internet again.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 20, 2013

In the last decade, however, that common wisdom has shifted, at least for consumer internet companies. Ben cites Google and Cisco as rare exceptions where a professional CEO helped steer a company to market leadership and that the evidence is “one-sided and overwhelming” that you shouldn’t bring in a professional CEO.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Mike believes the reason AltaVista didn’t become Google ( despite their market leadership position ) was because they didn’t focus on search. Mike believed that search was an essential part of the Internet experience, and he guessed that it would evolve towards commercial search. Why AltaVista Failed To Become as Successful as Google.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

At the PA we teach leaders the principles of purpose-driven leadership so that they can create the absolute best value for those they are called to serve. Eitan Lev, was born in 2003 with a rare and serious heart defect known as TAPVR. She attributes their lives being saved as a result of hearing my story of loss and hope.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

They’ve been around for nearly 100 years, but they embraced technology and the Internet relatively early. The results of Alex’s experiments and early successes gave Alex the confidence to propose to the BBC leadership a new product vision and strategy which she called “BBC Out Of Home.”

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

In short, the first wave of internet companies were widely distributed and brought people online (AOL in Virginia, Microsoft in Albuquerque and Seattle, Dell in Austin, etc.) Many don’t know that since 2003, the Texas Enterprise Fund has provided incentives for businesses that relocate to Texas and create new jobs.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

He was really good at sales and leadership and ran the company from that perspective and I took care of the product to making it work and luckily I was able to grow into it and to figure it out, and looking back. We started that company in 2003, and we sold it in the 2011, so you frame up the timing. They were very much a luxury item.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 4, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! “We create as much information in 2 days now as we did from the dawn of man through 2003″ – [link]. Inspiration vs creativity can it be taught? – [link].

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

And going even further back there have been a few random ones have been built before like Salesforce.com and e-tailer RedEnvelope (IPO’d in 2003 though now defunct as a company). So why are software & internet startups more urban today than 5-10 years ago? This is true well before the internet era of Facebook, Yahoo!

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Designmantic Blog

MARCH 6, 2018

Aliza Sherman helped pioneer the internet for women and ultimately launched the first ever woman-owned company called Cybergrrl, Inc and created three websites Webgrrls.com, Cybergrrl.com and Femina.com. She also founded the first ever international women’s internet organization to aid women in constantly-increasing technical workplaces.

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