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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

A lot of people ask me what it was like raising the Series A round for LinkedIn back in 2003. I thought I’d revisit it and share the story… First, you have to rewind mentally to early 2003. Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002.

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20 Most Influential Graphic Design Companies From Around the World

crowdSPRING Blog

Graphic design is a notoriously competitive field and it can be tough for companies to stand out. But, at least twenty graphic design firms from around the world have proven to be the best in their field, with gorgeous portfolios filled with impressive clients and prominent design campaigns. Frog Design. MetaDesign.

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

alexpoole.info

User experience design and research. Case study: Icon design. Back in 1998 when Times New Roman was still widely used on the web, my then boss made sure we always designed our web sites with Arial, as she hated the look of serif fonts on the web. Bix, 2002). Alex Poole. Site français. Skip to content. Deliverables.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

He then worked in consulting which gave him a broad base of business experience working with the newspaper, cable, and advertising industries. In 2002 after exiting his second company he was attracted to the variety of being a VC. In 2003 one of their first investments was Qiigo, Mike Yavondite’s company. 9:30 – 11:30).

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35 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

When we started our company in 2002 we decided that Sonjara would make a great name for our company or product; meaningful and unusual, as well as easy to pronounce and spell. As I looked at my competition it felt as though each advertising law firm created advertisements that seemed very self-centered. Image Credit: Keval Baxi.

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The Most Challenging Part of Becoming a Freelance Developer.

Software By Rob

My Experience Back in 2002/2003 I spent hours writing a sales letter and emailing it to 15 local design firms, offering my services as an outsourced development staff (I coded in PHP,NET and Java at the time).

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Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned

om.co

I had been writing GigaOM (the blog) since December 2001, but in 2003, I started working on a piece for Business 2.0 In the early days, my belief was that blogs (or as I called them micro-pubs back in 2002) would grow really fast and it would allow me to aggregate large subsets of audiences around specific niches. STARTING IT UP.

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