The Next Web

AUGUST 6, 2013

WebVan went bankrupt in 2001 after burning through $1 billion on warehouses, inventory systems and fleet delivery trucks. Zappos could have gone off and built distribution centers, a large database of footwear, and inventory systems for shipping shoes. Real world example: WebVan vs Zappos. Contrast this to Zappos.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

We recently wrapped up our strategy offsite, an annual event that brings together the members of our very distributed team – 12 different cities in four different countries – to discuss what our aspirations and ambitions are for the coming year. Here is the TL:DR version in case you are pressed for time. STARTING IT UP.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

How much change will you demand? I just knew that subscription-based dial-up services like CompuServe and America Online, and the one I’d been working on at Apple, eWorld , could potentially distribute information in far more powerful ways than what you could do with books, TV, and other traditional forms of media. Is it ongoing?

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

One dimension is a pretty firm belief that starting financial services companies should not be as hard as it is, and that there is demand in the market for yet another venture fund focused on functionally day-zero companies in financial services. Dan Kimerling: I love 2001: a Space Odyssey. On Dan’s Favorite Books.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Incorporated in 1998 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company’s network of over 100,000 globally distributed servers provides an infrastructure layer that accelerates the distribution and delivery of content, media and applications. Many people know Akamai as the purveyor of the Internet’s backbone. Founding Akamai. Gross Profit. $(60).

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Diego Basch

JUNE 2, 2012

In 1999 it was common practice to print the employee roster every week (including phone extensions) and distribute it to everyone. Clearly there wasn’t enough demand. During the 2001 crash it lost all its value. My name is Diego, so my odds of being interested in a Spanish-language portal were relatively high.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

Corner Piece Productions doesn’t have its own website currently, but here’s the site for West of Her, which picked up five Best Narrative Feature awards over our festival tour this summer, along with rave review from critics across the country, and is set for wide video on demand distribution this year.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

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. Mark Siegel, managing director at venture capital firm Menlo Ventures, which has managed more than $4 billion since 1976, said its a matter of supply and demand.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

MARCH 5, 2013

The council has issued 63,000 credit transcripts since 2001. Also, while we are talking Amazon, lets think Kindle/ebook model — digital products served on demand with few physical activities and interactions before, during or after the sale. These days students can get transcripts for ACE’s credit recommendations for $20 a pop.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

— in a class so high in demand that I had to wait several quarters to take it? With the recent wave of on-demand offerings from taxi cabs to mobile dry cleaning, consumers have started to rethink the way they book and buy products and services. In 2001, I came home to find my apartment on fire. 16) Bring Change.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

We downsized from 35 people in 2001 and are now a size that allows us to work directly with clients. We can extend our clients' reach tremendously, and for low cost, by using the internet and social media to distribute and link to the "assets" we create. Having fun again. Our name Reality2 stands for Reality2.0. Absolutely.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. Instawork (*) is an on-demand staffing app for gig workers (professionals) and hospitality businesses (partners). annual GMV.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

And content distribution. ” I think the first thing to remember is you can spot the early warnings long before these things are at your doorstep demanding that you respond to them. We forget, we think this is ancient history, it was 2001, I mean it wasn’t that long ago. How do you decide what to do about it?

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The New York Times, January 2001. Finally, in December 2001, came the big reveal: Ginger was the Segway. . It doesn’t serve demand; it creates it.”. For marketers, then, the goal is to distribute that secret, in full or part, for maximum impact: To create real value for Insiders. That was all most people knew.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The New York Times, January 2001. Finally, in December 2001, came the big reveal: Ginger was the Segway. . It doesn’t serve demand; it creates it.”. For marketers, then, the goal is to distribute that secret, in full or part, for maximum impact: To create real value for Insiders. That was all most people knew.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Around 2001 Jonah was studying at MIT Media Lab and began running experiments in viral stories in an era before smart phones (2007) and before social networks took off (2004–2007) and before YouTube (2005). I asked Jonah in my interview how he became this viral guru. He thinks the very nature of video is changing. I asked Jonah about this. “I

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