Growthink Blog

JUNE 4, 2012

So lots of companies went public - 1,272 of them from 1990 to 1996 - and Wall Street was very much about "long" promotion of companies' growth potential and as "analog" distributors of their stocks. Compare that to today's financial markets.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

We recently wrapped up our strategy offsite, an annual event that brings together the members of our very distributed team – 12 different cities in four different countries – to discuss what our aspirations and ambitions are for the coming year. So from day one, my knowledge about how to do a startup was zero. They may [.].

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Software By Rob

MARCH 12, 2009

Front End Developer Resume, An 11-pound Notebook, A 2-pound Netbook, and Internet 1996 → How Third-Party Licensing Can Ruin Your Launch Micropreneurship , Startups If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place. Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. 2 Rob on 03.12.09

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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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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 22, 2011

I’m an Internet infopreneur. 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. I built my first website in 1996. That website was a labor of love.

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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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aweissman.com

APRIL 14, 2010

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. AOL offered distribution through its thousands and then millions of users. Until it didnt.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Many people know Akamai as the purveyor of the Internet’s backbone. Incorporated in 1998 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company’s network of over 100,000 globally distributed servers provides an infrastructure layer that accelerates the distribution and delivery of content, media and applications.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

This is great for something like a huge DHT or a distributed work queue. I just dont comment. :) Steve, The term was in active use in 1996 in the MMO world, which predates Googles founding. Consistent hashing has the property that only a small number of entries need to be remapped when a node is added or removed.

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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. We believed this thing would be able to unlock a multi-product distribution and really strengthen the business mode. The theme of this episode is how to scale unicorns. Jonathan Siddharth . Welcome, David.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

At the time of its launch, the name “cisco” was also confusingly similar to SYSCO, the $20B food distribution company. Readily Pronounceable – A name’s proper accent should be obvious, as made painfully clear in the 1996 Tom Hank’s Movie, “That Thing You Do!”

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

I have been involved in startups since I graduated from college in 1996. Bates: Good morning and welcome to our CEO panel, “How to Fine-Tune Your Small Business Finances From Funding to Growth” which I think is the direction that we would all like to be going. My name is John Bates. Bates: Fantastic. Thank you Sabrina.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

For those too young to remember perhaps the best known of this era came in 1996 and was known as Dancing Baby , a strange, animated gif of — you guessed it. A few years ago Jonah acquired Ze Frank’s video production company and the two of them have really built an enormous video production & distribution business.

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