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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million. By the end of 2011 the Internet population was estimated at 2.3 Internet usage a decade ago was less than 1 hour per day and was restricted to narrowband communications.

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

We’re now in the second Internet bubble. Rather they understood that a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. Rules for building a company in 2011 are different than they were in 2008 or 1998. Carpe Diem. The New Exits.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I had a lot of fun learning what the internet could do for me. In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering. It was a little bit geeky, but I really enjoyed it. Where am I today?

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10 CEOs Who Made Huge Mistakes

Up and Running

While Microsoft introduced MSN Search in 1998, the site purely used an existing search engine, Inktomi, to gather results. In this internet age, your words can come back to haunt you—so think before you speak. There’s no denying that Bill Gates is a visionary, founding Microsoft in 1975 and monopolizing the tech industry for decades.

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The Lean Entrepreneur is here

Startup Lessons Learned

Telecom O2 learning to move at the speed of the internet 500 Startups and their accelerated feedback loops on what works, and what doesn't work in early-stage investing. The Lean Entrepreneur offers new thinking, tools and activities that help organizations identify and act upon business model challenges in a waste-eliminating manner.

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

rob.by

I’m a tech co-founder in internet startups and after you’ve co-founded a few ventures you definitely have a much more of an appreciation for what’s required to make a startup work at the technical level – it’s certainly not just a software engineer. Friday, August 20, 2010 Stephanie says: I can testify to this!

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Instead of Asking AI Companies to ‘SLOW DOWN’ We Should Encourage Them to Move Even Faster

Hunter Walker

Fortunately there’s some case law here which might help, and we only have to go back to earlier Internet days and the concept of safe harbor. The DMCA allowed for billions of people globally to express themselves online, prompted new business model experiments, and created guardrails for any entrepreneur to stay legal.