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      Functional Areas: Funding, Legal, Marketing, Recruiting
      Skills: Leadership, Productivity

  4. About Altavista

    The name AltaVista refers both to an Internet search engine company and to that company’s search engine product.

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    2. How Not to Name a Startup: The Curse of the Camel Case

      Explore Xconomy (Jan 5 2012)

      How Not to Name a Startup: The Curse of the Camel Case ...is. Historically, camel-case companies have had their share of difficulties. Consider the plight of AltaVista, the early search engine that lost out to Google. Or of struggling MySpace, which seems to have act... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Oracle   Apple   Microsoft

    3. What happened to AltaVista and Yahoo? From innovator to imitator to forgotten

      Explore VentureFizz (Aug 12 2010)

      ...combinator wrote an excellent blog on "What happened to Yahoo?". It reminded me of what happened to AltaVista, the first and most popular search engine. Yahoo thought they were a media company, not a software ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Lycos   AOL   DEC

    4. How to Start a Startup

      Explore Paul Graham (May 21 2010)

      ...ominated by big players who'd spent millions to build their brands: Yahoo, Lycos, Excite, Infoseek, Altavista, Inktomi. Surely 1998 was a little late to arrive at the party. But as the founders of Google knew,... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Henry Ford   Jeff Bezos   Lycos

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