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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. 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). is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. Ok, now you have the context for early 2003.

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Techstars brings The Lean Startup to Boulder

Startup Lessons Learned

I thought Id share a little bit of that, too: I’ve been interested in different approaches to software development going back to 1987 when – in my first company Feld Technologies – my partner Dave Jilk and I started talking about “semi-custom software development&# (way ahead of its time). Expo SF (May.

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Yahoo! vs Facebook: Lame Lawsuit, Good Timing ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

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). It expended 14M to develop a technology that was stolen. All the other stuff Yahoo!

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The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

Startup Lessons Learned

Im working on a future post where Ill share the details of how I used customer development to shape both the content and packaging of this event, so look for that soon. We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

Lean LaunchPad class developed for Stanford. Philip Bouchard : You’ve started teaching at Berkeley since 2002, Columbia in 2003 and at Stanford since 2011. Other classes were on how to prep for VC pitches or develop the five year income statements, balance sheets and cash flows or read case studies. Worth a read.

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Lessons Learned: Inc Magazine on Minimum Viable Product (and a.

Startup Lessons Learned

Unfortunately, after months or even years of development, many companies discover that customers arent willing to buy their new wares. Thats why some entrepreneurs are trying another approach to product launches: marketing a product online before spending much on research and development or inventory. Read the rest.

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How to Build Robust User Personas in Under a Month

ConversionXL

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.”.