Agile VC
MAY 26, 2011
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). I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. quite encouraging.
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 30, 2009
In 2002 I became exposed to the idea of “agile software development&# and subsequently was a first round investor in Rally Software which is now the market leader in Agile application lifecycle management software. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.
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Agile VC
MARCH 13, 2012
It was filed in 2005 and issued in 2010 which means there was a good deal of prior art around SNS before Yahoo filed. While it was still a college-focused SNS, Facebook of course launched in 2004 and there were plenty of other examples of social networking already… Friendster (2002), LinkedIn (2003), MySpace (2003), Orkut (2004).
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 14, 2009
We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002. Having lived through this, I wholeheartedly agree that if we had not had enough runway, adopted an agile/lean approach or had patience from our investors it would have failed miserably. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,
Feld Thoughts
FEBRUARY 8, 2010
Today Rally is a 150 person company that plans to add another 75 people in 2010 on the heels of Rally’s $16 million financing led by Greylock. And – since their birth in 2002, Rally has had 17 babies (well – people that work for Rally have had the babies, but you probably figured that out.) I wonder how Agile Parenthood works?
Agile VC
FEBRUARY 7, 2012
I’ve been to a World Cup (South Korea 2002), gold medal Olympic soccer matches (men & women Beijing 2008), English Premier League, MLS, heck even AYSO. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. But as I said, we had to put NextView’s ethos in our own words. Read More ».
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 19, 2009
We do not develop a product until we get a paying customer," says Orit Pennington , who co-founded the six-employee company with her husband in 2002. We do not develop a product until we get a paying customer," says Orit Pennington , who co-founded the six-employee company with her husband in 2002. It’s an awesome thing to watch.
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