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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. To give you a sense, for 2002 the entire US online ad market was $6B and had shrunk year over year (it was $25B+ for 2010). And obviously all the liq prefs went away in the IPO when pref stock converted to common. link] leehower.

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Stitch Fix: Reinventing Retail Through Personalization

abovethecrowd.com

Awareness of the service was clearly spreading virally through word of mouth. For starters, the business metrics are quite compelling. It turns out that the majority of the women in our office were rabid fans of the service, and what’s more, so were many of their friends outside of Benchmark.

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Cracking The Code: Death Sentence for SaaS.or for Lawson?

Cracking the Code

He should have invested in Lawson obviously… I could not track back their stock price in 1998 when NetSuite was launched, but since Jan. 2002, the stock price went from $17.5 SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. per share to $8.0 ► 06/17 - 06/24. (1).

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Look at what happened with Microsoft’s attempt to get the London Stock Exchange onto.NET – a total failure. But I admit, I started programming assembly at 11 and then did a lot of C++ before moving on to.NET in 2002. We wrote all of our software in VB6 and then ported it to.NET in 2001/2002. Robert Stanton.

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