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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

There were startups and a software industry but barely. I started my first company in 1999 and was admittedly swept up in all of this: Magazine covers, fancy conferences, artificial valuations and easy money. 2001–2007: THE BUILDING YEARS The dot com bubble had burst. There was no money train. It was 1991. Until we weren’t.

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Interview with Jimmy Hendricks, Deal Current

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We actually built that about a year and a half ago, and are bringing that back due to overwhelming demand. In April of 2010, we put up Dealcurent.com, and we started indexing number one on Google for daily deals software. We had our contest software, ArtisticHub, driving some revenue. How do clients license your software?

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When to Pay a Premium for Your Company Domain Name

Startup Professionals Musings

Kevin Ham was the most powerful dotcom mogul you've never heard of in 2007, reports Business 2.0 Early on, he wrote software to snag expiring names on the cheap. Review my previous article on this challenge – “ Ten Keys to a Killer Name For Your Company.” But that’s all history, and you have to live with it.

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

Both Sides of the Table

Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? reinvented, with more people online and trained. The Present Era.