Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
What this meant for entrepreneurs and VCs was a bit more complex– the IPO market was all but closed (with the Google IPO in 2004 as a brilliant exception), but it was possible find a buyer for your company. My experience of 2001-2004 is very remote from what you are describing. tags: vc entrepreneurship) [.] carry on reading.
Duct Tape Marketing
MAY 4, 2022
And that was, you know, 2004, 2005 was, I was realizing that it was no longer about working harder. And I was the sixth member of our sixth member leadership team to get replaced. You know, we replaced every other leader of the leadership team. And then secondly was the text. It was about working smarter.
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Agile VC
MARCH 13, 2012
While it was still a college-focused SNS, Facebook of course launched in 2004 and there were plenty of other examples of social networking already… Friendster (2002), LinkedIn (2003), MySpace (2003), Orkut (2004). It was filed in 2005 and issued in 2010 which means there was a good deal of prior art around SNS before Yahoo filed.
This is going to be BIG.
MAY 9, 2022
Even after the worst period for VC in history—VC funds were back to market in 2004, no more than four years after the crash, right in line with the historical pace to get back at the game of investing. It was super hard to get any kind of financing before, and it will remain so. The incentive is too strong. You should be all good.
Scalable Startup
AUGUST 26, 2014
Red Hat was one of the first of these types of companies bridging open source with big finance, leveraging Linux support into a profitable business, also leveraging the enterprise. It gained recognition during the 2004 presidential campaign when Howard Dean’s IT director decided to use it as a platform for community and campaigning.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 23, 2013
Viljakainen, founder of No Fear Community and author of “ No Fear: Business Leadership for the Digital Age “. In larger organizations the work involves many leadership challenges; the biggest being the ability to identify the hungriest frontline teams. What demands do you set for both business and leadership growth?
reidhoffman.org
NOVEMBER 12, 2013
What I’ve honorably been able to do, however, is share the deck I used to pitch LinkedIn to Greylock for a Series B investment back in 2004. the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. In 2004, the consumer internet was just beginning to rebound. Second, understand the broader financing climate. Reid Hoffman.
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