Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

A big technical challenge we studied was piping streaming video over networks. We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet. Here’s an example using two personal computers, one from 1996 and one from 2011. Gene Kim laughed at my prediction.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

Infonautics went public in 1996 and Half.com was sold to eBay in 2000. They chose the name First Round Capital because they thought capital would be deployed most efficiently at smaller seed stage rounds considering the cost to build an internet business had come down drastically. and Half.com. Investing Strategy.

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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. John Jantsch (00:00): This episode of the duct tape marketing podcast is brought to you by the MarTech podcast, hosted by Benjamin Shapiro, brought to you by the HubSpot podcast network.

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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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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 17, 2013

DirecTV has supported this feature for some time, initially on the Internet via the browser and more recently via their smartphone application. For each and every Internet company out there, mobile is rising as a percentage of all user visits. Likewise Priceline and Expedia rule travel, not some travel company that exited pre-Internet.

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Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 12, 2021

I had launched my first business, a VAR, in 1996. The demand for networks was exploding. Every business wanted to connect to their PCs, their printers and the newest technology of all… the Internet. Internet ads, mailers, networking events, billboards, promotional items, it goes on and on. Netware 3.12

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 7, 2017

Many Internet companies are struggling. Len and I co-founded Interliant (originally Sage Networks) with Steve Maggs and Rajat Bhargava in 1996. His last company – the one he built with Jerry Poch that had acquired my first company – was bought in 1996 by GE Capital for $500 million.

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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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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

Regular computers must be united into a sophisticated computing network; big tasks should be broken into smaller ones; and all the possible contingencies — like slow internet or sudden computer shutdowns — must be taken into consideration. (Unless it’s a high-end supercomputer with a computing capacity of 10 000 regular PCs.)

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

In the early days of the Internet as an advertising medium the industry organized to create “standard ad units&# for which most media companies would sell their inventory. The standards were set by the IAB ( Interactive Advertising Bureau ), which was founded in 1996. Solve Media is that. More on that another day.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 20, 2013

1996 – “It’s impossible to get to build a billion dollar company selling widgets at $15 and taking $1 commission one at a time”. 2002 – “the social network fad is over”. 2011 – “There is no network effect in the enterprise software business; it’s not a category we invest in anymore”. Evernote, Dropbox). Myspace, Facebook).

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2013

Starting in 1996 with the Intel P6 (Pentium Pro) to today’s P7 chips (Core i7) these processors contain instructions that are reprogrammable in what is called microcode. Yet the one company’s name that hasn’t come up as part of the surveillance network is Intel. All hell broke loose when Edward Snowden leaked all this to press.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Hold responsibility for IT governance of platform & services, including telecommunications, networks, infrastructure, engineering, media, and architecture. © 1996 - 2010 Reincubate Limited. Prepare and test disaster recovery plans, and contribute to the broader business continuity plan. XML sitemap. VAT registered #867 0159 09.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 21, 2013

1996 – “It’s impossible to get to build a billion dollar company selling widgets at $15 and taking $1 commission one at a time”. 2002 – “the social network fad is over”. 2011 – “There is no network effect in the enterprise software business; it’s not a category we invest in anymore”. Evernote, Dropbox). Myspace, Facebook).

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Amazon saw that the internet would change retail. O’Reilly’s article describes two businesses from his own career at O’Reilly—the Global Network Navigator (GNN) web portal, which he sold to AOL, and the Website web server, which eventually fell by the wayside. Nowhere in our book do we recommend that all entrepreneurs blitzscale.

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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. Previously he was CEO of Quigo Technologies, a contextual ad network, which he sold to AOL for a reported $340m+. through the Yahoo!

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Board Effect

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Once you’ve posted something on the internet, it can go viral within seconds, leaving no room for a do-over. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 offers certain immunities for internet service providers that may lend some form of protection from allegations of copyright infringement, tortious conduct, or defamation.

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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

aweissman.com

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

With every mistake we must surely be learning I was having breakfast this morning with a new friend who happened to come of Internet age when I did with a similar set of experiences (he was one of the first 50 employees of Yahoo). I lived for rec.music and alt.binaries. Never translated into a browser based UI, maybe it was never meant to be.

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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. Consuming quickly led to creating.

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Austin Startup

MAY 21, 2017

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. After all, I was running it on the computer my parents bought me, in my fraternity house, hooked up to the school’s internet connection. I had no costs!

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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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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.    It raised an additional $30mm of venture capital after we invested and subsequently was long on buzz but short on customer adoption. 

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Faster networks meant people would be able to access information anytime, anywhere, on any device. I don’t think we as busy professionals and Internet junkies know how to sit still and self-reflect. Met you in 1996 Mr Malik and always knew that you were going to make it and make it big one day. They may [.].

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

© 1996 - 2010 Reincubate Limited. XML sitemap. VAT registered #867 0159 09. Company registered in England and Wales #5189175. Highlights: What do you need to raise investment? The problem with development consultancies How to recruit strong technical staff for start-ups Call: +44 (0) 844 3579899 Email: Tweet: @reincubate.

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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. billion MAUs for the top four social networks. It’s been around since the mid-1990s. Image Source.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

This is true of most web application servers, caches like memcached, and all of the network infrastructure that connects them. I just dont comment. :) Steve, The term was in active use in 1996 in the MMO world, which predates Googles founding. This makes sense, because stateless servers are easiest to scale - you just keep adding more.

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BeyondVC

OCTOBER 18, 2007

After a Nokia boat cruise with many of the team that launched the awesome Nokia Internet 810 tablet (I will get myself one of those), I had the opportunity to go to a MySpace party to celebrate the opening of their San Francisco office. Anyway, I happened to be in San Francisco for a portfolio company board meeting and some other events.

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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. Akamai: The Present.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

I first came across Bill when he was a Wall Street analyst and covered my company Open Market (IPO 1996). For purposes of this blog post, I am only focused on companies involving technology, whether software, Internet, health care or energy – which I’ll define as members of the Innovation Economy.

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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. Networking (21). However, there is no need for a startup to compromise with respect to its URL.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 13, 2012

Here’s a recap on the keynote, as well as some of the presentation and panel sessions: Trends, Fads & Transformation: The Impact of the Internet. Get the content right, and use the content to build the people network, and use that network to amplify content; and. · There really isn’t a “B2B” company.

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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. Are you going for private equity?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Around 2001 Jonah was studying at MIT Media Lab and began running experiments in viral stories in an era before smart phones (2007) and before social networks took off (2004–2007) and before YouTube (2005). It’s no longer necessarily just a long-form, audio on format — it’s becoming part of the fabric of the Internet.

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