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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

Both Sides of the Table

I don’t believe that search is the only answer in 2010 as it was in 2000. Finally, I HATE the name. Golden rule of branding for me: 1) name your company or product your URL and 2) don’t paint yourself into a corner. &# Tweet&# = corner. My bet: within 18 months they will change the name and go multi-stream.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

The IPO Bubble – August 1995 – March 2000 In August 1995 Netscape went public, and the world of start ups turned upside down. Yahoo would hit $104/share in March 2000 with a market cap of $104 billion.) The boom in Internet startups would last 4½ years until it came crashing down to earth in March 2000.

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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

Both Sides of the Table

And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. We jockey to make sure the press release has our names on it. It’s true that it’s cheaper to start companies now and cheaper to get distribution. It is the new cocktail party conversation. It is slowly becoming Florida Condos.

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

Both Sides of the Table

There were chat rooms, discussion groups, dating, classified ads – you name it. AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. They controlled distribution to the masses. In in the early 90′s I was in my early 20′s and I programmed on mainframe computers using COBOL, CICS and DB2.

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Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams

Feld Thoughts

I’ve been working with Matt since 2000. The two companies did the same thing and were the only two competitors in a nascent category called “email change of address” (Veripost’s original name was IECOA which stood for “Internet Email Change of Address”). Matt was the co-founder/CEO of Return Path.

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Reduce Your Server Response Time for Happy Users, Higher Rankings

ConversionXL

A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a group of geographically distributed servers that work together to deliver online content faster. You or your domain name registrar will need to amend your DNS name server records to point your domain to your CDN’s servers. Google has started to recommend a format called JPEG 2000.

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability. August 1995 – March 2000: The Dot.Com Bubble. For a specific startup this list is probably a few hundred names. Wide Adoption.

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