Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

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). Yes… he was a very successful PayPal exec and previously co-founder & VP Product of SocialNet.

Term Sheet 178

Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Awareness of the service was clearly spreading virally through word of mouth. Most importantly, I became convinced that Stitch Fix was one of those rare companies where the unique product advantage also contributes to a unique business model advantage. Lastly, I asked a few women that were not customers to try the service.

eCommerce 62

eCommerce Technical Review North America San Francisco 62

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Being enterprise scale means that your representatives have regular dialogue at CXO or at least VP level with Global 2000 accounts are they are bringing in millions of revenue from those accounts every year. The sailboat startups don't invent a product out of pure imagination. Learn the rule of 3. So VCs will need to invest.

Software 127

Software Startup Architecture Bootstrapping 127

Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 11, 2015

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. It’s very important to explain in detail how this engine is designed and how you can scale while maintaining quality and productivity.

San Francisco 48

San Francisco Churn Rate Silicon Valley Engineer 48

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Past (1985-2002). billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king. 18 months ago 25% of all pitches to me were ideas for how to build products around Twitter’s API. The Present Era.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

The Deutsche Bank report has a very interesting chart on the topic presenting the Free Cash Flow margins vs. the revenue growth four years post IPO for select software leaders: As you can see, with 20% Free Cash Flow margin and a 50% growth rate, Salesforce is well positioned in the pack! He accidentally funded the CRM product and Netsuite.

Software Review 48

Software Review Software Technical Review Cloud 48

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

At crowdSPRING we talk a great deal about how we can leverage our limited marketing resources to drive traffic and revenues and build strong community. Other tactics leverage partnerships with other businesses to create mutual value and introduce our respective communities to one another’s services or product offering.

Viral 107

Viral Campaign Small Business Guerilla 107