Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

I didn’t know anything about the internet, but I knew that he was a very smart guy, so I called him and asked if I could come. He said yes, so I found myself in Los Angeles during the first internet boom. We worked together through good times and bad.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

I didn’t know anything about the internet, but I knew that he was a very smart guy, so I called him and asked if I could come. He said yes, so I found myself in Los Angeles during the first internet boom. We worked together through good times and bad.

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2013

After a particularly embarrassing math bug in 1994 that cost Intel $475 million, the company decided to fix the problem by allowing it’s microprocessors to load fixes automatically when your computer starts. All hell broke loose when Edward Snowden leaked all this to press.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Contribute to development of primary business plan, with input on focus, costing and approach (platform, build vs. buy, resourcing, hosting strategy, time & cost). Where necessary, produce cost-benefit and risk justifications for IT initiatives to win budgetary support from the board. © 1996 - 2010 Reincubate Limited.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

This has two major drawbacks: the central directory can become a single point of failure, and there is a performance cost for having to consult the directory ever time you want to access data anywhere in the cluster. I just dont comment. :) Steve, The term was in active use in 1996 in the MMO world, which predates Googles founding.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Since 1996, ASLAN has worked with many Fortune 500 companies, training more than 100,000 sellers and leaders in over 35 countries. Top 20, since 1996, ASLAN has worked with many fortune 500 companies training more than 100,000 sellers and leaders all over in 35 countries. My guest today is Tom Stanfill. I don't real decision makers.

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

For I have stared into the countenance of evil and lived to speak the tale… A Long Time Ago (In Internet Years). It brought me back to the glory days of 1996. I emailed support and they replied with (this is not a joke): “If you’re using Safari as your internet explorer you will not be able to run the scan.&#.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

called The Rise of a Insta-Company, which theorized that open source, cheap bandwidth and increasingly falling cost of infrastructure would result in companies being built at a dramatically lower cost than ever before. I don’t think we as busy professionals and Internet junkies know how to sit still and self-reflect.

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Software By Rob

MAY 4, 2009

Except that four-figures in sales resulted in just a few hundred dollars in net profit after cost of goods sold. And even at $6/hour for the VA, the cost to place 100 orders manually through a shopping cart was close to $200. Sales shot up starting the next day and that month sales were in the low four-figures.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

for Internet Service, and $180.76 bill for Internet access. I stopped being annoyed by that a while ago and just view it as part of the cost of the room. I plopped down in my room, took out my laptop, went through the “connect to the Internet” process which appeared to cost $9.95 Good night.”

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Mr. Fralic has 25 years of technology industry experience, with significant Internet business development roles since 1996. Cost: $15/Members of HBS Angels of NY and/or HBS Club of NY; $40/Non-members & Guests. through the Yahoo! Time: 6:00pm Registration, 6:30 pm Program, please register by 3pm on Wednesday, January 11th.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

As the threat of cyberattacks grows, training in safe internet use and responding to external threats is vital for all IT workers. Last year, cybersecurity breaches cost businesses around the world $400 billion. The threat is growing, with cybersecurity attacks expected to cost global businesses $2.1 The statistics don’t lie.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 12, 2014

by Forbes magazine publisher Rich Karlgaard and author of “ The Soft Edge: Where Great Companies Find Lasting Success “ Avid market watchers know that the last two months have been devastating to fast-growth Internet stocks. A Berkshire Hathaway Chairman’s Letter from 1996 underlines that point.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2018

The Millennial generation – which generally refers to individuals born between 1980-1996 – continues to fascinate businesses. Costs are a bigger concern than for other generations. Millennials are more concerned with costs than other generations. by Sally Poblet, CEO of Wellthie. They prefer digital experiences.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 14, 2012

Since the Internet bubble burst in 2001, the number of IPOs hasn’t recovered to even 1980s levels. Or, in hard numbers from 1990 to 1996, 1,272 U.S. How bad is it? That's 30 years ago, folks. For perspective, before 2001 over 40% of all venture capital exits were via initial public offerings. companies went public.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 12, 2009

  Through various forms I have been involved from an investment perspective in wireless-related companies since 1996 when I made an investment in a company called AirMedia.    More importantly, will there be any grand slam venture capital opportunities in wireless?    I learned a lot from that investment. 

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 26, 2012

For those of you that don’t know, Longreads is a Twitter handle ( @longreads ), and a web service ( www.longreads.com ) that points to the best long form content on the Internet. Turning towards the Internet, Joseph Flatley’s Scamworld is a look inside the dark underbelly of “Internet Marketing.” Bonus: Q&A with the author.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And, as the industrial revolution showed us, there are some real costs to scale. Amazon saw that the internet would change retail. Thanks to the internet and other globalizing technologies, the entire world has entered the Networked Age. And Apple used the capacitive touch screen to develop a new paradigm for computing.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 12, 2009

  Through various forms I have been involved from an investment perspective in wireless-related companies since 1996 when I made an investment in a company called AirMedia.    More importantly, will there be any grand slam venture capital opportunities in wireless?    I learned a lot from that investment. 

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 5, 2016

Between 1996 and 2002 I was co-chairman of Interliant, a company I co-founded with three other people. And it creates endless organizational waste and misalignment when the CEO / investor / board member / leader isn’t clear about what she is saying and who her audience is. ” We eventually both started laughing.

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2011

When I first moved to California from New York in 1996 I saw the success of juice bars. And with the internet in its infancy there was no social media marketing I could do, nor job board-type sites that I could post on. And I was sitting at my kitchen table working on my juice company. And then it hit me. Now that was exciting.

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 21, 2014

It was the last day of the third quarter of the year and we hard more deals we needed to close to finish the quarter strong and report numbers to Wall Street that justified our high-flying profile as a recently public Internet commerce software company. This allowed our revenue to skyrocket from $1.8 million to $22.5

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet. I looked at the future predictions for “modem speed” (as I called it back then, today we’d called it internet connection speed or bandwidth). Gene Kim laughed at my prediction. But I digress…).

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Interestingly, the company’s founding vision was not a lean idea, but rather a big idea: to accelerate and manage Internet traffic on a global, highly scalable, highly distributed scale. Despite the Internet bubble bursting, the company was able to generate over $160 million in revenue in 2001.

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ConversionXL

MAY 31, 2017

The first wave of messaging software arrived with ICQ (launched in 1996), followed by AIM (1997), Yahoo! According to Mary Meeker’s 2016 Internet Trends Report , 6 of the world’s top 10 most used apps are messaging apps. Let’s be clear: Messaging isn’t some new, hot trend or magical technology. It’s been around since the mid-1990s.

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Austin Startup

MAY 21, 2017

But software and music both still cost money back then. Now today that might not seem that revolutionary, in fact you would expect to get most internet services by paying a monthly fee — but back then everyone ran their own servers. I had no costs! Like many college kids I had more time than money.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2016

And we know that because of the principles of Commitment and Sunk Costs , if someone expends energy or puts time into something, they’re more likely to complete said task. Interactive direct mail, in the flashy way like the examples above, probably isn’t as common, if only because of the costs associated with the scale of direct mail.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

But remember that when Jobs returned to Apple in 1996, he was doing so as the co-founder and CEO of NeXT computer, a marginal computer workstation company which Apple purchased for less than $500M. Despite this dynamic history, modern record company executives badly missed the most sweeping technical innovation—the Internet.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

I have been involved in startups since I graduated from college in 1996. The DIY mentality can really bog you down and become a burden eventually, plus it can really cost you more time and money in the grand scheme of things. I just wanted to break down those two pieces real quick the time side and the cost side.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

page, can -- despite the occasional new release from Adobe -- be considered a dead language, with all that this entails (difficulty finding and retaining good developers, vendor lock-in, horrendous cost, poor support, porting nightmares, infrastructure constraints). © 1996 - 2010 Reincubate Limited. XML sitemap.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 12, 2011

Fifteen years ago, in 1996, while I was still a student at Carnegie Mellon University , I wrote an article (blog post in today’s parlance) about the future of computing. After a little bit of digging through old backups, I found a folder with drafts of a couple of my old articles/paper from 1996. Sunday, May 05, 1996.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 12, 2011

Fifteen years ago, in 1996, while I was still a student at Carnegie Mellon University , I wrote an article (blog post in today’s parlance) about the future of computing. After a little bit of digging through old backups, I found a folder with drafts of a couple of my old articles/paper from 1996. Sunday, May 05, 1996.

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Caching Java .Net Networking 73

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Nicholas Carr wrote The Shallows , an incredible book on what the Internet is doing to our brains. That research was conducted all the way back in 1996. Aim for clarity and avoid subtlety and ambiguity at all costs. We can’t rely on task-invoked pupillary response to tell us how our sites are being processed cognitively.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

He focuses on investments in fintech, the internet, and software. I’m a partner at TCV, which we founded in 1996. When you put those two things together, you get high-quality customers, high LTV, and acquisition at super low costs. The theme of this episode is how to scale unicorns. Jonathan Siddharth . Welcome, David.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Intuitive URL – Legacy companies, which were named before the advent of the Internet and subsequently did not have the financial resources to purchase their company name URLs, are forced to shoehorn their names into URLs they can acquire. Kiss of Death – Contract Provisions Entrepreneurs Should Avoid at All Costs 21 comment(s).

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