Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 16, 2009
I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. In it, I got asked a question I often hear: “What if we have a web-based business that doesn’t have revenue or paying customers?
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 19, 2009
I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. Web service architecture that provides a content management platform for the Internet. Page 2: What’s unique about Koral. Folksonomy. Free product.
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Agile VC
MAY 26, 2011
The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. It’ll be nearly two years before the concept of “Web 2.0″ ″ is popularized by Tim O’Reilly (the first Web 2.0 This is my 2nd time trying this, first time was in 1999.
Sophia Perl of Wisdom
AUGUST 27, 2011
You can get more sign-ups using viral techniques. That’s the story of Matt Mickiewicz the founder of Sitepoint, a site which, back in 1999, was the first online forum for web designers and developers. It has matured to be a massive web community and tutorial/resource archive for web developers and designers now.
abovethecrowd.com
OCTOBER 17, 2013
Awareness of the service was clearly spreading virally through word of mouth. 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. ecommerce Internet retailing Uncategorized Venture Capital Web/Tech Ecommerce Retailing Stitch Fix'
thebarefootvc
DECEMBER 16, 2011
The viral nature of social media no doubt aided this growth, as did improvements in the online shopping experience. Disruption in the Education Space: When I first started looking at education technology investments in 1999, very few VCs would go near the sector.
Hearpreneur
OCTOBER 1, 2016
We built some early ecommerce sites around 1999 and back office order processing systems using visual basic for applications (VBA). Our goal was to create a viral environment where personal networks and recommendations helped drive online store purchases. . #8 – Almost By Mistake. Photo Credit: Marcus Miller. I was a developer.
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