ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

The concept of “economic moats” came from a 1999 Fortune article by Warren Buffett: The key to investing is [.] An effective moat doesn’t require Amazon’s distribution network or Microsoft’s monopolistic software strategy. determining the competitive advantage of any given company and, above all, the durability of that advantage.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 4, 2012

Launched in December 2011, these pillow covers come with names like Louie the Lion, Izzy the Unicorn, Barry the Bear, Kit the Cat, Max the Dog, and Donn the Dinosaur, in the name of helping a child to sleep. As a child growing up, Sharone would attend trade shows with his father, which sparked his interest in the product industry.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

want to sidestep the argument about whether or not it's good to be " stealth " or not, and work with the assumption that if you've purchased the domain name, you're going to put up some sort of website. APIs provide a way to “federate&# web services from a single website to a distributed network of 3rd party sites.

Technology 191

Technology Product San Francisco CTO Hire 191

Venture Chronicles

SEPTEMBER 11, 2010

Twitter provides publishers with several key advantages over RSS, namely the ability to control brand and force traffic back to their monetized site. A month before Steve published his post I wrote a post that remains one of the most popular pieces I have written to date.

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

His name was Mark Benioff (another former Oracle Executive) and in 1999 he had the pleasure to introduce the business world the first CRM in Cloud. Organizing multi-channel campaigns, segmenting audiences, and distributing personalized content, suddenly appeared to be easy, like never before. Eloqua was the proof of that.

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Customer Marketing Artificial Inteligence Clickthrough 92

Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

My generation, dubbed Generation X after a popular novel of the same name , was typically characterized as being aimless and cynical, prematurely embittered by dead-end jobs, the generally awful state of the world, and an overall sense of cultural exhaustion. It was 1999. The world was also in the midst of the AIDS epidemic.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Internet Networking Salary 69

Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

After Mosaic, even Marc and his co-founder Jim Clark originally planned a business for video distribution to run on top of the proprietary Information Super Highway , not the Internet. After AOL acquired Netscape in 1999, the browser wars ended and browser innovation stopped for many years. I am naming your car ‘La Bamba.’”

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CTO Internet Illinois Cofounder 74

YoungUpstarts

JULY 25, 2018

Brian is now leading a mission critical distribution arm and his direct reports are engaged and energized. Then there’s Ruth, a young lady with a solid, trustworthy name and a spectacularly vivid imagination. The project rapidly got back on schedule and turned out to be quite strategic for the future of his company.

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Leadership Database Audio Distribution 100

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Messages can be classified as public or private; named or anonymous. Provides electronic book services for content publishers; services include digital scanning and conversion, distribution to leading e-book retailers, monetization and royalty management. Founded in 1999 in Austin, Texas. Orchard for e-Books”.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

After thinking about how much I enjoyed helping her business grow and learning all I could about business structure, marketing, SEO and social media to name a few, I decided to take these new skills and help other small business owners. First, we built relationships with 10+ colleges, getting distribution rights to their students.

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Entrepreneur Ireland LLC Kansas 78

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

At the same time, the company contained its operating costs and came out of the recession stronger, bigger, and more profitable than it had been in 1999. can introduce a ‘fighter brand,’ a lower-priced version of the premium offering sold under a different name and backed by minimal advertising.” Premium-brand market leaders [.]

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Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Naming a Business. Before Roving Software could receive its first round of financing from professional investors, in early 1999, he had to put all the stock arrangements in writing. CDW your 1-stop resource for configuration, activation & distribution. Tools & Research. Newsletters. Subscriptions. Advisor. ); STARTUP.

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Fractional CTO Equity Iowa Technical Cofounder 40

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

First Name. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. that did so in 1999 and 2000, according to an analysis for The Wall Street Journal by Jay R. Why use your real name? Confirm Email.

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Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

In 1999, David Weinberger, a technologist and co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto , wrote, “Personalization: the automatic tailoring of sites and messages to the individuals viewing them so that we can feel that somewhere there’s a piece of software that loves us for who we are.” There are tons of possibilities.

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Web Software Review Jordan Technical Review 48

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

In 1999, record valuations coexisted with record IPOs and shareholder liquidity. If 1999 was a wet (read liquid) bubble, 2015 was a particularly dry one. Back in 1999, if a company raised $30mm before an IPO, that was considered a large historic raise. 2015 was the exact opposite. Take as much market share as you can.

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IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

Diego Basch

JUNE 2, 2012

One fine day in June of 1999 I was sitting at my desk, writing code, in the zone. My name is Diego, so my odds of being interested in a Spanish-language portal were relatively high. In 1999 it was common practice to print the employee roster every week (including phone extensions) and distribute it to everyone.

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IPO Argentina Stock .Net 62

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

But back in 1999, a then very young Netflix based in Los Gatos with less than 20 employees, was on the edge of going bust. Legal wasn't used to distribution via IP enabled devices. Realize also that the Creative Suite is, as the name implies, a suite of integration applications – 15 major ones and many smaller utilities.

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Product Technical Review Software Review Engineer 60

ConversionXL

JANUARY 11, 2013

Appsumo is an daily deals website for the coolest web apps and other digitally distributed goods. This is what they say about themselves: We are an distribution channel for companies that help entrepreneurs start, grow, optimize, and scale their businesses. But, the name of the game is your target audience. Borderless world.

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Campaign Estonia Social Media Viral 95

Professor VC

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Luckily, Google was one of the 150 and did ultimately return the fund assuming the LP was smart enough to hold the stock after distribution. Another seed investment where something similar happened was the 2010 iControl Networks merger with uControl (yeah not a lot of creativity in naming.).

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Merger LP IPO Redemption 28

Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

1999 : Provisions that prohibit a bank holding company from owning other financial companies were repealed on November 12, 1999, by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. And let’s remember that, at the time of these IPO’s, few if any of these companies were household names. cents or 6.25 cents or 6.25

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Equity Securities and Exchange Commission IPO Marketing 31

Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

After the Dot Com crash of 1999, most yet-to-be-disrupted big firms got back to business. Try going for a week without using a computer, smartphone, search engine, ecommerce, social media account, SMS, private message or email, to name a few services. But when the web 2.0 It’s nigh on impossible. Free Market Capitalism.

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Government Algorithm Artificial Inteligence Social Media 79

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. It became a huge kerfuffle with many VC partners writing to thank me for the post, which exposed those that gave their industry a bad name. And then I was mortified – Valleywag figured out which firm had treated me the worst and published their names. Folksonomy.

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Venture Capital Term Sheet San Diego Viral 274