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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. 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).

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The ?PC? Era Finally Arrives ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

What we refer to as the PC era (the ’80s, ’90s, and early 2000′s) was not just the desktop phase era but more accurately a desktop corporate computing era. It was only in 2000 that a majority of of US homes had a computer. In the ’80s a home computer was the preserve of wealthy and upper middle class families.

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My new fascination with Podcasts

VC Cafe

It is often available for subscription, so that new episodes are automatically downloaded via web syndication to the user’s own local computer, mobile application, or portable media player. The James Altucher Show by Stansberry Radio Network on Apple Podcasts. The third wave of podcasting. Podcasts have been around for some time.

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My fascination with Podcasts

VC Cafe

It is often available for subscription, so that new episodes are automatically downloaded via web syndication to the user’s own local computer, mobile application, or portable media player. The James Altucher Show by Stansberry Radio Network on Apple Podcasts. The third wave of podcasting. Podcasts have been around for some time.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

It possesses a strong corporate base, talented workforce, and a vast network of nationally ranked universities, startup development organizations and innovation-minded companies to support a robust tech ecosystem,” said Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner. In 2000 or 2010, it made sense to build in San Francisco. all Bay Area firms?—?

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The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

On the IT side of VC investing, we’ve seen countless waves crest and fall… mainframes to minicomputer/workstation, workstation to PC, copper to optical networking, client/server software to cloud, the fabless semiconductor model, magnetic tape to hard drive, etc. What’s Your Favorite Future?

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The 99 Investor Problem

VC Adventure

Lifting the number of investors to 2000 seemed to make sense. We structure our investment in companies via an LLC that has all the individual FG Angels syndicate members in it. At this point we have 217 backers in our syndicate, so with us each company would end up having 218 separate investors if we didn’t use the LLC.

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