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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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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). is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. Ok, now you have the context for early 2003.

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#KillerSaaSPitch in 10 Words (Part 2)

Cracking the Code

When Elon Musk received $200 million from the proceeds of the PayPal acquisition in 2002, he re-invested everything to build the next big thing: $100 million in SpaceX and $100 million in Tesla. In other words, there are universal metrics that smart investors require to make investing decisions. Talk about passion and commitment!

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Welcome to the Widget Wars

Eric Friedman

In most cases the metric of success varies greatly from widget to widget. This also helps my definition come into being; Below are just some of the metrics of success for a widget; 1. According to my own timeline, I would say 2002. Time spent. Driving people back to your site. Who is making the widgets?

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

Cracking the Code

2002, the stock price went from $17.5 SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Did he really "accidentally" made several hundred million dollars by investing in a company (NetSuite) that raised $120m and turned it into a $1B market cap… What an unsuccessful outcome!

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

blog.expensify.com

Hey, David Barrett, instead of considering the percentage of start-ups that don’t use.NET as some kind of meaningful metric, the more important metric is how many of these start-ups burn through their venture funds before producing any viable product to sell. March 27, 2011 at 3:50 pm. Robert Stanton. Patrick Smacchiauiul.

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Cracking The Code: Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends

Cracking the Code

With the oil barrel price moving from $20 in 2002 to $124 today, and cities like San Francisco in active discussion to build a 5-megawatt installation within the city limits , this prediction seems on its way - and was widely approved by the audience. SaaS business metrics: why are they different? ► 06/17 - 06/24. (1).