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Jason Calacanis:
At the time, profiles were a big deal in media. If you did a profile of a person, the New Yorker or Wired would do profiles, both of them had done profiles …
Charles Adler:
Since moving back to Chicago, I became involved in the School of the Art Institute, and they had started an entrepreneurial program of some kind, and they felt as though they had …
Aaron Dinin:
I’m guessing, for the majority of you listening, you do a significant chunk of your purchasing at amazon.com, or at the very least, a site like it. Amazon may or may not …
Aaron Dinin:
I’ve talked with a lot of the early digital music pioneers here on Web Masters, and pretty much all of them got basically sued out of existence by the big music labels …
Alon Carmel:
And so we run to his house, which I didn’t have a computer, but he had a computer. He was kind of a techy guy. He was a really nerd, techy guy …
Carl Lipo:
We created a site called knitting.com or knittingsomething.com, ultimate Frisbee, book report, cookie recipe, and I think roadside reviews. Five different sites, stuff like that. We decided, “Okay, we’re going to pick …
James Hong:
Yes, it was like the most superficial thing in the world. The reality is we weren’t saying that looks were important, we were just saying, if you want to get an honest …
Jesse Lipson:
We were very measured because I was committed to just growing within our means, and so we actually had 1,000 customers before I hired our first full-time employee. Our first full-time employee …
Mitch Kapor:
One of the cardinal points that we make is that all businesses have impact, some is positive and some is negative. The fact that our accounting rules view some of those negative …