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How to find that first big customer

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Freshman Salesman writes: I’ve read somewhere in your blog about how you had a very large organisation as the first customer for your software. But this was 2002 when AdWords was affordable and I had no competitors, so you can’t repeat that — it doesn’t matter how I did it. It wasn’t true for me either.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. If you came here via a direct link you might want to check out the more detailed full version on my blog, which is here. The Past (1985-2002). Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king.

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The Guide to Your Nonprofit Whistleblower Policy

Board Effect

Whistleblower policies date back to 2002 with the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act , which came about as a result of corporations that misled their investors relating to fraudulent financial reporting practices. A whistleblower policy is more than a core policy for nonprofit organizations.

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How is the VC Asset Class Doing?

View from Seed

In looking at the data, it’s interesting to note that the TVPI for funds from 2002-2006 is pretty weak. On top of this, the uncertainty about where we are in the economic cycle casts further doubt about the ultimate performance of these funds.

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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. To give you a sense, for 2002 the entire US online ad market was $6B and had shrunk year over year (it was $25B+ for 2010). is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. Ok, now you have the context for early 2003.

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How to Find the Time to Accomplish Anything

Feld Thoughts

You can follow him at @hertling or on his blog, williamhertling.com. In the last five years, I’ve managed to find the time to write, publish and promote multiple books, including two award-winning bestsellers , develop a web application, maintain a blog, and present at conferences. My blog posts, in turn, get repurposed into books.

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What Startups Need to Know About Exit Strategies

Up and Running

In 2002 I provided an exit for VCs who had invested in Palo Alto Software a few years earlier. The post What Startups Need to Know About Exit Strategies appeared first on Bplans Blog. As a founding director of Borland International, I had significant shares in that company when it went public in 1986, and that gave me an exit.