Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

As late as November 1995, Bill Gates wrote a book entitled The Road Ahead in which he predicted that the Information Super Highway would rule the future. After Mosaic, even Marc and his co-founder Jim Clark originally planned a business for video distribution to run on top of the proprietary Information Super Highway , not the Internet.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. Pierre Omidyar founded AuctionWeb in September of 1995, and its rise to fame is legendary. Exchange of Goods Marketplaces.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

“Acquire a new set of stories, concepts, and tools to help you digitally create, distribute, promote and price products and services.” Lynda.com is the oldest education resource online , with an origin story that stretches all the way back to 1995. ” Digital Marketing, offered by the University of Illinois.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

“Acquire a new set of stories, concepts, and tools to help you digitally create, distribute, promote and price products and services.” Lynda.com is the oldest education resource online , with an origin story that stretches all the way back to 1995. ” Digital Marketing, offered by the University of Illinois.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 18, 2011

I also plan to price it low so it has the potential for broad distribution. Pre Internet Bubble (1995 – 2000). Comments of any sort are welcome and encouraged! The table of contents, as of today, follows. The Boulder Entrepreneurial Community. Boulder As A Laboratory. Before the Internet (1970 to 1994).

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

In 1995 there were ~1,350 public hospitals representing ~27% of the industry. Sunshine Laws required that board meeting minutes, strategic planning documents, and similarly important materials were available for all competitors to see. High regulation in the post-industrial economy added to the public health system complexity.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Netscape and Opsware, which he helped found, went public with single-class share structures in 1995 and 2001, respectively. Personal Technology.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 12, 2016

After years owning and operating my own companies, I found myself at age sixty-four in a senior executive position with a manufacturing and distribution company, doing work I liked and making a contribution. When that company sold, he decided to pursue a lifelong passion — writing archaeological thrillers.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 14, 2016

The distribution of work is changing as people work with technology in a loop; where intelligence meets automation to create a progressive future. Prior to founding EnableSoft in 1995, Richard was a partner and served as Senior Vice President of FiTech PLUSmark, Inc. EnableSoft serves over 500 corporate clients worldwide.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 22, 2011

I’m an infopreneur who uses the Internet as a medium for distributing and monetizing information. My Internet Infopreneur’s Journey The year was 1995, and the Internet had just come to India. How Did This Avenue Of Making Money Online Appeal To Me? For the first few months, I simply browsed and learned.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Let’s say you’re a distributed startup team frustrated with your web meeting software. Remove distracting sections of the site that are unrelated, simplify the navigation, change images to match their demographic, etc. There are tons of possibilities. Understand.

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Brandanew

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Arbor brewing company was set up in the summer of 1995 in Ann Arbor, Michigan by the husband-wife duo of Matt and Rene Greff. We are running at a capacity of 9000 barrels each year and through our distribution (now in Ohio, N Carolina and a couple more locations that are coming up…) we just aim to get that out.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 19, 2019

Andy Rachleff co-founded the venture capital firm Benchmark Capital in 1995. Is your first instinct to turn it over to see who makes it, and to try to figure out what it might cost, and how is it distributed, and how many people might want it? Or is your first instinct to ask, why doesn't it have a keyboard?

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

developing techniques to effectively manage distributed teams and cut through cultural barriers: Focus on culture from day one. Startups are incredibly fluid early on, and these early days are critical to building teams that can communicate and function effectively in geographically distributed circumstances. Those that have are gold.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. If O’Reilly had that same insight in 1995, it could have been an amazing blitzscaling opportunity. Plenty of headroom there!

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Austin Startup

APRIL 12, 2017

About the Texas Mother-Friendly Worksite Program Created by the Texas Legislature in 1995 and administered by the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS), the Texas Mother-Friendly Worksite Program recognizes employers with written policies reflecting their support for their breastfeeding employees.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 29, 2016

OFM manufactures, distributes, and provides wholesale school furniture from their headquarters – North Carolina. Started in 1995, OFM is a family-owned furniture distributor with an eye on consumer satisfaction. You have office chairs, desks, tables, seats, and a whole range of furnishings that a company has to provide.

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Start Up Blog

AUGUST 22, 2015

It is fully distributed, via its public ledger ( the block chain ) and this is very unique to bitcoin. It might take 10 or more years, (think back to what the internet mean to you in 1995), but it is going to do for money, what the internet did for information. Nobody controls bitcoin. It is a thing. It’s also anonymous.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

NewTV will depend on partners like telcos to distribute the content. Given Verizon just shut down Go90 , its short form content video service, it will be interesting to see if Verizon distributes Katzenberg’s offerings.). Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000.

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

Reporting in the Harvard Business Review on a major study of growth stalls they conducted, Olson and his colleagues cite the case of the iconic brand Levi Strauss, which hit a historic high mark of sales in 1995, reaching revenue of $7 billion, but then, starting in 1996, saw a decline in sales so precipitous that by 2000, revenue was down to $4.6

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

The biggest happened much earlier in my career, in 1995.”. I’m sure it sounds unbelievable today, but in 1995, Fujitsu was a much bigger company than Apple in those days. Because of the Internet — and especially because of the World Wide Web — things were starting to move very quickly in Silicon Valley in 1995.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

One could argue that there’s nothing new here, as Internet distibution models started in 1995. But these VC’s aren’t Lean because they fund startups with web-based distribution models. Lean VC’s are expert in on-line distribution, Agile and Customer Development. Lessons Learned.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 10, 2018

In 1995, had it not been for the internet and the task of shortening our company name to a web address, it would never had happened. To date, we have distributed several hundred care packages and over 13,000 i understand tee shirts to show others we are stigma-free. Thanks to Vonnie Woodrick, i understand ! #26-

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aweissman.com

APRIL 14, 2010

All of it made me think back to my youth, the days of AOL, around 1995-1997. Indeed you can still see today he uses the same modified AOL logo he used back then: As a platform, this worked precisely because AOL provided the two key components every platform must deliver to create value: distribution , and monetization. Until it didnt.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

Jerry Maguire : A sports agent is fired from a prestigious sports management firm after pulling an all-nighter to draft and distribute a mission statement to the whole Company detailing how they should be doing business. Rogue Trader – about former derivatives broker Nick Leeson and the 1995 collapse of Barings Bank.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 7, 2020

The Grateful Dead is the one I’m most interested in because I started going to Grateful Dead concerts when I was 17, and I’ve been now to 75 Grateful Dead concerts, or the bands that followed the Grateful Dead with original members of the Grateful Dead because Jerry Garcia died in 1995. So that scares people, doesn’t it?

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