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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. One partnership was clearly very divided and a vocal minority of GPs thought consumer internet companies were a massive waste of time and money.

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet. I looked at the future predictions for “modem speed” (as I called it back then, today we’d called it internet connection speed or bandwidth). Napster arrived in June, 1999. But I digress…).

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In Spite of Avatar, The Movie Business is Dead

Growthink Blog

Or will the convergence of content, internet, mobile applications, games and social media be the onrushing asteroids that will soon destroy the movie dinosaurs? How about Internet Video? revenues from internet video services spanning user-generated content to television shows and movies will exceed $7 billion this year.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

This is my recap of what stood out to me this year and what I’m looking forward to in 2012 — we are only in the beginning of many revolutions. Mobile advertising became more targeted and user friendly by adapting to the small screen — but advertisers are slow to adopt , with much upside still to come.

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What if it’s 1996, not 1999?

Seeing Both Sides

But if that observation led them to refrain from investing in the Internet sector, they would have missed one of the most stunning legal creations of wealth in history. The Internet bull market continued to run for four more years after the Open Market IPO, finally ending in the spring of 2000. This IPO and others like it (e.g.,

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

But in 2012 a visit to any major college in America will show you the massive increase in aspirations of our young talent to become the next Mark Zuckerberg and build a future Facebook. So it is unsurprising that an over-funding environment and the commensurate returns hangover would have lasted until about – well – 2012.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

For example, it still heavily relies on print advertising (bridal magazines) and brides were limited to only shopping in brick and mortar stores to find their wedding attire. I would love logging in to Second Life to sell marketing and advertising to businesses trying to make it in a virtual setting. Image Credit: Brittany Haas.