Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

Lately, everybody seems to be talking about a new technology bubble. In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. If publicly traded technology companies are not at bubble-like prices, then private technology valuations aren’t either because they are roughly equivalent.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

It even penciled for Google in 1998, and it still worked well enough that Facebook chose to establish its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, in 2004. One of the reasons it still made sense for a company like Facebook to hire locally in 2004 was that immature technology made effective remote work challenging. Ditto for Apple.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 19, 2014

Here’s why: Except for early adopters of technology and diehard environmental customers, most people aren’t buying a fuel type, they’re buying transportation. This exponential reduction in battery cost and improvement in battery technology, more than anything else, will affect both the cost and range of electric cars.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

As the former CEO of a professional expert network , I’m a firm believer in the value of speedy access to relevant experts. I was excited to see that GLG (formerly Gerson Lehrman Group), the industry leader, is now offering a professional network service geared to the needs of the startup community: GLG Share.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2018

The new regulations replace the 1995 EU Data Protection Directive and the 1998 UK Data Protection Act. This includes e-commerce websites that ship internationally, content news sites accessible in the European Union, social networks like Facebook and Instagram, and more.

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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. It began as a network that brought physical copies of newspapers to travelers abroad. What were the election results? What was happening? I love helping people reach their swimming goals!

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

The Network May Not be as Valuable as It Seems. Even critics of business school will generally acknowledge that attending a top-tier school helps the student build a strong personal network. But how strong is that business school network actually useful for entrepreneurs? Networks are both safety nets and trampolines.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

The Network May Not be as Valuable as It Seems. Even critics of business school will generally acknowledge that attending a top-tier school helps the student build a strong personal network. But how strong is that business school network actually useful for entrepreneurs? Networks are both safety nets and trampolines.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

“Israel is known for its strong capabilities in technology and science. The joint OpenMarket-MX Telecom business will provide a hosted platform to extend mobile payment and messaging capabilities through an integrated network and product portfolio. and was founded in 1998. Net-Aye is a subsidiary of Bar-Tec Ltd.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

This next wave of web startups; Social Networks and Mobile Applications, now reached 100’s of millions of customers. Rules for building a company in 2011 are different than they were in 2008 or 1998. Show and talk at conferences, be on lots of blogs, use social networks and build a brand. The New Exits. Lessons Learned.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 23, 2022

John Jantsch (00:00): This episode of the duct tape marketing podcast is brought to you by the Gain Grow, Retain podcast, hosted by Jeff Brunsbach and Jay Nathan brought to you by the HubSpot podcast network gain grow retain is built to inspire SAS and technology leaders who are facing day to day. And I said, who could I learn from?

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Diego Basch

MARCH 4, 2011

I’m doing my masters at Carnegie Mellon, enjoying the most awesome network connection. I think I can create one that’s better, and it becomes my personal summer project in 1998. Are we killing the network? It never ends, because technology changes fast. I download my first mp3, a novelty back then.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

in 1998 and eventually became Yahoo!Store. In Richard Hendrick’s own words: “Pied Piper is a multi-platform technology based on a proprietary universal compression algorithm that has consistently fielded high Weisman Scores™ that are not merely competitive, but approach the theoretical limit of lossless compression.”

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

The theory is that with the advent of the cloud in the digital age, small businesses can leverage a suite of services from a technology vendor to manage all aspects of their work – from payments to record-keeping to marketing to customer communications. There are nearly 1 million physicians in the US. Athenahealth's Culture.

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Tim Keane

MAY 27, 2010

  Today, we have an angel investor network, the Golden Angels, as well as an entrepreneurship center to spread the entrepreneurial word across campus.   He founded RightNow Technologies in a spare bedroom in his home in 14 years ago - by bootstrapping. We should all be concerned about where this is all going.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2018

Presenting in the Entertainment and Content Technology category at 3:30 pm on Sunday, March 11, Sceenic will talk about its Watch Together SaaS solution, which enables media companies to create interactive co-viewing experiences for dispersed viewers. We have been also working with our engineering team since SayYeah in 2015.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

Whilst the average tech entrepreneur may lack some of the more business relationship, networking, and sales/marketing skills – they still need to have an entrepreneurial mindset, understand financial models, market factors, and how the business ultimately makes money. Friday, August 20, 2010 Stephanie says: I can testify to this!

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

networking. technology. Implementing and/or improving systems and technology. Social networking applications (SNAs). Networking. Find out why » ERE is in the process of upgrading our website and technology across the board. Browse Articles by Tag. advertising. assessments. coldcalling. economicdata.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Lee put his hypothesis to test in 1998 via Peanut Butter & Co , a small retail shop which has turned into a multiplatform success. sandwich shop in 1998, and the menu consisted entirely of peanut butter sandwiches, snacks, and desserts. Q: The business started in 1998. One which still goes best with a glass of milk.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 20, 2014

Marc Andreessen and Eric Ries were tweeting how many of 1998-2000 web startup ideas failed but are succeeding now. A technology advantage? A network effect? Big market but wrong time vs right time. What have you done/learned thus far that puts you in an advantage position against competitors or incumbents?

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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”. 2002 – “the social network fad is over”. 2002 – “Information Technology is not a competitive advantage”. (Internet). Evernote, Dropbox). Myspace, Facebook).

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VC Cafe

MARCH 15, 2011

Israeli Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor Shalom Simhon met Chinese Commerce Minister Chen Deming vowing to to expand economic, trade and technological cooperation between the two countries. Chen also met Israeli President Shimon Peres who highlighted the key role of technology innovation in economic development of Israel and China.

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 3, 2004

When I first met Andrew in late 1998, he had just finished his Stanford Ph.d This was 1998 and Flashbase was a true predecessor to Intuit’s Quickbase. From a technology perspective, we are seeing an evolution in the way network client software is written. program in EE from Stanford with other well-known classmates.

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 3, 2004

When I first met Andrew in late 1998, he had just finished his Stanford Ph.d This was 1998 and Flashbase was a true predecessor to Intuit’s Quickbase. From a technology perspective, we are seeing an evolution in the way network client software is written. program in EE from Stanford with other well-known classmates.

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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”. 2002 – “the social network fad is over”. 2002 – “Information Technology is not a competitive advantage”. (Internet). Evernote, Dropbox). Myspace, Facebook).

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Q1: What caused you to want to get into working with mobile telephone platforms in 1998? This segment of the population consumes large amount of data so their challenges are more around network speeds and tiered data-plans and handset capabilities (that is, what they can do with the handset). Details on Innotech can be found here.

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SiliconHills

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Austin-based Silicon Labs announced Monday it has acquired Telegesis, a privately-held supplier of wireless mesh networking modules, for approximately $20 million. Telegesis, founded in 1998 in High Wycombe, England, outside of London, uses Silicon Labs’ ZigBee technology in its smart meters, USB adapters and other products.

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Seth makes extensive use of social networking tools, and web videos to maximize the impact of his training. His unique style and personal touch has helped him develop a large worldwide audience consisting of accountants, bookkeepers, and small business owners, as well as general consultants and technology enthusiasts. Show Quotes .

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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. Messenger (1998), and MSN/Windows Live Messenger (1999). billion MAUs for the top four social networks. A Shift in How We Communicate.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2016

[To listen to a recording of the webinar, Click Here ] On this recorded webinar, the Growthink Innovation Series turns to the transformative world of financial technology. Crowdfunder is the equity crowdfunding leader for sourcing and funding high-growth ventures with a network of over 130,000 entrepreneurs and investors.

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thebarefootvc

APRIL 9, 2018

From students studying cryptoeconomics to faculty guiding independent studies on the new asset class, it is clear that the oldest university in the United States is on board with the newest technology wave. Many asked about the potential for re-centralization of technology and power, similar to what we saw with Facebook and Google.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

There seem to be two schools of thought on how to predict the future of information technology: looking at software or looking at hardware. A big technical challenge we studied was piping streaming video over networks. Smaller equals faster in processor technology.). I’m going to start by going back to 1994.

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Board Effect

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 offers certain immunities for internet service providers that may lend some form of protection from allegations of copyright infringement, tortious conduct, or defamation. The risks of using social media platforms to promote nonprofit information are prevalent because of technological advances.

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 21, 2014

In 1998, Yom Kippur fell on September 30th. Terry Kawaja did a wonderful analysis of advertising technology company valuations and the positive impact on multiples that exist for SaaS and programmatic companies (such as our portfolio companies tracx and DataXu , respectively) as compared to non-recurring advertising technology companies.

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Seeing Both Sides

MARCH 2, 2011

I had the pleasure of teaching a new case at HBS yesterday on foursquare that I co-authored with Professors Tom Eisenmann and Mikolaj Piskorski as part of Tom's new course "Launching Technology Ventures". Advertising isn't cool."). Vision/Becoming a platform. What does the company want to be when it "grows up"?

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Up and Running

JULY 29, 2015

This grant was launched in 1998 by Womennet to help entrepreneurs succeed. This site also functions like a social network, where you can interact with investors and build relationships through a secure channel. See Also Small Business Grants: The Facts and the Fiction. Amber Grant for Women. It’s a simple application process.

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Brandanew

JULY 15, 2015

These are people born after the 1980s who grew into the online world of the Internet, social technologies, computers. And worse: the network itself may die (remember Google owned Orkut?). I bought MichaelHyatt.com in 1998. You don’t want to be seen and network with the one not updated since 1979.

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