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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

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Btw, here’s our startup [link] We are bringing yield management to the restaurant industry. This is my 2nd time trying this, first time was in 1999. Still, the job of simultaneously raising money and managing a fast-growing company strains every sinew. A lot has changed. link] leehower.

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Alibaba S-1: Sizing Up A Giant

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Alibaba’s Genesis Alibaba was founded in 1999 by Jack Ma and 17 other colleagues, and like most startups they began as a small group working out of Ma’s apartment in Hangzhou. I’ll first start with a brief background on the genesis of Alibaba and a top level sizing of the company and its underlying businesses. ==.

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