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The Great Coding School Rollup of 2015

Feld Thoughts

I know several people who have gone through the with great success and gone on to have excellent software development jobs. Companies were being bought (and valued) at 10x forward revenue only to be valued at between 0.5x revenue several years later. Many are immersive and include internships. A few are longer than 12 weeks.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. Ah, but today’s Internet companies have real revenue! That happened a lot in 2002 and again in 2008. That asset class need not represent the broader market.

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Growing Your Audience (And Your Revenue) With A Book

Duct Tape Marketing

Growing Your Audience (And Your Revenue) With A Book written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Matt Briel In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Matt Briel. So when Lulu started in 2002, so about 20 years ago, we just celebrated our 20th anniversary. Thanks, John.

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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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How to Radically Stand Out with Brand Marketing

ConversionXL

In 2002, Elon Musk created Space X. And yet, revenue went up by 45% YoY. Share content exploring what it’s like to work at your organization, such as remote working, away days, professional development programs, etc. They’re also great at shouting about their people to, again, develop employee advocates. Image source.

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Is your startup suffering from a dysfunctional team? then this book is for you

VC Cafe

In his second book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (originally published in 2002), Lencioni adopts the winning formula of sharing management/coaching advice in the form of a fable/story, which sucks you into the story and its cast of characters while delivering key principles, many borrowed from team sports.

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Cash control during these strange times

Berkonomics

And these are indeed strange times, especially if you haven’t lived through 2000-2002 and 2007-2008 recessions and difficulty in finding money from banks and investors. And profits from the sale of the product create cash for development of the next product. Some of us worry over how to greatly increase revenues.