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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

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). This is my 2nd time trying this, first time was in 1999. A lot has changed. link] leehower.

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

But back in 1999, a then very young Netflix based in Los Gatos with less than 20 employees, was on the edge of going bust. To be specific, AdWords is currently 16 years old, and last year alone it generated well over $50B in revenue. The combination is amazing. NETFLIX – Kate Arnold.

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