Agile VC
MAY 26, 2011
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). And obviously all the liq prefs went away in the IPO when pref stock converted to common. link] leehower.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
The Past (1985-2002). Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king. MySpace would liked to have owned YouTube but didn’t have the public stock valuation to purchase them at the price that Google did. Social Networks: Past, Present & Future. The Present Era.
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abovethecrowd.com
OCTOBER 17, 2013
Awareness of the service was clearly spreading virally through word of mouth. I began covering Dell as an equity analyst for First Boston in early 1994, and over the six years that followed, Dell’s stock would appreciate 100x; a remarkable and perhaps unprecedented run of value creation.
Austin Startup
APRIL 26, 2020
And, as a result, they lost almost 90% of their market value in a little over three years, dropping from around $7 billion in value as of Q2–2002 (only one quarter prior to Netflix going public) to their current value of $0.73 Blockbuster’s stock rose from a low of around $3.8/share They didn’t listen to the power of word of mouth.
Cracking the Code
SEPTEMBER 2, 2008
He should have invested in Lawson obviously… I could not track back their stock price in 1998 when NetSuite was launched, but since Jan. 2002, the stock price went from $17.5 Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. per share to $8.0 Software 2.0: How the use of internet is transform. ► 03/25 - 04/01. (1).
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 28, 2020
I'm a biologist and a member of the infectious disease division here at UC San Diego and have been involved in viral research, particularly RNA viruses, since HIV came along in the 80s. At the time, virology was not thought to be very interesting because we didn't have good ways to diagnose specific viral infections except antibody responses.
blog.expensify.com
APRIL 24, 2012
Look at what happened with Microsoft’s attempt to get the London Stock Exchange onto.NET – a total failure. But I admit, I started programming assembly at 11 and then did a lot of C++ before moving on to.NET in 2002. We wrote all of our software in VB6 and then ported it to.NET in 2001/2002. Patrick Smacchiauiul.
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