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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

might have been a lot less differentiated. But Friendster’s computer systems couldn’t keep up with the explosive growth (reportedly due to the complexity of the security model set up to control connections, privacy and authenticity of users) so MySpace was hot on the heels and swept up the market in a very rapid ascent.

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

alexpoole.info

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. In 2003 as part of my master’s degree I reviewed over 50 empirical studies in typography and found a definitive answer. Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ).

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How to Get World Class Experts to Support Your Company

David Teten

Like many established finance & media companies, GLG knows that the tech startup sector is a growing part of the economy. That could be a VC trying to diligence a space they don’t know well or a Fortune 500 company trying to expand into a new market. Again, our value can really be differentiated in its scale and depth.

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Bad Boys and the Fab Five: Business Lessons from Basketball History

Up and Running

You also may remember that the main narrative of the ’90s was that Michael Jordan, arguably the NBA’s greatest player ever, took the Chicago Bulls to six championship titles between 1991 and 1998. It also presents an opportunity to differentiate your product or service in a competitive market.

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When to Use Tabbed Navigation and How to Optimize It

ConversionXL

As Luke Wroblewski of Google chronicled years ago, Amazon really pioneered this trend… Luke Wroblewski , Google : “In 1998, the site had two top-level categories: books and music. This is in part due to design prototypes. via LukeW). Here’s a look at how Amazon used tabbed navigation in the earlier days… Image Source.

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Netflix vs. Blockbuster and bad profits (reflections from my Bazaarvoice days)

Austin Startup

Second, when Brant and I founded Bazaarvoice there were only three retailers in the US with customer reviews. Then in 1998 along came a tiny company in Los Gatos, California named Netflix. The first is explained articulately in the book “ The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail ” by Clayton Christensen.

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On Going Public: SPACs, Direct Listings, Public Offerings, and Access to Private Markets

Ben's Blog

The value of mutual fund investments in private tech companies was estimated at just north of $7 billion in 2016, or about.05% Before offering some suggestions about how we might improve capital formation, I’d like to review the current state of the IPO market. 1990-1998 13.3% 05% of total US mutual fund assets. 1999-2000 51.6%

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