article thumbnail

New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’ | Xconomy

www.xconomy.com

New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’. Here’s some big news for San Diego’s innovation economy: There’s a new venture capital firm in town—and its investment methodology represents a fundamentally different approach to the conventional business model for venture investing.

article thumbnail

LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs

reidhoffman.org

Friendster was at its height, strongly battling MySpace after raising its premium round from Benchmark and Kleiner in the fall of 2003. Friendster raised a big round in 2003; MySpace started gaining traction. In old-school resume databases, most talented professionals didn’t want or need to participate.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Moneyball Design: Why the Research and Data Analysis is Critical to Getting Your Prospects to Convert

ConversionXL

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game is a book by Michael Lewis, published in 2003. “ They measured every single thing ” by developing one massive database of key metrics. Good design is problem solving.”. – The Art & Science of Web Design by Jeffrey Veen. What’s Moneyball? No gut feelings, pure data.

Design 100
article thumbnail

From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

The timing is perfect, there is more than a little overlap with Vivek Wadhwa’s guest post on venture capital earlier today. also, just to clarify, the first idea we worked on that we called “meebo&# back in 2003 was my idea. As Seth said, the first meebo idea he came up with was in 2003. Johnny Good post.