funny how the internet completely shifted business models, yet I can't think of any modern technology that can do it again. Even mobile phones didn't change the business models much, just made them more viable due to increase adoption of electronic devices
Viaweb's first business plan, from August 1995. We were still figuring out how to describe what later came to be called "web-based software." (That phrase was coined by Merrill Freund, who worked for our PR firm.) http://paulgraham.com/vwplan.html
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Yes, Internet like shift is once in a decade I guess. At least half a decade!
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Wow. The idea of being a software company, not a service company in 1995 was massive
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> How big a role in the future of the Internet will a company like Webgen play? > The answer, perhaps surprisingly, seems to be: a very big role.
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reads like a YC application!
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Fascinating how components of a business plan still remains more or less the same.
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These days there's renewed interest in issuing commands or performing actions from email, I think for example of AMP for Gmail. You mentioned Lisp in your background but not in the business plan, was it because of its reputation or because it wasn't relevant in that context?
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Fantastic, keep the great content coming
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A forest of mighty oaks from a single humble acorn.
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