Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

Lately, everybody seems to be talking about a new technology bubble. Similarly, in recent high profile private financing rounds for private technology companies with valuations over $1B, the valuation multiples were at or below corresponding multiples for publicly traded companies such as Google. LL Cool J, Going Back to Cali.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2020

Of course, part of the change is that Gen Z (born after 1996) now outnumbers the Millennials (born after 1981). But even the older Boomers have learned to use technology and social media as the source of expectations from your business, more so than your own traditional marketing. Use new technology to personalize and expedite.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

This generation is much more technology-focused than previous ones, so increase your online presence. The most recently named generation, Gen Z, are those born from 1996 to 2015. Also, if you thought that technology was important for millennials, wait until you engage with Generation Z. Millennials.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2010

To be sure, a number of well-known tech titans started more-or-less this way: Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Hewlett-Packard, to name a few. The article summarized several findings that I personally found surprising: Technology company founders born in the U.S. had an average age of 39 when they started their companies.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 30, 2023

13:28] Technology is really running our lives now, how do you sort of insert play into that conversation? [15:59] That wasn't my intention in 1996. So there's positives and negatives to sort of the technology I think. 15:59] Give us some examples of how you’ve incorporated play in platforms like Meetings or Teams. [18:39]

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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. They share stories with world-class marketers who use technology to generate growth and achieve business and career success. I've got my email and I just gotta write it on changing names. powered by.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. The importance of a domain name. For Gabriel Kuperman, founder and CEO of CuePin, finding a good domain name was a key part of his branding strategy. or even be a U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Let’s call these cards 1996-99, 2005-08 and 2010+. But VC is also a very important part of the technology ecosystem – like it or not. He believes that returns are derived by industry-changing companies and as an investor in LinkedIn, Yelp & YouTube (to name a few) I guess he’s got the credibility to say that.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2024

And now, finally after a decade of work by the CIA’s Science and Technology Division, the first digital photo reconnaissance satellite – the KH-11, code-named KENNEN – which could do all that, was heading to orbit. Polaroid’s first digital camera wouldn’t hit the market till 1996, by which time the battle had been lost.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 17, 2024

No, not 19 2006, not 1996, 2006. John (03:05): So the technology, the world we live in, all the things that have changed. Scroll back to top Sign up to receive email updates Enter your name and email address below and I'll send you periodic updates about the podcast. Phil (01:40): Well, when I started, I had no clue.

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Board Effect

MAY 1, 2019

HIPAA is a federal act that Congress passed in 1996 to help patients protect their personal and sensitive information. PHI refers to such information as name, address, Social Security number, photo, ZIP code, treatment date, employer, family information, health conditions or other notable characteristics.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2012

By the 1930s, P&G had grown to become an international corporation with a wide variety of new products and brand names, many acquired by purchasing other businesses. The company was purchased by United Technologies Corporation for $18.4 In 1999, Goodrich became the No. 1 supplier of landing gear and other aircraft parts.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 11, 2021

Feld Technologies worked with Allcom whenever we needed a network installed for a client. Soon after, Len called me and asked if I’d be interested in selling Feld Technologies to Sage Alerting. From 1996 to 2001, I spent a lot of time with Len in New York, where Interliant was headquartered. And I will miss him every day.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

The first project of this kind was GIMPS , a large-scale program launched in 1996 for the purpose of searching for Mersenne prime numbers , that is prime numbers of the form 2 p — 1 where P is a random integer. Prime time. These so-called volunteer computing projects dealt with scientific research.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Let’s call these cards 1996-99 and 2005-08. But VC is also a very important part of the technology ecosystem – like it or not. He believes that returns are derived by industry-changing companies and as an investor in LinkedIn, Yelp & YouTube (to name a few) I guess he’s got the credibility to say that.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 12, 2009

So is this the year that mobile computing becomes mainstream and that mobile software/service companies become a household name?    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. 

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 12, 2009

So is this the year that mobile computing becomes mainstream and that mobile software/service companies become a household name?    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. 

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 26, 2009

It was 2:00 AM and I was still sitting in ‘The Cave’ — the name we affectionately gave to the cubicles in the bowels of Wean Hall at Carnegie Mellon. But I was a student and buying machines in 1996 was still expensive. The cave was kinda like Vegas — once you enter you lose track of time.

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ConversionXL

MAY 31, 2017

What happens when evolving customer preferences for certain technologies make lead capture forms obsolete? Let’s be clear: Messaging isn’t some new, hot trend or magical technology. The first wave of messaging software arrived with ICQ (launched in 1996), followed by AIM (1997), Yahoo! A Shift in How We Communicate.

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Board Effect

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Announce your nonprofit’s role when another user uses the nonprofit’s name elsewhere on the web. The Communications and Decency Act of 1996 also offers some protection for infringement claims for nonprofits. It’s wise to do a search on your nonprofit’s name occasionally and find out who is also using your content.

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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. Akamai Technologies.

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

backed companies, went public raising less than $50 million at various times between 1971 and 1996. This condition is clearly not the result of the technology bubble or Sarbanes Oxley. which happen to all be venture?backed These companies raised just $367 million in the public markets, and they account for 470,000 U.S. jobs today.

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Austin Startup

MAY 24, 2017

We were named “Best Bossy Babes” of 2015 by The Austin Chronicle, Tribeza’s Top 10 to Watch in 2016 and we were selected by The White House to attend the United State of Women Summit in June 2016 for our work in Texas.” It was created in 1996 by 12 concerned mothers raising adolescent girls in Austin, Texas. GEN Austin Who?

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Its not what people learn in classes at MIT and Stanford that has made technology companiesspring up around them. In a technology startup, which most startups are, the foundersshould include technical people. The rulers of the technologybusiness tend to come from technology, not business. Its the same with technology.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

The macro reason: that’s the way most of the great technology companies have been built. At Andreessen Horowitz, our primary goal is to invest in the great technology franchises. Second, for folks keeping score at home, this phenomenon appears to extend beyond high-technology companies. The innovation business.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

He founded SKYLIST in 1996 from his college dorm room at Carnegie Mellon, and created UnsubCentral in 2004. If you can name drop big customers, do that too — you want your profile to look impressive. Mashable is the largest independent online news site dedicated to covering digital culture, social media and technology.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

These new cellular phone networks were built around two-way circuit switched technology designed to move voice calls without interruption. Unlike the circuit-switched cell phone networks, pager networks were built around digital packet-switched technology. Doctors and drug dealers equally found these devices handy. Video Recording.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Palm in a New Market What makes this example really interesting is this: rewind the story 4 years earlier to 1996. In 1996 no potential customer had even heard of a Personal Digital Assistant. In 1996 Palm was selling a product that allowed users to do something they couldn’t do before. It was a new product.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

My name is John Bates. I have been involved in startups since I graduated from college in 1996. There are actually a lot of tools and technologies available now to really streamline your day and as I said earlier it’s amazing. Four, technology. Four, new technologies that can help save money. Three, taxes.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

If you don’t recognize the name Danny Lewin there are two big things to know before you dive into this book. First, he was the co-founder of Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM – currently valued at $8 billion.) Akamai’s original name was Cachet Technologies. He longed to be at MIT.

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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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Austin Startup

AUGUST 27, 2019

It may surprise many people but the Walt Disney Corporation is an enthusiastic and early adopter of biometric technology. All the way back in 1996, Disney added a magnetic stripe to their park pass. At the beginning this move generated some degree of controversy (adopting new technology almost always will).

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Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

i. Pre bubble period 1991-1996 totals $28 billion. ii. Bubble period 1996-2000 totals $243.6 This is a good example of technology driven market change being accelerated by new securities regulations). And let’s remember that, at the time of these IPO’s, few if any of these companies were household names.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 22, 2009

For a clear example, see the following list of 17 companies that went public and raised $50 million or less between 1971 and 1996: These companies only raised $367 million in the public markets and they account for 470, 000 U.S. While today these companies are household names, when they went publicthey were largely unknown. jobs today.

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Kodorra

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Hotmail was developed by Jack Smith and Sabeer Bhatia in 1996. Before Apple became a household name and a multi-billion dollar tech company, they went through quite a few struggles. This company is one of the best companies that revolutionized technology. He is now a respected businessman all over the world.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You John Greathouse – Posted in: Entrepreneur , Strategic Planning. With a name like Smucker’s, it has to be good.” I would think that with a name like Smucker’s it has to be a vile disease or possibly a large, poisonous, South American leech.

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