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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Many assume it was a cakewalk, based on the success LinkedIn has enjoyed over time and the current stature of our founder/CEO Reid Hoffman (now Chairman). Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. Thanks Lee.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

In 2002, McKinsey published a study of 1,000 U.S. The questions that clients ask in the coming months are going to be more focused on business results and less on trends and vanity metrics. What the big studies have shown. companies covering the period 1982–99, which included a recession during 1990–91. Survey design.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

Most importantly, if you know a high-quality entrepreneur who you think would add to the conversation, would you be willing to try and convince them to attend? We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002. Would you be willing to link to the Master Class info page from your blog? It was a disaster.

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Current Startup Market Emotional Biases

Feld Thoughts

“Many Unicorn founders and CEOs have never experienced a difficult fundraising environment — they have only known success. ” Fred and I have had some version of this conversation many times over the past twenty years as we both strongly believe the punch line.