Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

Many of these companies are started by entrepreneurs, and are now household names: Google, Yahoo, eBay and Intel. The cost of creating new companies is falling rapidly, and access to markets, distribution, and information is within the reach of anyone with an Internet connection. Startups are the lifeblood of our economy.

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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. The implications of the propriety vision were not good.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

In fact, 2010 venture capital fundraising is at the same level as it was in 1995 and 1996. The Long Awaited Arrival of the Internet Boom. The short answer is that the expectations of the great Internet boom vastly outstripped the actual activity. The total Consumer Internet market was 55 million people.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 28, 2011

There are 5 senses, and we still can’t experience 3 of them on the internet – so we must complete the connection / transaction off line…. The internet is trying to mimic the real world. The internet is in every second pocket. People born after 1995 have never know life without the internet. GENERATION D (Digital).

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

1995 ; De Lange et al., 1983 ; Burt, 1959 ; Weildon, 1995 ) but these have been soundly criticised on points of methodology. 1995 , Reynolds, 1979 ). 1995 , De Lange ), that shows no difference in legibility between serif and sans serif font on the web. 2001 ; Tullis et al., Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). 1998 , Bernard et al.,

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VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

McAfee entered into an OEM relationship with Sentrigo in 2010 to offer Sentrigo database security products under the McAfee brand name. McAfee’s products and services aim to secure systems, networks, and mobile devices around the world, allowing users safer connections to the Internet, and to browse and shop the Web more securely.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 9, 2012

Much has been written about the characteristics – and quirks – of the Millennial Generation, those born between 1982 and 1995. We know that the Millennials are defined by their love for and use of technology, but how much do they really embrace the Internet and their devices?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

Every one of these events (with names changed) has happened to companies I’ve worked at or closely with. Imagine how Flurry felt when Steve Jobs called them out by name. It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0,

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

This was pre Internet. It was in 1995 when I realized the power of personal branding. I worked in Rome on a small team with a really smart young woman named Elisabetta. We got to define Internet offerings for one of the largest telcos in Europe. I struggled to get the group to take me – they only took engineers.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 15, 2012

In operation since 1995, AltaVista is one of the web’s search trailblazers, and is still in operation today. For those of us who were around in the wild days of the internet’s infancy, the fact that the familiar name is still an existing entity might come as a surprise. MetaCrawler.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

In 1995 Paul started a company that aimed to put art galleries online. The startup’s name? Harness the internet to validate your business idea. Simply put, it’s not solving a real-life problem. That said, even renowned founders and investors like Paul Graham have made mistakes. Pied Piper.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2019

by William Ammerman, author of “ The Invisible Brand: Marketing in the Age of Automation, Big Data, and Machine Learning “ In the early days of the internet, the news was always free. Yet, from the beginnings of the internet age, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) never caved. And in that, there is value.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

First Name. The Wall Street Journal is phasing out support of the Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser. Internet Explorer. Netscape and Opsware, which he helped found, went public with single-class share structures in 1995 and 2001, respectively. Why use your real name? Please enter your first and last name.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Why Being on a College Campus From 1991–1995 Changed My Life. A high-speed network and connection to the Internet. I experienced multiple ‘holy s**t’ moments where it felt like the Internet was going to change everything and I was an early adopter. I saw that the Internet was about people, and creativity, and tribes.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

Every one of these events (with names changed) has happened to companies I’ve worked at or closely with. Imagine how Flurry felt when Steve Jobs called them out by name. It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0,

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Hunter Walker

JULY 3, 2021

Memories like those, plus a dressing room sign with my name on it, were what I took away from interning on Season Two of Late Night with Conan O’Brien while in college. And looking back, I never should have left the show. Maybe I would have been there through 26 more years (and a few location changes).

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 15, 2018

One of my first investments, when I moved to Boulder in 1995, was in a company called Email Publishing, which was the very first email service provider. While RSS has disappeared into the plumbing of the internet, there’s still something fundamental about it. One of our themes is Protocol. SMTP has been very good to me.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 4, 2013

We are looking for anything fun: entire creative campaigns, or partial campaigns – anything really: print ads, mailers, internet campaigns, social media, stunts, PR wherever your imagination takes you! My job is finding the right word or phrase for your product, service, business name or tag line. And a good name too!

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Campus Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 18, 2011

He and his wife, MacKenzie, moved to Seattle to take advantage of the explosive growth of the Internet and to start Amazon. The company’s original name, Cadabra, was nixed after someone misheard it as “cadaver.” Bezos quit his job in New York as a vice president at the financial-services firm D.E.

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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. And yet, many of the greatest success stories of the internet era involve founder/professional CEO partnerships. s Tim Koogle helped build Jerry Yang and Dave Filo’s startup into the world’s most valuable internet company.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

In addition, SecondMarket was named one of the Top Fifty Tech Startups You Should Know by BusinessWeek and recognized by Fast Company as one of eight startups "brimming with hope" for the financial industry. Barry was also recognized by Fortune as “One to Watch” in the publication’s annual 40 Under 40 issue.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 18, 2015

it is highly likely that you have Californian customers over the internet, so it pays to comply with the Californian state law. follows what is called the EU Data Protection Directive 1995, which sets out seven principles of data collection: Notice: Users should be given notice when their data is being collected.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2018

Hackney’s Arcola Theatre is rethinking the way it powers its name in lights. The chambers has adopted an integrated software tool which enables the secure production, sharing and storage of legal documents (even without an internet connection). Arcola Theatre – Hackney – first carbon neutral theatre. Pret a Manger.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 10, 2018

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. After a quick google it became clear that this was the name for our new agency. 2- A name that came to my mind. 1- Suggested by a friend.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. As a reminder, the Dot Com bubble was a five-year period from August 1995 (the Netscape IPO ) when there was a massive wave of experiments on the then-new internet, in commerce, entertainment, nascent social media, and search.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 29, 2016

China – Measures for Administration of E-Mail Service on The Internet (2006). When GDPR takes effect it will replace the data protection directive from 1995. Choose Name and Subject Lines Wisely. Belgium – Etat des lieux en juillet 2003, July 4, 2003. Czech Republic – Act No. Best Practices for Compliance.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. businessname #business #entrepreneur #startup #name #compilation #instagram #ceoblognation #blog #newblog #blogpost #livetoday.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

My generation, dubbed Generation X after a popular novel of the same name , was typically characterized as being aimless and cynical, prematurely embittered by dead-end jobs, the generally awful state of the world, and an overall sense of cultural exhaustion. The biggest happened much earlier in my career, in 1995.”.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

During the Internet Bubble there were a number of startups founded by business people who then wentlooking for hackers to create their product for them. If you work your way down the Forbes 400 making an x next to the name of each person with an MBA, youll learn something importantabout business school. This doesnt work well.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 28, 2016

If you want to bring a smile to people’s faces when they hear your company name, you’ll need to understand how memory works and how you can design for it. One of the most well-known studies on memory was published in 1995 by Donald Redelmeier and Daniel Kahneman. How Memory Works. via Scientific American).

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

At the same time it seemed that whenever I would have a conversation with a friend, family member, colleague, manager, executive–you name it!–about I have encountered numerous companies with bad customer service, or bad financial management, or unprofessional stuff, you name it. Why the name? Image Credit: Gail Levy.

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Diego Basch

AUGUST 21, 2012

The main flaw in his reasoning seems to have escaped investors like George Zachary and Marc Andreessen (dude, I always have to google your last name). To put it in a few words: Silicon Valley and the internet industry are not one and the same. Of course the internet is a tool to solve them, just like computers and calculators.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Wikipedia gives the impact on financial bubbles as an example: “The Dot-com bubble, also knowns as Internet bubble, referenced the speculative investment bubble that was created around new internet startup companies between the years 1995-2000. Still, not everyone agrees this is a sustainable strategy for most companies.

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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. It delivered monetization through its pricing scheme: users paid AOL for Internet access by the hour ($6.95 All of it made me think back to my youth, the days of AOL, around 1995-1997. Escapin through the lily fields I came across an empty space.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Well, to be honest, it wasn’t much of a business plan, because in 1995, I knew next to nothing about ‘business’ After reading an article about how critical it was to have one, I put pen to paper and jotted down some notes to myself. And each time, I noticed the same familiar names in my inbox. My first raving fans!

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Well, to be honest, it wasn’t much of a business plan, because in 1995, I knew next to nothing about ‘business’ After reading an article about how critical it was to have one, I put pen to paper and jotted down some notes to myself. And each time, I noticed the same familiar names in my inbox. My first raving fans!

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