In 1920, there were zero Sears department stores.
Then there were hundreds and hundreds all across the country.
By 2020, there might well be zero Sears department stores again.
What happened?
To understand, you need to know why there were …
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Dan Kennedy and the Internet
This is an excerpt of a talk Dan Kennedy gave at the System Seminar in 2004 (thirteen years ago as of this writing.)
I wonder how many Internet marketers listened?
Anyone who has been in the Internet business for even …
Where we were in 1994
This is Marc Andreessen now of Andreesen-Horowitz and the co-founder of Netscape, the first company to sell web software.
In this brief clip, he talks about what the climate was like for Internet entrepreneurs in 1994.
Take-aways:
“The prevailing …
Yes, it’s true – I did it
Life is full of surprises – and sometimes they’re even pleasant.
Out of the blue, and twenty year after the fact, someone writing in Time Magazine gave me credit for the fundamental insight that made the early Internet industry possible …
The real Secret: How successful businesses get that way
A few years ago, there was a wildly successful movie/book/craze called “The Secret.” To me, “The Secret” was massive wishful thinking bottled and sold like snake oil.
This article is not about THAT “Secret.”
It’s about what less than 1 …
When the commercial web was born
I gave this talk twenty years ago today on November 5, 1994.
In case you forgot (or are too young to remember), “normal” people didn’t use the Internet back then.
There was no Facebook, no Google, no eBay, no Amazon …