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There’s Something Abuzz With GoodBuzz

YoungUpstarts

In 1993, it was during one of these long walks that he’d stumble on a philosophy that would determine his life’s path – that he’d do whatever it takes to succeed in life. Peer-To-Peer Referral Network. Mawuna Koutonin is the founder of London-based GoodBuzz , and his story is the stuff of dreams.

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Whose Life are You Going to Change?

Both Sides of the Table

It’s how Cory Van Wolvelaere changed my life: In 1993, after working at Andersen Consulting for 2.5 At Andersen Consulting I had built computer networks and programmed in COBOL. He introduced me to a senior guy from the “network solutions&# practice, a Dutchman named Valentijn Bonger. He asked for nothing.

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Here’s Why We Fell in Love with Draft

Both Sides of the Table

And social networks enabled rapid growth and also the ability to more easily find and play with friends or make new ones. I began playing Fantasy Football in 1993 before it was even a big thing. Online games had now become a monster industry and mobile was a huge driver through casual gamers.

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dot429.com – Professional Networking For The LGBT Community

YoungUpstarts

We can’t deny there can still be some form of discrimination against the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) community in the workplace (or elsewhere, for that matter), so perhaps it’s no wonder that they would come up with an online professional networking site – dot429 ( www.dot429.com

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You Don’t Need To Be An Engineering Genius To Start A Billion-Dollar Company

ReadWriteStart

” Kraus was talking about the economics of startups—the cheapness of servers, networks, and other raw ingredients of computing. Nearly 10 years ago, Excite founder Joe Kraus, now an investor at Google Ventures, declared “there has never been a better time to be an entrepreneur.”

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[Infographic] The Incredible Growth Of Web Usage

YoungUpstarts

What started as an experiment that connected academic and government computer systems has today become an entire globe-spanning network of interconnected machines and devices that not only include huge enterprise servers but also that mobile device in your hand. billion.

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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. This was not so illogical as most companies didn’t even run TCP/IP—they ran proprietary networking protocols such as AppleTalk, Netbios, and SNA.

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