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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 was filed in 2005 and issued in 2010 which means there was a good deal of prior art around SNS before Yahoo filed.

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Example of Rally Software Building A Great Company

Feld Thoughts

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.) Recently, Rally’s leadership team decided to do something about this. I wonder how Agile Parenthood works? Nicely done Tim, Ryan, and everyone else at Rally.

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The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

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.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

The truth is that the.NET community, outside of the thought leadership at Microsoft and a few outliers (e.g. 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. StackOverflow), is anemic. One prominent example: Stack Overflow.

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Square IPO: Is Square A Good Payments Business?

Agile VC

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. I wouldn’t play a huge premium on the company though given the leadership questions with Jack Dorsey trying to run potentially two public companies.

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