Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

At the same time, I was beginning to realize that the Internet was fundamentally different from closed, proprietary online services like CompuServe or eWorld. And you didn’t need to get permission from the government or corporate gatekeepers. It was the central node of the consumer Internet industry. It was 1999.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 8, 2018

In the mid 1990s I knew that the internet was a game-changing technology. In 1997 I founded an internet company named Perficient, and it went public in 1999. The dawn of the internet age was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for a technology entrepreneur. The second one (blockchain) is going to decentralize everything.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 21, 2013

There are dozens of helpful websites on the Internet that will guide your early entrepreneurial steps in the process. He has over 30 years of experience in executive management, corporate governance and business development. We have hit the bottom of the current business cycle, and everything should be up from here.

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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Try these statistics on for size, from 1999 to today Asia’s share of the world’s Initial Public Offerings grew from 12% to 66%. IPO by far this year will be the government ward General Motors. Pursue Global Markets. 7 Companies in China have raised more than $1 billion in an IPO this year. In the U.S.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Emerging market governments often implement measures that support industrialization and prompt economic expansion. Fintech businesses have been thriving in Brazil in the last 10 years as more and more people have access to internet and cheap smartphones that give them access to mobile payment apps.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Fortunately, the rise of the Internet, and specifically Internet marketplace models, act as accelerants to the productivity benefits of the division of labour AND comparative advantage by reducing information asymmetry and increasing the likelihood of a perfect match with regard to the exchange of goods or services.

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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. On a “dream big” kind of note, I would love to meet Mark Cuban as he was one of the people responsible for broadcast.com back in 1999 when it sold to Yahoo. In the U.K.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 20, 2013

1999 – “The search engine game is over”. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”. Consumer products and services are hit driven, it’s really hard to build a scalable consumer company”. Evernote, Dropbox). Everything). 2003 – “The browser war is over, Microsoft has won”.

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Agile VC

MAY 7, 2014

But there’s a ton of interesting bits on everything from growth rates to corporate governance, so I will still do a deep analysis though will serialize this into a couple posts. I’ll first start with a brief background on the genesis of Alibaba and a top level sizing of the company and its underlying businesses. ==.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

2011 was finally the year when the media spotlight shone on how under-represented women are in almost all power structures in business, government, technology and media – and how crucial it is that we leverage the leadership skill set that they bring to the table to tackle the problems facing the world today.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2011

There are many articles on the Internet and in periodicals that will counsel you on “ when to take the plunge ”, but your overall effort will be guided by adhering to the “5 P’s” delineated below: Passion. He has over 30 years of experience in executive management, corporate governance and business development.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 21, 2013

1999 – “The search engine game is over”. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”. Consumer products and services are hit driven, it’s really hard to build a scalable consumer company”. Evernote, Dropbox). Everything). 2003 – “The browser war is over, Microsoft has won”.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 3, 2012

In two years she has hired eight full-time employees, secured lucrative government contracts, and is able to support seven households besides her own in Amman. Since its organization in 1999, SHARE has become the biggest microfinance institution in India, and its success has prompted other banks to begin their own microfinance programs.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

Internet 1.0. It was difficult to conceive how important the internet would be to our lives back in the mid 1990s. After the Dot Com crash of 1999, most yet-to-be-disrupted big firms got back to business. How could anyone ever lie again if we could just check it out on the internet and find out the truth!

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

The same thing happened to many Internet stocks. 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.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

A few of the detailed case studies include: Tech legend Bill Gross building an MVP in 1999 to test demand for online car sales, which grew into CarsDirect.com. 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.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

The Wall Street Journal is phasing out support of the Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser. Internet Explorer. In the 1990s Internet boom, easy money helped founders maintain more control early in a companys evolution, but founder CEOs without voting control often got replaced by a professional manager ahead of an IPO.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I put a development team together, received a grant from the Canadian government, and worked with the University of Victoria to develop an innovative ad network Artificial Intelligence system, and now we’re in business changing the landscape of advertising forever. My oldest son, Coby Joshua, was born with Down syndrome in 1999.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 14, 2011

Who would have thought that Apple would be the world biggest music retailer today back in 1999? Is encoding enough or do we have to de-couple data warehouses and the Internet? We need to see evidence in market of governments and global representative bodies taking punitive measures against security breaches and hacking.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 14, 2011

Who would have thought that Apple would be the world biggest music retailer today back in 1999? Is encoding enough or do we have to de-couple data warehouses and the Internet? We need to see evidence in market of governments and global representative bodies taking punitive measures against security breaches and hacking.

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Austin Startup

MAY 14, 2019

People can pay for a membership to work from a shared workspace which often includes internet, coffee, desks, and other amenities. - Coworking is a recent phenomenon which was aided by the proliferation of the internet and the associated capability for people to work remotely. How did coworking start? may come from your decision.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And then medium-size businesses start to use it, and then large businesses start to use it, and then eventually the government starts to use it. And now all of a sudden you have got this global market of all these early adopters that have smartphones connected to the Internet, and they can just pick up their things and run with them.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 9, 2013

1999) – 300,000+ customers. Thing is, the novelty of “Ooooh, Internet” has been wearing off for quite some time, and as more and more people do their shopping online , the function of just having what someone wants isn’t going to be enough. 1998) – 120,000+ customers. GetResponse (est.

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Seeing Both Sides

MAY 26, 2009

  Having an NVCA chairman steeped in that world, at a time when the US Government is looking to perform a top-down re-engineering of the health care system, which is projected to make up 20% of GDP in a few years, is good timing indeed. (4) 4)      Boston.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

This has been especially true for angels or seed investors as there is a new thesis that less capital is needed to start Internet companies so more money is being spent at this phase of the funding lifecycle. While not 1999 all over again but I am observing first-hand the signs of funding frenzy. We’d have to hit 2.5%

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Most of the informed people I know are telling me that the sharp sell-off has more to do with European national debt (PIGS as it is called: Portugal, Italy, Greece & Spain) than the current US dilemma of a S&P downgrade of the US government debt. Don’t spend like it’s 1999. Don’t want to call it either way.

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Start Up Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2019

The weird part is that USA and China both surveil their citizens, though the Chinese government isn’t making a secret of tracking their citizens, while the USA is pretending it’s about security when clearly it’s not. Why it mattered: An open and fair internet took a massive hit when Facebook bought Instagram.

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Up and Running

JUNE 18, 2014

Founded in 1999 in Montreal, Canada, ice.com was recently acquired by Round 2 Inc., An incubator or a coworking space – this is especially helpful if you’re an internet startup business. an ecommerce company headed by CEO Brandon Proctor. Shameless advice: mine these connections.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

When one agent acts on behalf of multiple principals, the multiple principals have to agree on the agent’s objectives, but face a collective action problem in governance, as individual principals may lobby the agent or otherwise act in their individual interests rather than in the collective interest of all principals.”

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

In more than a decade of writing about the Internet and tech-enabled businesses I’ve learned that mobs don’t do nuance well. If you read the headlines or talk with zealous friends you may well think cryptocurrencies are either our savior from bureaucratic, ossified governments or are purely speculative Ponzi schemes.

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