Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

We’re now in the second Internet bubble. Rules for building a company in 2011 are different than they were in 2008 or 1998. At the same time, acquisition opportunities will expand as large existing companies, unable to keep up with the pace of innovation in these emerging Internet markets, will “innovate&# by buying startups.

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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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Technical Review Valuation Venture Capital Database 78

Brandanew

JULY 15, 2015

While the brand/ products had found organic mentions all over the Internet and who’s who media of their particular industry, the brand itself had little presence on social media or Google. These are people born after the 1980s who grew into the online world of the Internet, social technologies, computers. The Platform Effect.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet. I looked at the future predictions for “modem speed” (as I called it back then, today we’d called it internet connection speed or bandwidth). Gene Kim laughed at my prediction. Napster arrived in June, 1999.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Bandwidth Software Review 182

The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Earlier this week Mary Meeker published an update to her by now legendary internet trends presentation and Nielsen published their Social Media Report 2012. Microsoft’s market share of operating systems is 35%, down from 96% in 1998-2005. Taken together they tell us clearly that mobile and social are still growing very fast.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Mr. Lindzon continues to manage a hedge fund he started in 1998. Mr. Lindzon’s new media and internet business investments also include: Limos.com, Blogtalkradio.com, Buddy Media, Ticketfly, Assistly, Bit.ly Michael was the lead research analyst for the IPOs of Internet companies like UUNET, Yahoo!,

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL. It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. AOL was closed, the Internet was open. And then came AOL.

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Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

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. Leverage the power of the Internet to reach a global audience.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2020

She began training on the Internet in 1998 and began the first television-like broadcasting in 2002, launching her own TV channel – www.hvacchannel.tv. : Simple Rules for Sustainable Business Growth ” and four other award-winning books. The post Do You Have The Mercedes Benz Syndrome? appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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.Net Channel Revenue Internet 264

Transformify

APRIL 11, 2017

A law was passed in 1998 that stated that companies must remove any material off of the web that someone claims rightfully belongs to them. The site is so popular in fact that it accounts for 4% of all internet traffic during peak evening times in the USA. In fact, quite the opposite.

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Internet Web Social Media Video 58

Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

And in January I saw that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. I bought the Diamond Rio mp3 player in 1998. Last weekend I caught Mashable announcing that Ebook Sales Surpass Hardcover in the U.S. In both cases what surprises me is not that it happened, but how long it took.

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Startup Forecast Angel Investor Software 180

Andrew Payne

JULY 28, 2014

The Court of Justice of the EU ruled Google had to remove search results linking to a 1998 newspaper article about the foreclosure of his home (due to unpaid debts he later paid). The Internet never forgets; plan accordingly. Earlier this year, Mario Costeja-González won the right to be forgotten.

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Technical Review Search Engineer Internet 49

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

In the last decade the world of internet marketing, like the internet itself, has become dominated by multimedia. For a good eight years from 1998 to 2006 all my online business projects were text based, with some images thrown. It’s a different world to how I first started out online.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion. Here’s my take: 1. Our current fund was raised in 2008/09.]

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LP Technical Review Early Stage Silicon Valley 311

Hunter Walker

MARCH 16, 2023

Our professors were literally rewriting the case studies in real time and my participation in the very first Internet Marketing class the GSB ever offered is a form of carbon dating that conclusively proves my old age. As became clear quickly: the Stanford Business School Class of 1998 had founded the good Internet 1.0

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Stock IPO Database Internet 77

YoungUpstarts

JULY 11, 2018

3G emerged from the growth of the internet during the 1990s , which created a demand for mobile phones that could support both SMS texting and multimedia MMS transmission of image, sound and video files. The introduction of 3G in between 1998 and 2003 brought 200 Kbps speeds, four times faster than 3G. 3G: Opening Up the App Market.

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South Korea China SMS Germany 133

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. It was also at the peak of the Internet bubble and she spent a lot of time working with various business units to think more long term and more synergistically.

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CTO Hire Startup Algorithm Leadership 118

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. Soon every other VC was using the phrase to justify the reckless “get big fast” strategies of dot-com startups during the Internet Bubble. The only problem is that it’s simply not true. By then it was too late.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 5, 2023

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. Ironically, both positions are outputs of acknowledging the incredible early power and promise of the tipping point we’ve reached, but neither incorporate the ambiguity.

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Artificial Inteligence Framework Aggregator China 66

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 Or someone like Mark Cuban, who rode the Internet wave perfectly, to the tune of selling Broadcast.com to Yahoo for $5.9 billion in Yahoo stock.

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Russia Software Review Angel Investor Stock 76

Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

Let us look at examples of the last two major computing cycles (prior to the Internet). As you can see, we are poised to hit the major adoption wave for the Internet technology platform over the next 8 years. The internet is working. A lot has changed since the internet bubble eleven years ago. Today, there are over 2.1

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Technical Review Software Review Valuation Internet 60

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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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 8, 2016

In 1998, when I started ending up with lots of shares in public Internet companies, I came up with a formulaic approach for any public equities that are distributed to me (either from our funds or other VC funds). A cliche I’ve heard many times is “Wall Street Always Wins.”

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Flash Equity Stock Finance 70

K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Towards the end of my OPT (mid 1998) is when the H1-B visa cap issue hit. There were a sum total of three or four “venture capital” funds in Pittsburgh at the time, and none of them had done much with this new fangled thing called the Internet. I hired my TA as my first employee and paid him $12.50

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

In the last decade the world of internet marketing, like the internet itself, has become dominated by multimedia. For a good eight years from 1998 to 2006 all my online business projects were text based, with some images thrown. It’s a different world to how I first started out online.

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Video Internet Entrepreneur Marketing 42

YoungUpstarts

JULY 5, 2016

As time has drug on, the Internet and technology have brought about new payment solutions, which make it possible to send money anywhere easily and more affordably. Although PayPal was introduced in 1998, consumers have been buying and selling online since 1994. Online Shopping.

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United States Mobile Internet Naming 100

Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

Yesterday I read No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet. They entered, but didn’t win, the MIT $50K competition in 1998. Akamai was an amazing pre-Internet bubble story. As a judge for the MIT $50k until 1996, there were always a lot of VCs hanging around.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2018

That’s a big fundamental change seeing that since the start of the internet and sites like broadcast.com and YouTube, we, the users, have always had a public text chat. I started my first business back in 1998 when I was 17; Skipworth was my first digital record label. What other startups have team members been involved with?

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 25, 2019

Innovation is promoted in various fields, like Internet, cybersecurity, and computer vision. Following 1998, the economy was completely restructured. Startups companies, as far as they are concerned, are able to experience consistent growth through 2019, raising capital in billions. On the one hand, the population is educated.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 24, 2022

For example, in 1998, Prof. Paul Krugman, a Noble Prize winning economist, predicted that by 2005 it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy will be no greater than the Fax machine… Source: (you can check the authenticity on Snopes).

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France Spain Stock Cofounder 89

Mucker Lab

MAY 20, 2013

1998 – “There is no room for personal productivity software startups – Microsoft will eat your lunch when you get big enough and Symantec will take the crumbs”. Consumer products and services are hit driven, it’s really hard to build a scalable consumer company”.

Widget 76

Widget Sales Cycle Social Network Government 76

Up and Running

APRIL 27, 2015

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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Technical Review Mexico Cofounder Angel Investor 60

The Next Web

JANUARY 18, 2013

Yoyodyne was acquired by Yahoo in 1998. Information is there online, to any one of the billion people who has access to the Internet. But it was at Yoyodyne where Godin popularized the principle of so-called permission marketing , and went on to author many books on the subject. “They used to be the same thing.

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Video America Security Internet 145

The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Andrew Chen responded to that with a thoughtful post about how the ‘funding goalposts continue to move’ Here’s the money quote: It’s been widely noted that investing milestones have evolved quickly over time: In 1998, you’d raise $5M Series A with an idea and not much else.

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San Francisco Product Open Source Distribution 105

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 14, 2016

However, thanks to the fact evolution of Internet, the threat of this virus is now mitigated. Similar to the Vienna virus which shocked computers in 1998, this virus comes into action after you have executed the file. In modern computers, this virus could appear on the “Master Boot Record”. Web Scripting Virus. Direct Action Virus.

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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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Technical Review Software Review Design Web 85

Mucker Lab

MAY 21, 2013

1998 – “There is no room for personal productivity software startups – Microsoft will eat your lunch when you get big enough and Symantec will take the crumbs”. Consumer products and services are hit driven, it’s really hard to build a scalable consumer company”.

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Widget Sales Cycle Social Network Government 60