Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

At the time Jobs regained control of Apple, the conventional wisdom said that Apple was getting killed by “PC Economics” and had to separate the operating system from the hardware. In addition to the basic hardware and operating system, he added applications (iLife, iWork) and peripherals (like the iPod). He even added retail stores.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2016

According to a 1996 HBR article , interactive marketing included “the ability to address an individual and the ability to gather and remember the response of that individual.”. First off, live chat is a great strategy to increase conversions (if you can make it work on an operational level). Add contact forms. Add landing pages.

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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. We alsothought wed be able to sign up a lot of catalog companies, becauseselling online was a natural extension of their existing business.But in 1996 that was a hard sell.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Im talking about the actual data-fetching operation. This information is normally maintained by your operations team. Ive always liked the term sharding precisely because it has a well-known video game antecedent. Im not talking about high-level abstractions (like an object-oriented view of a customers data). Expo SF (May.

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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. infoChachkie. Hands-on startup advice for emerging entrepreneurs. Launching Venture (34). Parenting (4).

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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. The only way it will grow is to leave the home, hence mobile video; and. · The iPad will replace the PC for over 90% of the population.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

there’s a great story from Jonah in the video but you have to watch to hear it :)) But it’s undeniable that it has become a digital media powerhouse having raised around $500 million in capital with a valuation reported at $1.7 I asked Jonah about his started position in photos, lists, GIFs and text and where he thought video fit in.

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