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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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Cause Marketing on Ice

crowdSPRING Blog

Right now, today, appearing in virtually every corner of the the internet you can be find my neighbor’s video along with thousands of others and witness one of the most successful, most impressive viral media campaigns of all time. Related posts: 5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!).

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Taking Corporate VC: When It Makes Sense

View from Seed

Banks invested because they wanted access to our large and growing consumer base or to try to catch the lightning in the bottle of our virally growing payments business. . PayPal took on these investors in small part because it gave us an imprimatur in the stodgy and regulated world of financial services.

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10 Tips for Enterprise Software Startups

ReadWriteStart

Bernard is based in New York, was born in Berlin, has lived in and started companies in Asia and Europe as well as America; he is comfortable with globalization. The global economy is currently going through a " perfect storm" of change , so we can expect even more creative destruction than normal. The case study to watch is Yammer.

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Netflix vs. Blockbuster and bad profits (reflections from my Bazaarvoice days)

Austin Startup

We became a global company and it was truly an entrepreneurial dream come true for Brant, our team, and me. And, as a result, they lost almost 90% of their market value in a little over three years, dropping from around $7 billion in value as of Q2–2002 (only one quarter prior to Netflix going public) to their current value of $0.73

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Cracking The Code: Death Sentence for SaaS.or for Lawson?

Cracking the Code

2002, the stock price went from $17.5 Global warming: a plague for humanity? Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Global Warning! He should have invested in Lawson obviously… I could not track back their stock price in 1998 when NetSuite was launched, but since Jan. per share to $8.0 ► 04/08 - 04/15. (1).

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

blog.expensify.com

With population reaching 7B, food shortages around the world, deforestation accelerating global warming — there simply is no way we can continue to increase the carbon foot print and sustain the human species in the next 100-200 years. We wrote all of our software in VB6 and then ported it to.NET in 2001/2002. Michael Chan.

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