Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

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.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

We interviewed the heads of the top Web and mobile development companies, incubators, agencies and labs to understand what it takes to design and develop the most successful apps of our generation. If you asked me to build Facebook.com for you, I would quote you $500,000 and nine months of development and design time,” says Schippers.

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Agile VC

JUNE 25, 2012

The company has been in stealth mode for the last couple months but I wanted to take this opportunity to talk about NextView’s investment in the company and our enthusiasm to be working with co-founders Dan Foody and Alex Cote. And of course email, CRM, and other tools for managing your network of contacts are far older.

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Scott Edward Walker

JULY 6, 2011

This week, we present Sean Parker, a brilliant entrepreneur and visionary; the co-founder of Napster and Plaxo ; and the former President of Facebook. The product was basically this junk heap of bad design that persisted for many, many years.” (at at 20:52) “[Facebook] was a real long shot.

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www.humbledmba.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Facebook wasnt the first to social networking, Google wasnt the first to search, YouTube wasnt the first to video, yada yada. I co-founded FlightCaster. Peter David responded: Inspired by this post, I wrote a blog post about stereotypic founder personalities. First mover advantage is just silliness. It rarely helps.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

In the last five years, there’s been this sort of acknowledgment of the consumerization of the enterprise, which is consumer product development, design methods applied to business software, of which SaaS and cloud and all these things are examples. Previously, Andreessen developed Mosaic and co-founded Netscape.

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