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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). We’re a how-to site and community for small business on marketing. . We have a long way to go baby!

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How to Radically Stand Out with Brand Marketing

ConversionXL

In 2002, Elon Musk created Space X. Take search-oriented creative agency Rise at Seven. Jeff Bezos’s private space technology company Blue Origin was founded back in 2000. You’d think that no one could recreate a product so sophisticated and advanced as space rockets, right? With enough resources, products can always be copied.

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26 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Favorite Songs to Get Them Motivated

Hearpreneur

Thanks to Doug Seville, DSML Executive Search ! #2- I’ve built my business from the ground up and there were/are many times where you relate to what Billy Beane went through in the 2002 season. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. When discouraged I would play this song in my head. 2- Born to Run.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

In 2002, McKinsey published a study of 1,000 U.S. echoes Labay’s sentiment: Search habits change. Managers can defy old mind-sets and creatively search for superior solutions. But your community does matter. What the big studies have shown. companies covering the period 1982–99, which included a recession during 1990–91.

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The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

Philip Bouchard : You’ve started teaching at Berkeley since 2002, Columbia in 2003 and at Stanford since 2011. Today the capstone class is most often experiential, team-based, hands on, focused around the search for a repeatable and scalable business model. Innovators are not entrepreneurs. Building an entrepreneurship ecosystem.

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9 Big Businesses That Began In College

YoungUpstarts

Since 2002, Insomnia Cookies has grown into a large corporation, with its headquarters located in New York City and 20 branches in college communities across the country. Stanford University computer science grad students Larry Page and Sergy Brin created a search engine called “BackRub” not as a business venture, but as a Ph.D.

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How To Create A Brand Name For Your Company

Duct Tape Marketing

Is it gonna cause you linguistic problems in other, you know, not just other countries, but even locally, if you have a Spanish speaking community in your, uh, city yeah. And then after that, you still have to do a deeper legal search, usually that you've done in that preliminary stage. I gave it about 10 minutes of thought.

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