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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 Reed Hastings’ Facebook Status Update Landed Netflix in SEC’s Crosshairs

Gust

The first question is a fact-based analysis that involves reviewing Netflix’ public disclosures up until that time, determining the effects on revenue and earnings of the growth in hours streamed, etc. Compressing 80 years of history into a paragraph, securities regulation here is fundamentally a disclosure-based system.

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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. Even less does it mean high transaction volume or revenue. ad spend going down by 12% and agencies losing between 3 and 30% of revenue.

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What Affects Nonprofit Executive Compensation?

Board Effect

To preserve the integrity of nonprofits, the IRS set new rules for nonprofit executive compensation in 2002. In general, nonprofit executive committees should focus more on social outcomes related to the mission over financial metrics. Nonprofits usually depend on a few different sources of revenue to keep them going.

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Stitch Fix: Reinventing Retail Through Personalization

abovethecrowd.com

While I am extremely proud of that team’s accomplishments (the parent company recombined Nordstrom.com in 2002 and the direct division now has revenue of over $1.25B and is the fastest growing unit inside of Nordstrom ), I built a healthy respect for the complexities and difficulties of managing women’s fashion inventory.

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#KillerSaaSPitch in 10 Words (Part 2)

Cracking the Code

When Elon Musk received $200 million from the proceeds of the PayPal acquisition in 2002, he re-invested everything to build the next big thing: $100 million in SpaceX and $100 million in Tesla. In other words, there are universal metrics that smart investors require to make investing decisions. Talk about passion and commitment!

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24 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Industries That Are Ripe For Disruption

Hearpreneur

This means that creating a simplified and easy-to-navigate software that allows real-time metrics and communication to be had in a professional management environment is currently an industry for the taking. The SARS outbreak in 2002 leads to the tremendous growth of online marketplace platforms in China. 16- Coffee.