Agile VC
MAY 26, 2011
Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. conference happened at the end of 2004). Our growth started in Silicon Valley and our users were still predominantly from the tech world for the first year or two.
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 7, 2008
It was fall 2004, and the presidential election was in full swing. I too would be concerned about false negatives, but perhaps this strategy could be integrated into a broader market research strategy that included user engagement, viral marketing, etc which would all be quantifiable under the Google analytics. Thanks for the insight!
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reidhoffman.org
NOVEMBER 12, 2013
What I’ve honorably been able to do, however, is share the deck I used to pitch LinkedIn to Greylock for a Series B investment back in 2004. the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. In 2004, the consumer internet was just beginning to rebound. In 2004, investors regained interest in the consumer internet again.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 2, 2009
But more spend = more viral opps = more revenue down the road. >50% of our revenue in now viral. Ironically our business started to perform very will by 2004 but by then management had lost the dream of a huge upside. I’m assuming this in Silicon Valley, LA or similar locations.
Reid Hoffman
MARCH 19, 2019
The founder of early internet startup Freeloader (acquired for $38 million in 1996) and anti-spam company Brightmail (acquired for $370 million in 2004), Paul went on to pioneer the ride-hailing space. Yet despite literally patenting ride-hailing in 2000, his own venture, Sidecar, lost out to the more aggressive scaling of Uber and Lyft.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
There was a backlash against the Plaxo spamming yet it paved the way for everybody who came after them to get users to drive viral adoption and we’d throw up our arms and say, “oh boy, here goes another social network that my friends are going to spam me about&# mentality that made it acceptable for everybody who came afterward.
mashable.com
JUNE 11, 2013
In fact, recent research shows that 75% of startups fail (based on a study of 2,000 startups that received VC funding from 2004 to 2010). Assuming Virality. "A I have news for you: Theyre not coming and youre not going to go viral. Services dont spontaneously go viral. Some startups are destined for failure.
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