Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

But the first real time we had a big celebration and folks felt like we’d “made it” was the party we held in the parking lot on February 14, 2002 when PayPal went public. The company held holiday parties at the end of each year and lots of friendships were spawned from work collaborations.

Startup 188

Startup Cofounder Seed Stage IPO 188

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

Agile VC

DECEMBER 4, 2014

For example, when we started LinkedIn at the end of 2002, each member of the founding team essentially had a couple chunks of founders’ common stock. In other cases, some co-founders might forgo salary early on (if their personal circumstances permit) to earn an additional share of “sweat” equity.

Cofounder 255

Cofounder Equity Founder Sweat Equity 255

Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

When we sold PayPal to eBay in 2002 we had just gone public earlier that year. Recently prominent activist shareholders have also been “encouraging” eBay management to spin off PayPal as a way to maximize shareholder value.

Mobile 157

Mobile Acquisition Revenue Management 157

Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

But the first real time we had a big celebration and folks felt like we’d “made it” was the party we held in the parking lot on February 14, 2002 when PayPal went public. The company held holiday parties at the end of each year and lots of friendships were spawned from work collaborations.

Startup 100

Startup Cofounder Seed Stage IPO 100

Agile VC

JANUARY 21, 2015

We went public in 2002 and eBay bought the company later that year for over $1.5 This has very real consequences that founders should consider — both for their relationships with investors and for the success of their current and future ventures (and therefore the many people likely tied to these ventures). The Power of Perception .

Cofounder 188

Cofounder Seed Stage Employee PR 188

Agile VC

DECEMBER 4, 2014

For example, when we started LinkedIn at the end of 2002, each member of the founding team essentially had a couple chunks of founders’ common stock. In other cases, some co-founders might forgo salary early on (if their personal circumstances permit) to earn an additional share of “sweat” equity.

Cofounder 173

Cofounder Equity Founder Sweat Equity 173

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. But as I said, we had to put NextView’s ethos in our own words. I’m a complete nut about soccer… I played in my youth and have been an avid fan for many years.

South Korea 124

South Korea Seed Stage Silicon Valley Syndicate 124

Agile VC

JANUARY 21, 2015

We went public in 2002 and eBay bought the company later that year for over $1.5 This has very real consequences that founders should consider — both for their relationships with investors and for the success of their current and future ventures (and therefore the many people likely tied to these ventures). The Power of Perception .

Cofounder 100

Cofounder Seed Stage Employee PR 100

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

The first, according to Dr. David Travis at UserFocus , was agile development : Dr. David Travis: “‘Development’ teams morphed into ‘design’ teams. To use the agile terminology, design teams wanted to get a ‘shared understanding’ of their users and they were suspicious of any attempt to set requirements in concrete.”.

Software Review 115

Software Review Design Agile Analytics 115

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. Expo SF (May.

San Francisco 137

San Francisco Product Lean Continuous Deployment 137

ConversionXL

MARCH 7, 2017

One of the best definitions I’ve found, which expounds a bit more, comes from Tony Zambito circa 2002 : Tony Zambito: Buyer personas are research-based archetypal (modeled) representations of who buyers are, what they are trying to accomplish, what goals drive their behavior, how they think, how they buy, and why they make buying decisions.

Software Review 102

Software Review Design Agile Analytics 102

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Teams use the Lean Startup toolkit: the Business Model Canvas + Customer Development process + Agile Engineering. Until 2002 – when the Oakland A’s’ baseball team took advantage of analytical metrics of player performance to field a team that competed successfully against much richer competitors.

Oakland 326

Oakland Incubator Lean Metrics 326

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

And they rolled all of this up into a set of financial forecasts with a “size of market” forecast from brand name management consulting firms that said they’d have 42 million customers by 2002. Customer Development, Business Model Design and Agile Development could have changed the outcome. A Business Plan Frozen in Time.

Business Plan 335

Business Plan Customer Business Model Customer Development 335

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. And of course email, CRM, and other tools for managing your network of contacts are far older.

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

www.readwriteweb.com

DECEMBER 22, 2011

In the early days of the CMS we had major players such as OpenText (which didn't really have true CMS functionality until around 2002 ), Vignette (which was a separate company before being acquired by OpenText in 2009), and Fatwire (which was acquired by Oracle this past summer), among others. The modern CMS is still in a state of flux.

Development Team Review 50

Development Team Review Software Review HTML Social Media 50

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

ALT.NET is a large sector of the.NET community that isn’t satisfied with the status quo and wants to find the best, most agile way to do things. This is about the mental agility, inquisitiveness and determination of a coder. We wrote all of our software in VB6 and then ported it to.NET in 2001/2002. Patrick Smacchiauiul.

Java 107

Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Conveniently we have early data on PayPal from when we went public (February 2002) and now again that PayPal has spun out as a standalone public company, separate from eBay.

IPO 165

IPO .Net Revenue Acquisition 165