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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. The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. Ok, now you have the context for early 2003.

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21 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

My father and I started the business back in 2002 with the following dream: “our mission is to support USA families and jobs by producing high-quality clothing, in the USA, at an affordable price. The city needed what i’d been working so hard on in all other cities – revenue and advertisers. Photo Credit: BJ Nickol.

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Ninja Moves from a Secret Marketing Entrepreneur

The Startup Magazine

1) Don’t Assume Advertising Creates Growth. Let’s break these three key concepts down: Don’t Assume Advertising Creates Growth. Industry experts have said for the last 15 years that advertising was dead. Yet, companies are STILL spending money on advertisements that try to induce buyers into making a purchase. Guess what?

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The Long And Short Of Rebranding Your Business

YoungUpstarts

In 2002, Hewlett Packard signed a merger agreement with Compaq that would bring together the computer hardware businesses of the two businesses, each with revenues of over $40 billion. So between 2002 and 2007, Compaq continued to use their logo with little change. HP Merger With Compaq. The first step was PR.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

In 2002, McKinsey published a study of 1,000 U.S. can introduce a ‘fighter brand,’ a lower-priced version of the premium offering sold under a different name and backed by minimal advertising.” Even less does it mean high transaction volume or revenue. ad spend going down by 12% and agencies losing between 3 and 30% of revenue.

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Will Work for Equity - Investing in Clients - Arizona Bay

www.inc.com

Advertising. But with the help of Grahams company, which specializes in creating tech systems for start-ups, Jumpstart grew to more than $50 million in revenue--enough to make it an attractive acquisition for media conglomerate Hachette Filipacchi. Arizona Bay has also blended equity payments with revenue-sharing deals.

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Stitch Fix: Reinventing Retail Through Personalization

abovethecrowd.com

Also, many of these companies were built with heavy doses of advertising spend, a clear red-flag in our book. 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.