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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. Ok, now you have the context for early 2003.

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Stitch Fix: Reinventing Retail Through Personalization

abovethecrowd.com

Awareness of the service was clearly spreading virally through word of mouth. Also, many of these companies were built with heavy doses of advertising spend, a clear red-flag in our book. For starters, the business metrics are quite compelling. Lastly, I asked a few women that were not customers to try the service.

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Welcome to the Widget Wars

Eric Friedman

Google also has widget advertising called Gadget Ads. It shows the potential of widgets as an advertising platform, as well as the importance of them as a new channel. In most cases the metric of success varies greatly from widget to widget. According to my own timeline, I would say 2002. The Opera Browser has widgets.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

This is why I loathe interviews – way too many idiots advertising for programmers out there. This is after Microsoft spent millions and millions advertising their “victory” in all those “Highly Reliable Times” ads in the trade rags. March 26, 2011 at 8:53 pm. Kind of like the KIN, and now WP7.

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