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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round). link] leehower.

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

thebarefootvc

Powered by cell phones and social networking platforms, we saw revolutions taking place, businesses being transformed and our daily lives made more convenient (if we could tear ourselves away from our Facebook and Twitter updates). Universities are also creating more interdisciplinary programs in order to encourage this collaboration.

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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. The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years.

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No Denying Deflation: Will It Eventually Kill Content?

Seeing Both Sides

In the world of the Internet, deflation viewed as a positive force, leading to massive consumer gains. I've been thinking a lot about deflation and its impact on the Internet economy since reading two articles in two different newspapers this last week. How can we reconcile these two competing beliefs?

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How Private Equity Funds Are and Should Be Using Social Media

David Teten

Moreover, some investors use social media specifically to reach out to companies flashing relevant “deal signals” in order to filter the universe of companies. These investors are exploiting the wealth of information about private companies available online, increasingly leaked via social media.

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

And now all of a sudden you have got this global market of all these early adopters that have smartphones connected to the Internet, and they can just pick up their things and run with them. So it would seem like they are an antidote to, or at least less offensive than, social/consumer Internet companies are to the public markets.

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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

Both Sides of the Table

Don’t spend like it’s 1999. Either way, the gridlock that is now the US congress will prevent any real economic responses and it seems likely that this political malaise will last beyond the 2012 election as the Republicans look to make big gains in the 2010 mid-term elections.&#. And Social. It’s too early.

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