Agile VC
MAY 26, 2011
This also appears as a guest post at Fortune’s Term Sheet. is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. Facebook doesn’t exist, even as a walled-garden college social network (Mark Zuckerberg was part way through his freshman year at Harvard). How To Think About The Future.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 19, 2009
My blog linked to Brad Feld’s blog because I was so grateful for his series on term sheets and he was one of the biggest reasons that as a VC I felt compelled to blog. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. That changed very quickly.
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This is going to be BIG.
SEPTEMBER 30, 2012
The other day, I noticed an eye-catching headline: "Internet Funding Boom Ends as Fast as It Began". How else can you explain this headline matching a story about a professional social network still trying to explore revenues raising $17mm on an $80mm valuation? Perhaps I need to rethink that.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 14, 2012
…” I’ll write soon on my views of why I believe Instagram took off as a social network and what I think comes next. Instagram happens to be one of the few social networks I regularly use along with Twitter. Just checked their balance sheet. Oh, I know – we’ll just ask them for cash!
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 31, 2011
But we had a term sheet !!! It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. It’s a very tough decision to walk away from a senior role at what I consider one of the most successful tech companies of Internet era. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0,
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 22, 2011
But we had a term sheet !!! It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. It’s a very tough decision to walk away from a senior role at what I consider one of the most successful tech companies of Internet era. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0,
reidhoffman.org
NOVEMBER 12, 2013
It has many stylistic errors — and a few substantive ones, too — that I would now change having learned more, but I realized that it still provides useful insights for entrepreneurs and startup participants outside of the Greylock network, particularly across three areas of interest: how entrepreneurs should approach the pitch process.
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