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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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How The 5G Revolution Emerged And How It Will Give Business A Boost

YoungUpstarts

The introduction of 3G in between 1998 and 2003 brought 200 Kbps speeds, four times faster than 3G. Rooted in a 2002 Pentagon initiative to replace traditional telephony with a VoIP communications infrastructure, 4G was designed to address the growing need for bandwidth to support the increasing number of mobile device users in the 2000s.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

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. Mark and Richard go on to talk about platforms, timing, and simple reiterative product design. How did you get into VC? (9:30 9:30 – 11:30). 1:04:00-1:06).

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One More Time: No NDAs

dashes.com

If you can, design for circumstances where, once youre ready to start talking about your idea, youre encouraging people to "disclose" your efforts. By way of context: It took me 28 years (from summer fo 1975 til December of 2003) and at least four close encounters to see what seems to me so obvious after the fact. � Howard Aiken.

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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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The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

Philip Bouchard : You’ve started teaching at Berkeley since 2002, Columbia in 2003 and at Stanford since 2011. My contribution has been, “Why don’t we design classes more closely modeled to what innovators and entrepreneurs actually do.” Innovators are not entrepreneurs. Building an entrepreneurship ecosystem.

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