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). We three partners are working hard. Great to see you had such a good partner to start with.

Term Sheet 178

Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

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). My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. All the other stuff Yahoo! Previous Entries.

IP 100

IP IPO Social Network Silicon Valley 100

Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Philip Bouchard : You’ve started teaching at Berkeley since 2002, Columbia in 2003 and at Stanford since 2011. With the nature of work changing, the core skills entrepreneurs need to know to become practitioners are actually core skills that everybody will need to know to get a job: creativity, agility, resilience, tenacity, curiosity.

Incubator 331

Incubator Lean Programming Government 331

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Teams use the Lean Startup toolkit: the Business Model Canvas + Customer Development process + Agile Engineering. These three tools allow startups to focus on the parts of an early stage venture that matter the most: the product, product/market fit, customer acquisition, revenue and cost model, channels and partners.

Oakland 327

Oakland Incubator Lean Metrics 327

Agile VC

JUNE 25, 2012

I’m obviously biased, but I still think LinkedIn is an awesome platform today and they continue to innovate, grow, and evolve nearly 10 years after we started the company at the end of 2002. His co-founder/CMO Alex Cote has run customer acquisition programs that have attracted millions of users via a range of channels.

Cofounder 140

Cofounder Stealth Silicon Valley Mobile 140

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Sarah also points to the vast global wealth that has to get allocated somewhere as well as a small bump in long term average returns, now that the generally terrible performance of funds from the 2000-2002 time frame (after the tech bubble of the late 90s crashed) no longer factor in to 10 year returns.

LP 154

LP Portfolio Venture Capital IRR 154