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Why the Browser Matters

Ben's Blog

Before my partner Marc Andreessen and his friends at the University of Illinois invented the browser in 1993, most people thought only scientists and researchers would use the Internet. The Internet was thought to be too arcane, insecure and slow to meet real business needs.

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Tapping the Strength of Intergenerational Living During a Crisis: A Nonprofit Board President’s View

Board Effect

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Students and Professors Try Open Innovation | Nature Publishing Group

Campus Entrepreneurship

InnoCentive, an organization based in Waltham, Massachusetts, that uses the Internet to link ‘seekers’ — client companies struggling with pressing scientific or business problems — with ‘solvers’ — more than 250,000 problem-cracking minds around the globe, InnoCentive claims.

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Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools

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Web/Internet/IT/eMedia. Internet/Online Only. Distribution. Internet/Digital Media. Finance/Accounting. Business Development. Marketing/Communications/PR. Production/Printing/Manufacturing. Operations. Companys Focus. Association Publishing. B2B Publishing. City & Regional Publishing. Electronic Data Publisher.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

At Blurb, we’ve built an Internet platform for people to produce their own bookstore-quality books. In March of 2009 EliteEditing.com launched, and I would run back and forth to an Internet café five blocks from my office to manage work coming through and to take business calls. That’s it. That’s what we do.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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Out of the Crisis #18: Sal Khan on institution building, solving the digital divide, and education as the lever for all decisions

Startup Lessons Learned

First of all, can we structure all of the resources that Khan Academy already has and other things on the internet so that we can help parents and teachers get their legs under them? Obviously, there's internet and device access. So, we said, "What do they need?" So, we published these daily schedules. It's well documented.