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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

The terms and valuation for both offers were comparable and when the team debated which path to choose, we all agreed both firms would have made good partners. round which closed in November 2003, and the pre-money valuation between $10 million and $15 million. It was a pretty good valuation for the time. It was a $4.7M

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Why I F **g Hate Unicorns and the Culture They Breed

Both Sides of the Table

Not the successful companies themselves but the entire b t culture of swash-buckling startups who define themselves by hitting some magical $1 billion valuation number and the financiers who back them irrespective of metrics that justify it. It seemed like a message in a bottle opened from a shipwreck in 1999.

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