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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

The IPO Bubble – August 1995 – March 2000 In August 1995 Netscape went public, and the world of start ups turned upside down. Yahoo would hit $104/share in March 2000 with a market cap of $104 billion.) Tech acquisitions went crazy at the same time the IPO market did. So what’s left?

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

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). Mostly smartphones + restaurateurs attitude towards viewing the internet as a customer acquisition tool. A lot has changed.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

“TripAdvisor is to travel reviews what Kleenex is to tissues.”. . Founded in 2000 by Stephen Kaufer and Langley Steinert, Boston-based TripAdvisor is a travel website that provides reviews and other information for consumers about travel destinations around the world. Big Data meets travel…in 2000.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

Computer Software. Media & Marketing. Small Business. More Industries. Accounting. Advertising. Broadcasting & Entertainment. Computer Hardware. Consumer Products. Defense & Aerospace. Financial Services & Insurance. Food & Tobacco. Hospitality. Industrial Goods & Services. Marketing & Strategy. Media Agencies. Metals & Mining. NAME Comcast.

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From Loyalty Programs To Fan Clubs, A Paradigm Shift

YoungUpstarts

My company won the ROI of The Year award from The Banker magazine in 2004, something I was very proud of. Local businesses in Singapore report up to 5x increase in repeat business , up to 7x increase in fan acquisition rates and 10x increase in word of mouth. In 2000, we launched a loyalty program for a bank in Turkey, Akbank.

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Are Twitter and Facebook Killing Blogs?

Software By Rob

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Memorable Postcard from a New Mechanic My Report on StackOverflow DevDays → Are Twitter and Facebook Killing Blogs? And that’s why now is a fantastic time to start a blog.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

In 2004 I began blogging. I got out of the university in early 2000 and I never went on to a full-time job, so it’s always been an online business for me. If you decide to follow a blog acquisition strategy, you’re not going to write the blog yourself, not very likely. I like to write, but not that much.