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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. And obviously all the liq prefs went away in the IPO when pref stock converted to common. We’ve been lucky.

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Stitch Fix: Reinventing Retail Through Personalization

abovethecrowd.com

Also, many of these companies were built with heavy doses of advertising spend, a clear red-flag in our book. For starters, the business metrics are quite compelling. In addition to market concerns, I had the unique experience of working with Dan Nordstrom and the team at Nordstrom.com in August of 1999.

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How to Find Hundreds of Business Ideas

Up and Running

They’re a camera company that got started in 2002. At Palo Alto Software, we use our own product – LivePlan – to manage and keep track of key business metrics. To cater to a unicycle hockey player’s needs, Unicycle.com, headquartered in the UK, has decided to stock ice-hockey sticks. Very clever. Ever heard of GoPro?

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How to Build Robust User Personas in Under a Month

ConversionXL

They took on cheesy stock photos and cringey names like Big Spender Billy. running regression analyses against success metrics), but we knew what our “ideal customer profile” looked like for the most part, and we knew which customer profiles were worth the most money to us generally. Artistic and Aspirational Alex…?

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How to Build Robust User Personas in Under a Month

ConversionXL

One of the best definitions I’ve found, which expounds a bit more, comes from Tony Zambito circa 2002 : Tony Zambito: Buyer personas are research-based archetypal (modeled) representations of who buyers are, what they are trying to accomplish, what goals drive their behavior, how they think, how they buy, and why they make buying decisions.

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Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned

om.co

I remember sitting down in the balcony of my apartment and looking into the night, taking stock of my life so far. In the early days, my belief was that blogs (or as I called them micro-pubs back in 2002) would grow really fast and it would allow me to aggregate large subsets of audiences around specific niches. I wanted to write.

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

It’s sort of like a supercharged version of Excel that lets you suck in data, you can suck in all your Facebook advertising campaigns, you can suck in all your Salesforce.com data, and you can run — you can actually, yourself, as a small business person, actually analyze and find friends and data. We don’t have to sell our stock.