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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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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

“Rare is the business that has a formal disaster plan, let alone one that covers a global Black Swan event.” In 2002, McKinsey published a study of 1,000 U.S. The questions that clients ask in the coming months are going to be more focused on business results and less on trends and vanity metrics. Tim Stewart, trsdigital.

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24 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Industries That Are Ripe For Disruption

Hearpreneur

6- The global automotive. The global automotive industry is going through an enormous disruption these days. The global automakers and suppliers will be adapting their business models accordingly, forming new partnerships and investing in new technologies. Thanks to Parker Lawrence, AlltimePower ! #6- Photo Credit: Michael Lowe.

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19 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

NorthSide Metrics is a digital marketing agency based in the Chicagoland area. The colors + location were combined with my love of data to bring in the metrics. I had a few variations of the name and after asking 3-5 people which they liked or hated I ended up settling in on NorthSide Metrics. Thanks to Ebooks4fashion ! #6-

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The Yo-Yo Life of a Tech Entrepreneur – A Cautionary Tale

Both Sides of the Table

Of course articles like these are going to inflame people because not everybody who is running their own business (or aspires to) wants to believe that you need to go all out to compete and win on a global scale. But … global tech does require an absolute, singular commitment level. Our first big institutional round was $16.5

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Cracking The Code: Death Sentence for SaaS.or for Lawson?

Cracking the Code

2002, the stock price went from $17.5 SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Global warming: a plague for humanity? Global Warning! He should have invested in Lawson obviously… I could not track back their stock price in 1998 when NetSuite was launched, but since Jan. per share to $8.0 How to fish a salmon.

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

And now all of a sudden you have got this global market of all these early adopters that have smartphones connected to the Internet, and they can just pick up their things and run with them. Larry Ellison in 2002 came out and gave a speech and said the correct model for enterprise software, enterprise computing, will last for 1,000 years.