Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

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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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JUNE 2, 2022

Perhaps, this is why PDFs are the most popular file extension on the internet today! In 1993, Adobe invented the PDF format, and ever since, it has seen various updates, innovations, and modern features. It can contain texts, links, graphics, or tables; basically, any content you wish to show!

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

In 2012, most everyone takes the Internet for granted and believes its emergence to be a logical, evolutionary step. Marc released Mosaic in 1993. A review of the technology press in 1993 and 1994 reveals that almost nobody believed the Internet would be important.

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Start Up Blog

JULY 7, 2014

It wasn’t so long ago that these statements were made about the internet as a commercial platform: It’s for nerds. There will never be any internet payments. No one will put their credit card on the internet. It’s an open-source kind of thing so there will be no Internet companies. It’s slow.

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

1993 ; Moriarty & Scheiner, 1984 ; Poulton, 1965 ; Coghill, 1980) ). Sassoon, 1993 ; Rubinstein, 1988 ). Pingback: Quelle police d’écriture sur internet? There are plenty of studies that show no difference between the legibility of serif and sans serif typefaces ( Tinker, 1932 ; Zachrisson, 1965 ; Bernard et al.,

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 14, 2014

When asked why he founded Amazon he said that he was working on Wall Street in the early 1990s when someone showed him how fast the internet was growing he knew that something very important was happening. You can see from the chart below that the number of internet hosts grew 10x from 1989 to 1993 – that’s roughly 2x a year.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 7, 2017

Many Internet companies are struggling. I was on three other public company boards, including being co-chairman of MessageMedia with Jerry Poch, who was Len’s partner in their previous company (AmeriData Technologies – which had bought my first company – Feld Technologies – in 1993). It’s the summer of 2001.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

Pete Cashmore at Bloomberg Venture , July 7, 2010: By this point, anyone familiar with new media, technology, social media, and the Internet know Mashable, seeing as how it’s currently one of the largest, most profitable blogs around.

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David Cohen

MARCH 30, 2020

I started my first business in 1993, right in the middle of the recession, because I didn’t know any better. In 2000, the Internet bubble burst. I didn’t really see how it would affect me. We raised a lifetime grand total of $100,000 for that business in the form of advance payment from early customers.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Ive been helping create software and Internet companies for over 25 years, starting with my first company, Feld Technologies, in 1985 when I was in college. We bootstrapped the business because we had to and by 1993, when we sold the company to a large public company, we’d built a nice, consistently profitable business.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 2, 2010

California Milk Processor Board) – 1993. Insurance companies speak with a different voice than Internet companies. If you’d like some additional background on branding, you might want to read Branding Secrets of the World’s Best Brands and What Can You Learn From The World’s Best Brands. That’s OK.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 2, 2010

California Milk Processor Board) – 1993. Insurance companies speak with a different voice than Internet companies. If you’d like some additional background on branding, you might want to read Branding Secrets of the World’s Best Brands and What Can You Learn From The World’s Best Brands. That’s OK.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

In 1993, Word 6.0 They’ve been around for nearly 100 years, but they embraced technology and the Internet relatively early. I don’t think these stories have ever been shared publicly before, and they are stories that I believe deserve to be told. WORD FOR MAC – Martina Lauchengco. BBC MOBILE – Alex Pressland.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2018

This was in 1993, and I was the chief marketing officer at Frito-Lay North America. I personally bought the citibank.com URL and introduced the first internet-based online banking. This was during the internet explosion, so I’d say it was called the digital revolution 1.0. What was it, and how did it come about?

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 16, 2019

When I left Procter & Gamble as VP in Global Business Services and IT after a career of 27 years, I’d been associated with setting up the first shared services operation in the Philippines in 1993 — program managing an $8 billion dollar outsourcing deal.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 8, 2018

In the mid 1990s I knew that the internet was a game-changing technology. In 1997 I founded an internet company named Perficient, and it went public in 1999. The dawn of the internet age was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for a technology entrepreneur. The first paradigm shift (the internet) created mass information exchange.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

The internet and almost universal access to it has meant that hundreds of millions of people can share their ideas, opinions and stories at the drop of a hat. Consider: in about 1993, Apple released the Apple Newton. Just the best executed. Don’t be afraid of copying good ideas if you can do them better!

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2011

Fundtech develops transaction banking solutions that automate activities such as payments, cash management, settlement, liquidity management, and the financial supply chain, and was founded in 1993. S1 Corporation delivers integrated financial services on an open platform to leading financial institutions, retailers, and processors.

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Start Up Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Web zealots have been espousing the end of Television since the first internet graphical user interface Mosiac started getting downloaded in 1993. So the battle for eyeball supremacy between TV and the internet never actually happened. It’s 17 years later and TV hasn’t disappeared yet.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 2, 2015

By 1987 I was regularly using faxes and Federal Express (the only overnight mail I was aware of), but a mobile phone and email didn’t really show up until around 1993 for me. The web appeared in 1994 and a completely different method of communication started its long march into integrating in our universe.

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Start Up Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2012

The first free downloadable graphical web browser ‘ Mosaic ‘ was launched in January 1993. The second phase was the one that confirmed this internet thing was not just a passing fad. The graphical web as we know it is about to have its 20th anniversary. Step forward phase three – the web of things.

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Start Up Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Buckle in – we are about to get the missing link to the Internet we were promised in the mid 1990’s. Miramax contended it had certain “broad rights” to “Pulp Fiction” because the director had “granted and assigned nearly all of his rights” to Miramax in 1993. When it comes to market growth, NFTs are the clear winner of 2021.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Three years later, you can’t throw a stone on the internet without finding articles starting to talk about the importance of craft in content. I landed on Craft Your Content, as the whole point to learn how to better craft their content work. I was told at the time it was a horrible idea, and no one would know what craft meant.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 20, 2010

I graduated from high school in 1993 and enrolled into the Art Program at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Seeing my designs out on the internet is probably the most rewarding feeling. I left my Winnie Cooper standing in her doorway. After 2 years at the UW and a lot of beer-bonging, I took a break from school.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 20, 2010

I graduated from high school in 1993 and enrolled into the Art Program at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Seeing my designs out on the internet is probably the most rewarding feeling. I left my Winnie Cooper standing in her doorway. After 2 years at the UW and a lot of beer-bonging, I took a break from school.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 6, 2010

Design fees are at a 1993 level, despite salary increases and operation costs. Definitely a bloke thing, and one that got sent round the internet, great to see. Even looking at the internet, and phone technology. And years ago people where saying, nah I don’t need the internet. Well thankfully we do. Awesome!

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 6, 2010

Design fees are at a 1993 level, despite salary increases and operation costs. Definitely a bloke thing, and one that got sent round the internet, great to see. Even looking at the internet, and phone technology. And years ago people where saying, nah I don’t need the internet. Well thankfully we do. Awesome!

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 9, 2015

And then the Internet happened. And somewhere along the way, storytelling started getting replaced by “content creation”—a term that didn’t exist before the Internet. And that’s what we always called it: storytelling. This was also the time web browsers like Yahoo!

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

SaaS 101: 7 Simple Lessons From Inside HubSpot - OnStartups , July 19, 2010 It’s been a little over 4 years since I officially launched my internet marketing software company , HubSpot. California Milk Processor Board) – 1993. I got a taste of that within my first weeks on the job. Make it unique.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Which is, do we let a spy agency safeguard us domestically at home on the internet? I’m not sure if there’s a good answer to how would I balance the reality that it’s a totally insecure, wild, wild west on the Internet, with the idea that the privacy and anonymity of the Internet, in many countries, is really important.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

Consulting Google, the oracle of the Internet, indicates that there is little in the way of consensus regarding the possibility of a tech boom/bust scenario playing out in the near term. The first page results of a search for “tech 2.0 bubble” include articles and tweets from the Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Forbes, and CNET.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

The rapper who brought us “U Can’t Touch This” and “2 Legit 2 Quit” is now trying to give us a new way to look him up on the Internet. Sadly, none of her ideas were realized and she ended up selling the town in 1993 and filing for bankruptcy. MC Hammer’s search engine. Raquel Welch’s line of wigs.

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