David Teten

JULY 9, 2012

1] Matthijs Kalmijn, “INTERMARRIAGE AND HOMOGAMY: Causes, Patterns, Trends,” Annual Review of Sociology 24 (Aug 1998), 395-421. [2] Photo: The Trumbull College Potty Court gargoyle, painted as Yale College Dean Peter Salovey by the Trumbull College Class of 2008 (Photo credit: Wikipedia). [1] 2] Peter V.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

It’s been over a decade since Westin left Singapore’s shores; the hotel chain sold off its two properties – The Westin Stamford and The Westin Plaza – to Swissôtel and Raffles Hotel in 2002, after the brand’s own acquisition by Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide in 1998.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The tech ecosystem got a rude awakening in May 1998 when the U.S. Unless you were in life sciences (therapeutics, medical devices, or diagnostics), very little government regulation applied. We ignored Washington and Washington mostly ignored us (defense contractors excepted.)

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VC Cafe

JUNE 26, 2023

But two years after Google came to the fore in 1998, Google became the number one search engine and “Googling” has become synonymous with web search. In the early days of the web, companies like AltaVista, Excite, WebCrawler and others competed in becoming the search engine of choice.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

Using just two data points, the modem I had in 1986 and the modem I had in 1998, the spreadsheet predicts that I’d have a 25 megabit/second connection in 2012. In the bandwidth example, picking a point in 1986 and a point in 1998 exactly predicts the bandwidth I have in 2012. Napster arrived in June, 1999. That’s the ideal case.

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David Teten

JULY 9, 2012

1] Matthijs Kalmijn, “INTERMARRIAGE AND HOMOGAMY: Causes, Patterns, Trends,” Annual Review of Sociology 24 (Aug 1998), 395-421. [2] Photo: The Trumbull College Potty Court gargoyle, painted as Yale College Dean Peter Salovey by the Trumbull College Class of 2008 (Photo credit: Wikipedia). [1] 2] Peter V.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 24, 2012

He co-founded Archiweb in 1998, an award-winning leader among web design companies in SE Europe, and envisioned the later-to-be stock agency in early 2000. With over 12 years of experience in design and new media, Serban has proven to be a skilled executive, successfully blending creative and executive abilities.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. The inflation-adjusted data from the last bubble tells the story: In the 3-year period from 1998-2000, venture capital firms raised more than $200 billion, which represented about 0.55% of the national GDP.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The post The Story of Jeff Bezos’ $250,000 Investment into Google in 1998 appeared first on Growthink. To be filed firmly in the categories of the rich get richer and it does usually make sense to be both lucky and good, most people don’t know that Jeff Bezos was one of the early investors in Google. Yes, that Jeff Bezos.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

He mentioned that Gillette started faltering in 1998 when its leadership became distracted by non-core projects in the book. Not Time Telling, Genius of AND, Core Ideology and Preserve the Core/Stimulate Progress are related to the six concepts highlighted above.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2018

These began to appear in cars in the late 1980’s/1990’s and were required in 1998. For example, accelerometers-on-a-chip made airbags possible as they were able to detect a crash in progress. In the 1990’s computers capable of real-time analysis of wheel sensors (position and slip) made ABS (anti-lock braking systems) possible.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Mr. Lindzon continues to manage a hedge fund he started in 1998. With a unique vision for starting and successfully managing innovative companies, he is the Managing Partner of Social Leverage, a holding company that invests in early stage web businesses.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 20, 2019

percent in 1998 to 7.7 Time was short and the work laborious, meaning that the majority of jobs went to India to save on costs. The proof is in the numbers: IT increased its contribution to India’s GDP from 1.2 percent in 2017. This event prompted a massive cultural and employment shift within the country.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Towards the end of my OPT (mid 1998) is when the H1-B visa cap issue hit. In October 1998, I was excited beyond belief when I received an approval notice for an H1-B visa through my own company! I hired my TA as my first employee and paid him $12.50 The US issues 65,000 H1-B work visas every year. In a startup cash is king.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

“The median net return to VC fund investors has not been positive for any vintage year since 1998″ – [link]. Avoid Decision by Indecision – [link]. Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice – [link]. Seed Stage Valuation Guide – [link].

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 2, 2011

She was the former CTO of Cisco Systems from 1998-2000, and is on the boards of Disney and Packet Design and was a board member at Sun and FedEx for many years. Judy Estrin is a serial entrepreneur, having started seven tech companies since 1981.

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Up and Running

JUNE 21, 2021

In 1998, a few years after launching, the company got a $200,000 SBA-guaranteed loan. TRISTAR — Engineering its own success. An engineering services firm, TRISTAR is the first woman and minority-owned firm based in Indiana to offer the Department of Defense (DoD) technical support services.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

In 1998 the Department of Justice launched an anti-trust case against Microsoft. But it makes me laugh to now see so many brands advertising their “fan pages&# as they did their AOL Keywords back in the day. Plus ça change … Well, here’s a quick history primer that may change your mind: 1.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Serial entrepreneur Donovan Janus started his first company NTN Publishing in 1998, and started Exposure Manager in 2004. There is always a way to rescue time, joy and excitement from the quicksand. Freelancing can be everything you imagined once you cut the intangible costs.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 9, 2011

Shechtman, who was born in Tel Aviv in 1941, had previously been awarded the Israel Prize in Physics in 1998 and the Wolf Prize in Physics a year later. He discovered the Icosahedral Phase of crystals aluminum transition metal alloys in 1982. Shechtman is the tenth Israeli to win the Nobel Prize.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 20, 2019

In 1998–1999, when I was running my first company, one of my investors, the late Don Jones , came by to visit us at the office. Don was totally a people person and just an all around great person to talk to. In fact, I can hear the intonation of his voice in my head as I type this.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 4, 2010

The irony is that in a retrospective paper ten years later (1998), [ 2 ] the authors backed off from their claims. In 1998 Goto.com , a small startup (later Overture, now part of Yahoo ! ), created the pay per click search engine and advertising system and demo’d it at the TED conference. The only problem is that it’s simply not true.

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Up and Running

APRIL 9, 2019

It was also in a SWOT session that we realized we needed to make our product downloadable on the web (back in 1998, when we were among the first). It was in one of these sessions that somebody suggested that I should change my focus a bit and deal more with the large picture than the specific code.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

It was 1998 and the internet wasn’t exactly readily available. It sounds simple now, but in 1998 it was unheard of. Did the Canucks win their last hockey game? What were the election results? What was happening? That’s when I knew I wanted to connect people to the stories they care about, no matter where they are.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 17, 2010

I started a business newspaper at my college and my first article back in February 1998 was on AOL. I didn’t have any visibility into what a career in startups would look like, how to get started, etc—just wasn’t even looking for them. Yet, I was very interested in the tech industry. I even recruited Kara Swisher to come speak at Fordham.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 7, 2013

These firms have had a significant impact on growth over the last 20 years through the bubbles and crashes they create – e.g. the Long-Term Capital Management crash of 1998, the Dot-Com crash of 2000, and the housing meltdown of 2008.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 19, 2014

Photovoltaic cost per watt continues to drop (from $12 per watt in 1998 to $5 per watt in 2013, 14% annually over the long term) at the same time that we’re seeing new innovations in grid-scale energy storage. That’s because we’ll soon reach an era of cheap electricity.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

By comparison, Brian Morgan, who founded Adventure Life , from Missoula, Montana, started in 1998 with 16 employees and a decade later was earning $11 million after an initial investment capital of $3,000 spent on a laptop and two brochures. His startup focused on providing travel to exotic destinations around the world.

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

Back in 1998 when Times New Roman was still widely used on the web, my then boss made sure we always designed our web sites with Arial, as she hated the look of serif fonts on the web. Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). 1998 , Bernard et al., 1998 , Tullis et al., Posted on February 17, 2008 by Alex Poole. 1995 , Reynolds, 1979 ).

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Brandanew

JULY 15, 2015

I bought MichaelHyatt.com in 1998. The problem was eventually fixed, but it hurt his attendance in the meantime. Few things in life are truly stable, but some things are more stable than others. It’s been through a lot of iterations, but it’s always been mine. Ownership provides stability because you set the rules. The Platform Effect.

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The Startup Lawyer

OCTOBER 26, 2010

She co-founded an aircraft scheduling software company in 1998 that ended in a profitable exit. Gabriella is co-founder and managing partner of Tech Wildcatters, a Dallas-based seed accelerator. Previously, she was with HP Growth Partners, an early stage venture fund in Dallas.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Back in like 1998? And bouncing messages not from your friends? How is a person on the outside supposed to know what your privacy settings are? Remember when people used to say that their e-mails got lost? Now, we have a reasonable assurance that if I e-mail someone, they got it. With Facebook e-mails, we’re really not sure.

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deal architect

AUGUST 7, 2019

I don't mean to pick on NetSuite but it is one of the oldest cloud apps vendors - born as it was in 1998. Over 21 years, you would think it would have a fuller global footprint. Especially since it.

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Jeff Hilimire

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

1998 – Raj and I (with Sasha and Gavin) at UNC-Charlotte. He’s still one of my favorite people in the world, and we routinely get together to ask each other for business advice. Raj, thanks for everything. Love you, buddy. Oh, and we used to be such babies :).

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 21, 2025

One helpful bit of context is that until very recently, I hadnt been to the dentist since 1998. You might be wondering what took me so long. Im 45 and most people have them out between the ages of 17 and 25. Heres what happened I never had a cavity growing up. and I got a lot of love an affection from my parents because of it.

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Board Effect

MARCH 15, 2022

Liam Donaldson was the first one to come up with the idea of clinical governance around 1998. That’s still a worthy goal for today’s healthcare providers. What Does Good Governance for Hospitals Look Like? Another attempt to clarify clinical governance was “ A First Class Service: Quality in the New NHS.”

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 18, 2011

Angel investors like Andy Bechtolsheim - who put $100,000 into Google in September 1998, a position now worth more than $1.7 But what about those with 1-2 degrees of separation who also benefit immensely? Or someone like Mark Cuban, who rode the Internet wave perfectly, to the tune of selling Broadcast.com to Yahoo for $5.9

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