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). I thought I’d revisit it and share the story… First, you have to rewind mentally to early 2003. link] leehower.
Reid Hoffman
MARCH 19, 2019
O’Reilly unwittingly illustrates this point by telling the story of Sunil Paul, a friend and a successful serial entrepreneur who filed a patent on the core elements of GPS-enabled ride-hailing in 2000. Yet despite literally patenting ride-hailing in 2000, his own venture, Sidecar, lost out to the more aggressive scaling of Uber and Lyft.
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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. Coupled with my participating preferred from 1999 and 2000 I had more than $55 million of liquidation preferences. I took money with a 3x participating preferred liquidation preference with 8% compounded interest annually.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 24, 2012
It’s far more complicated right now to keep a bad experience from hurting your business, viral marketing can fire back. Serban Enache is the CEO of Dreamstime , the stock photography site he founded in 2004. Businesses will have to perform at maximum, avoiding mistakes at all costs before they happen.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 3, 2011
They realized for them this was dumb because people didn’t want to use up their credits so viral adoption wasn’t happening quickly enough. How has the viral coefficient been for you? Gregg gave us specifics on how viral adoption has worked. The viral adoption went to 15-20 per share action.
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.
Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
JUNE 19, 2010
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. It made this site very sticky and it grew organically through viral word-of-mouth as a result of doing that. Attract more sponsors. And I didn’t learn this lesson myself.
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