A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 12, 2010

That may be OK for Twitter — today — but what about the 100 other social-networking-slash-link-sharing networks that didn't survive? In retrospect we say that Google transformed how people find information, and further, how advertising works on the Internet. You just need to try it" and "trust me" don't cut it.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

To do this they have to accomplish five things; 1) get deal flow – via networking and legwork, they identify likely industries, companies and teams with the potential for rapid growth (less than 10 years), 2) evaluate those companies and teams on the basis of technology, market opportunity, and team.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

I don’t believe that search is the only answer in 2010 as it was in 2000. I think the best solution for the social networking era is “in-stream&# advertising. I know you could argue that YouTube was much broader but it was really popularized in the social networks. This is a CDN (Content Delivery Network).

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Ads require an Internet connection and therefore turning off the data connection can stop the ads from popping up. Ads are served from a third-party advertising server or network and sometimes they are truly malicious and can attack the device. Avoid auto-upload of photos to social networks. formerly CA).

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Other social networking, online marketing, clean-tech and bio-tech companies have fallen out of favor with some investors, fueling speculation regarding the future of the US technology sector. The same is true for Internet services, digital media and most products that involve significant up-front research and development (R&D) costs.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

Infonautics went public in 1996 and Half.com was sold to eBay in 2000. They chose the name First Round Capital because they thought capital would be deployed most efficiently at smaller seed stage rounds considering the cost to build an internet business had come down drastically. and Half.com. Investing Strategy.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

– there have also been some major breakthroughs on Bitcoin’s native layer 2 scaling solution, the Lightning Network. Lightning is a network of bi-directional payment channels that allows for instant settlement between parties and routing of payments over a TOR-like p2p network settled in units of bitcoin.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. Facebook doesn’t exist, even as a walled-garden college social network (Mark Zuckerberg was part way through his freshman year at Harvard). link] leehower.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

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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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

Provides networking with cofounders and strategic partners. There are already more than 2000 hackerspaces worldwide, as listed on the Hackerspace Wiki. New products emerge, as diverse as networked-art installations, Internet-of-Things innovations, and many other hybrid software-hardware solutions.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 20, 2024

Around 80% of all major power outages that occurred from 2000 to 2023 were caused by weather. Many parameters may be monitored by technologies like machine learning algorithms and the Internet of Things (IoT). Texas, Michigan, and California were among the most impacted states by weather-related outages.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 3, 2013

age group varies according to source, but the generation is roughly composed of those born between 1981 and 2000, according to Pew Research. Marc Apple, owner and chief strategist at Forward Push Media , said that no one is on social networks 24/7, but across generations most people check email every day. “In Make it mobile.

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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. Much better.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

We’re now in the second Internet bubble. 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. Carpe Diem. The world of building profitable startups ended in 1995.

Internet 335

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

On the IT side of VC investing, we’ve seen countless waves crest and fall… mainframes to minicomputer/workstation, workstation to PC, copper to optical networking, client/server software to cloud, the fabless semiconductor model, magnetic tape to hard drive, etc.

Silicon Valley 240

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. This one claims to be the world’s largest angel investor network, with 750 accredited investor members throughout sixteen chapters on three continents. New England Investment Network. Or does it? I’ll come back to that later. Keiretsu Forum.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2011

Ben and his partner Marc Andreessen (the founder of Netscape and author of the first commercial web browser on the Internet ) are the definition of Smart Money. Their firm, Andreessen/Horowtiz , has been prescient enough to invest in social networks, consumer and mobile applications and the cloud long before others.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

A big technical challenge we studied was piping streaming video over networks. We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet. The same spreadsheet also predicted we’d see a music downloading service in 1999 or 2000. Gene Kim laughed at my prediction.

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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. Her first startup was Bridge Communications, an early networking company that she built to more than 400 people. Nevertheless, she certainly has had numerous successes.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 7, 2014

About 79% of American households have personal computers, 58% of Americans have smartphones, and 42% have tablets, according to Pew Internet and the US Census Bureau. Network Speed Makes For (Uncomfortably) Slow Shopping Experiences. Most personal computers are connected through cables or wifi to high-speed wired network connections.

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Genuine VC

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Originally, I had invited a dozen or so internet entrepreneurs to a Cambridge bar where we crammed into the back room wearing hand-drawn nametags. In the mid-2000’s, there weren’t a lot of options to do so, as the ecosystem vibe still hadn’t recovered from the dot-com bubble burst. Plus, tech has moved on from the Web 2.0

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Genuine VC

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

There are a couple classic archetypes of internet/software founders, including the genius college student cooking up something quirky but ultimately disruptive in his dorm room who launches his company straight out of undergrad. Reactions when I told people I was an “internet entrepreneur” ranged from smirks to blank stares.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Careless or uninformed employees unwittingly infect their work computers with malware by clicking on pop-ups, downloading applications from the internet and opening links from unknown sources. Investing in people can help protect mission-critical data. 2] ISACA, ISACA’s 2015 IT Risk/Reward Barometer , 2015.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Peer-to-peer networking with other startups and founders in the same stage. Another good online approach is a simple Internet search for articles like the “ The top 40 startup accelerators and incubators in North America in 2020 ” But don’t expect incubators to magically convert your pre-hatched idea into a successful company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2022

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. AngelList has featured over 3 million businesses for potential investors in a format that is, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and angels. USA Angel Investment Network. Here are the largest flocks: Gust (formerly AngelSoft).

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VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

Broadcom Corporation, a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, is acquiring Provigent, an Israeli company which develops system-on-a-chip products that enable wireless system vendors to deliver broadband wireless backhaul systems to network operators. DELL INAUGURATES ISRAELI R&D CENTER, DOUBLES WORKERS.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 24, 2018

Transcript of The Evolution of Networking and How It Can Benefit Your Business Today written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. John Jantsch: Well, and certainly, I mean the internet may go away even, right? John Jantsch: So, I know that you do a lot of work with folks on more effective networking. Transcript.

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

They permitted attackers to execute arbitrary code on virtually ever Ruby on Rails application, without requiring that the application do anything to enable the attack other than “be hooked up to the Internet.” In the worst case, attackers root every unpatched Rails app on the Internet. Was anyone actually compromised?

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NZ Entrepreneur

APRIL 5, 2022

Chances are your internet connection is something you haven’t given much thought since you signed up with your provider. However, taking a moment to think about if you are getting the most out of your internet can be a game changer in terms of your capacity to do business. Hyperfibre offers speeds of 2000 Mbps, 4000 Mbps and 8000 Mbps.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Dubbed "collaborative consumption" — or "the sharing economy" — this movement represents the newly cemented intersection of online social networking, mobile technology, the minimalist movement and heightened penny-pinching brought on by lingering economic uncertainties. Thats real money." Only 3% were online when I started AOL.

San Francisco 105

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Last week, I wrote about Akamai , a company with strong network effects that successfully transitioned from a single product to build a platform that garners over a billion dollars in revenue and is now a core part of the Internet’s fabric. Big Data meets travel…in 2000. Magical, really. TripAdvisor’s History: Two Big Pivots.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Use a CDN (Content Delivery Network). A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a group of geographically distributed servers that work together to deliver online content faster. Over half of all the world’s internet traffic is served through a CDN. Google has started to recommend a format called JPEG 2000.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

PMC-Sierra, a premier Internet infrastructure semiconductor solution provider, is purchasing Wintegra Inc. , a leading Israeli provider of highly integrated network processors optimized for mobile backhaul, 3G and 4G wireless and wireline broadband networks. US CHIPMAKER PMC SIERRA ACQUIRES ISRAELI WINTEGRA.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

exabytes per month (or 134 exabytes annually) by 2017, according to he Cisco® Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast for 2012 to 2017. Or 134 times all the Internet Protocol traffic (fixed and mobile) generated in the year 2000. Average global mobile network speeds will increase seven-fold from 2012 (0.5

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The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

I think it might actually be more useful to think of the PC and the internet as separate revolutions with the PC related bubble crashing in the late 1980s and the PC deployment period thereafter overlapping with the installation period for the internet.

Internet 137

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 14, 2022

John Jantsch (00:00): This episode of the duct tape marketing podcast is brought to you by business made simple hosted by Donald Miller and brought to you by the HubSpot podcast network business made simple, takes the mystery out of growing your business. Or you have two of those and now there's 2000 people and everyone's sending a chat.

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