Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

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. You just started building. Trust your allies too.

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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. Any discussion of Internet marketplaces begins with the first quintessential marketplace, ebay (*). Exchange of Goods Marketplaces. annual GMV.

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Mucker Lab

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Most brilliant “Internet of Things” ideas are quicksand for capital unless you have the branding, vertical integration and customer lock-in that Apple achieved. However, the rise of the Internet equalized if not flipped the ratio as the web (and mobile) created a new product category and distribution platform.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Venture Capitalists on your board developed the expertise to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 14, 2016

A durable, trendsetting presence in the industry since 2001, the Atlanta-based firm sends over a billion emails per day and is the go-to choice for over 14 million organizations and individuals around the world. I use Mailchimp for the distribution of weekly newsletters, and for list growth via opt-ins for multiple types of campaigns.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 18, 2011

I also plan to price it low so it has the potential for broad distribution. Before the Internet (1970 to 1994). Pre Internet Bubble (1995 – 2000). The Internet Bubble (2001 – 2002). Comments of any sort are welcome and encouraged! The table of contents, as of today, follows. Boulder As A Laboratory.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

While a flood of new VCs came into existence during the late 90’s internet boom, many had difficulty raising new funds after the crashes of 2000-2001 and 2008 , and as a result significantly fewer fund managers exist now compared to a decade ago. In the past ten years there have been several dramatic changes in venture capital.

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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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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Many people know Akamai as the purveyor of the Internet’s backbone. 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. How did Akamai do it? . .

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

stock market: The change led by NASDAQ in early 2001 to valuing stocks in increments from one-eighth of a dollar down to one cent. Then the risk of that product succeeding is lessened by network effects made feasible by app stores and digital distribution, driving up customer adoption. Two orders of magnitude.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

They know that in a Power Law distributed business, if they create value, it is going to be an exceptionally large quantum of value. Dan Kimerling: I love 2001: a Space Odyssey. Just like when you talk to entrepreneurs, I think they can internalize the fact that the overwhelming statistical likelihood is that they will create no value.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Fortune and CNN had a partnership; I first appeared to talk about an article I’d written in 2001 about the bubble bursting. JB: Media and Internet companies – Hollywood and Silicon Valley—are more interconnected now than ever. Many of the Internet giants – which we think of as ‘tech companies’ are next-generation media companies.

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Diego Basch

JUNE 2, 2012

In the late nineties, internet IPOs were all the rage. In 1999 it was common practice to print the employee roster every week (including phone extensions) and distribute it to everyone. During the 2001 crash it lost all its value. It was really easy for a company to go public, and most of them had a tremendous first-day pop.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2016

” This was around 2001. Everybody doesn’t have hi-speed Internet. We found a core distribution model that worked in terms of long-tail search. … I met these two athletes … one had a little bit of stint in the NBA, the other one had just graduated college and played overseas a little bit. It’s all of these.).

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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. 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. An important message from The Journal.

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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. The rest is history!

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

At Blurb, we’ve built an Internet platform for people to produce their own bookstore-quality books. In March of 2009 EliteEditing.com launched, and I would run back and forth to an Internet café five blocks from my office to manage work coming through and to take business calls. In 2001, I came home to find my apartment on fire.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

And content distribution. Well, I think a stellar example for that business specifically, is the Norway based companies Schibsted, and their head of operations said in the early 90s, he said the internet is perfect for classified ads, classified ads are perfect for the internet. How do you decide what to do about it?

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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.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

He focuses on investments in fintech, the internet, and software. So this has always been our most significant focus area, whether in 2022, 2021, or 2001. . We believed this thing would be able to unlock a multi-product distribution and really strengthen the business mode. The theme of this episode is how to scale unicorns.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

In October of 2001, Webster, McCarthy, and Graff decided to do just that and GoldStar was born. After blowing up some electronic parts and searching the internet for replacements, founder Nathan Seidle saw a business opportunity for an online electronic parts store. How’d they do it? Noah realized this was a niche not to be ignored.

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BeyondVC

JULY 5, 2004

As an investor, the difficult part of any consumer wireless play is that the wireless world is a walled garden and not an open network like the Internet. In addition, imagine the competition to get distribution from the carriers-there are lots of little guys knocking on the door.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. I set up my laptop, connected to the Internet, opened the compulsory 15 page PowerPoint deck and waited for my adoring fans. Web service architecture that provides a content management platform for the Internet. I have raised capital 3 times before so I knew the drill.

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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). It’s no longer necessarily just a long-form, audio on format — it’s becoming part of the fabric of the Internet.

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