1999 2003 Management Revenue 
Agile VC
MAY 26, 2011
A lot of people ask me what it was like raising the Series A round for LinkedIn back in 2003. I thought I’d revisit it and share the story… First, you have to rewind mentally to early 2003. Ok, now you have the context for early 2003. He provided our initial seed funding to launch the website publicly on May 5, 2003.
Austin Startup
NOVEMBER 16, 2010
Over a 25 year career, Baughman has gained experience in leading worldwide sales organizations, brings expertise in full life cycle product management, proven revenue creation and growth management including taking a start up from zero to $1.6B, and shepherding companies through all phases from start up launch to IPO to acquisition.
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YoungUpstarts
JUNE 28, 2012
chief, came to the rescue in 2003 and helped turn the company around for the better. Revenues have continued to increase every year and investors couldn’t be happier with what brave Mr. Google is one of the largest companies in the world and its founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, are some of the richest entrepreneurs to date.
View from Seed
JUNE 17, 2015
My first startup job was as an early employee at PayPal, where I took a job at the end of ‘1999 and started a few months later in 2000. I started off as a product manager and while I never actually slept over at the office, there were frequently late nights. When we started LinkedIn , it was a similar situation.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 27, 2010
My original post was directed at hiring managers. My view still stands – for many hiring managers a large factor in looking through resumes of somebody who is 30+ and has never worked somewhere for more than 18 months will be the job hopping element. I learned how to better run a product management process.
Hearpreneur
JANUARY 7, 2017
At the same time it seemed that whenever I would have a conversation with a friend, family member, colleague, manager, executive–you name it!–about I have encountered numerous companies with bad customer service, or bad financial management, or unprofessional stuff, you name it. Thanks to Young Lee, The Flame Broiler ! #51
Ben's Blog
JULY 16, 2013
Perhaps you are caught in the “Series A crunch” or perhaps you are a consumer company and expected that you would be valued on users rather than revenue like the last time. 3/31/1999: 49.7. 3/31/2003: 44.6. If your managers intentionally or accidentally lied, then you will need to address that too. How could this be?
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