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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. One partnership was clearly very divided and a vocal minority of GPs thought consumer internet companies were a massive waste of time and money. It was a $4.7M

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Asset Management Is A Bizarre Industry Ripe For Disruption

David Teten

I have frequently heard the expression from other investors, “We can put a lot of money to work here.” This is the psychology that drives VCs to load up a company with more capital, rationalizing that $5m at a $20m pre-money valuation is little different than $10m at a $40m pre-money valuation.