1999 Acquisition Metrics Viral 
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 16, 2009
What metrics do we use to see if we learned enough in Customer Discovery ? I gave my boilerplate answer, “I’m a product guy and I tend to invest and look at deals that have measurable revenue metrics. Dave McClure has some great metrics…” It was an honest but vaguely unsatisfying answer.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they’re sitting on a gold mine. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million.
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Agile VC
MAY 26, 2011
Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round). This is my 2nd time trying this, first time was in 1999. link] leehower. A lot has changed.
Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
JUNE 19, 2010
In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering. It made this site very sticky and it grew organically through viral word-of-mouth as a result of doing that. In 2004 I began blogging.
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