Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 31, 2011
It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. I remember having a merger called off at the last minute and having a planning meeting at a pub to figure out how to run a bankruptcy process (luckily, we never had to do it). Imagine how Flurry felt when Steve Jobs called them out by name.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 22, 2011
It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. I remember having a merger called off at the last minute and having a planning meeting at a pub to figure out how to run a bankruptcy process (luckily, we never had to do it). Imagine how Flurry felt when Steve Jobs called them out by name.
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BeyondVC
MARCH 23, 2004
There were a number of attendees who were here during the past few years and their businesses raised a fair amount of capital and somehow they managed to survive the nuclear winter during the 2001-2002 period. What allowed them to do it? What are the challenges they face now?
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
But nine months after the first call was made in 1998, Iridium was in Chapter 11 bankruptcy. They made other assumptions about the type of sales channel, partnerships and revenue model they would need. Seven years after it was founded their satellites and ground stations were in place. It was a technical tour de force.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 31, 2010
I stayed up late every night after a day of meetings doing email until 3am so that I didn’t feel out of touch with our product and sales pipelines. We were weeks from bankruptcy. By the time of my wedding in July 2002 I was super fit. Dinners were consumed with customers or in hotels and often past 10pm.
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