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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

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Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. Yes… he was a very successful PayPal exec and previously co-founder & VP Product of SocialNet. Not long after the product launch we began the initial conversations with VCs for a Series A round. link] leehower.

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The ?PC? Era Finally Arrives ? AGILEVC

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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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Playing Startup

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My first startup job was as an early employee at PayPal, where I took a job at the end of ‘1999 and started a few months later in 2000. I started off as a product manager and while I never actually slept over at the office, there were frequently late nights.

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Playing Startup

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My first startup job was as an early employee at PayPal, where I took a job at the end of ‘1999 and started a few months later in 2000. I started off as a product manager and while I never actually slept over at the office, there were frequently late nights.

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The End of ?Internet? Companies ? AGILEVC

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We don’t think of Apple as a “chip” company even though literally every product they make only exists because it’s chock full of semiconductors. Now we only think of chip companies in the narrow sense of semiconductor manufacturers like Intel.

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Urbanization of Startups ? AGILEVC

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The kinds of places where you have to sign an NDA when you walk in the lobby… When I lived and worked in the bay area (2000-2005) virtually all the startups were down on the peninsula somewhere.