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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). This is my 2nd time trying this, first time was in 1999. Ok, now you have the context for early 2003.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

In 2002, McKinsey published a study of 1,000 U.S. At the same time, the company contained its operating costs and came out of the recession stronger, bigger, and more profitable than it had been in 1999. Survey design. What the big studies have shown.

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One More Time: No NDAs

dashes.com

If you can, design for circumstances where, once youre ready to start talking about your idea, youre encouraging people to "disclose" your efforts. The essential design paradigm can be sketched on the back of an envelope. I guess the design will go to my grave with me. And that shouldnt require a contract at all. or Portland.

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The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

Startup Lessons Learned

I joined a financial services tech startup in 1999. We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002. Unfortunately, Im a student in Australia so the possibility of travelling to the US isnt too feasible or affordable. May 14, 2009 5:23 AM David said. We attempted to use Waterfall and market ourselves as B2C.

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No Business Plan Survives First Contact With A Customer – The 5.2 billion dollar mistake.

Steve Blank

And they rolled all of this up into a set of financial forecasts with a “size of market” forecast from brand name management consulting firms that said they’d have 42 million customers by 2002. iridium-9500 satellite phone ~1999. Customer Development, Business Model Design and Agile Development could have changed the outcome.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

I started my business when my first book (on telecommuting) was published in 1999 (in the dark ages of virtual work!). In the fall season of 2010, as close friends, we began the process of realizing our decade-old dream of forming a professional architecture + design partnership. Thanks to David Shove-Brown and David Tracz, //3877 !

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

alexpoole.info

User experience design and research. Case study: Icon design. Back in 1998 when Times New Roman was still widely used on the web, my then boss made sure we always designed our web sites with Arial, as she hated the look of serif fonts on the web. 5; in Lund, 1999 ). Bix, 2002). Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ).