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Feb
5th

Sun

Crash Dev: Top three reasons NOT to do a local online startup (and what to do instead)

Insightful post by Judy’s Book former CEO Chris Devore on the pitfalls of local internet businesses.

Tags: internet local entrepreneurship yelp

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Feb
3rd

Fri

Apple Inc - today, the world’s most valuable technology corporation - went public at a valuation of just $1.19 billion in 1980, equivalent to 25 times revenue and 102 times earnings. Google - to which Facebook is most often measured against in terms of potential - was valued at $23 billion at the time of its 2004 debut, or 218 times earnings.

— Analysis: A sobering look at Facebook | Reuters

Tags: facebook internet entrepreneurship apple google ipo

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Jan
25th

Wed

Time spent on Mobile Apps vs Web Browsing (via You’ve probably underestimated just how big this is – Cross Platform Dev Blog)

Tags: internet mobile apps

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Jan
13th

Fri

Google, what were you thinking? ← Mocality Kenya

What a screw-up.

Tags: google internet kenya mocality

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Jan
5th

Thu

The Ugly Truth

Tags: internet 2012 beautiful

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Dec
18th

Sun

If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then you’re competing against a lot of people. But if you’re willing to invest on a seven-year time horizon, you’re now competing against a fraction of those people, because very few companies are willing to do that.

— Amazon.com and Jeff Bezos Talk Long Term and Mean It - NYTimes.com

Tags: entrepreneurship amazon jeff bezos internet competition

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Dec
17th

Sat

Last night I had a horrifying dream that a group of well-intentioned middle-aged people who could not distinguish between a domain name and an IP address were trying to regulate the Internet.

— The nightmarish SOPA hearings - ComPost - The Washington Post

Tags: internet US SOPA

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Dec
11th

Sun