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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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10 of the Most Successful Investors of the Last 10 Years

The Startup Magazine

The global financial crisis started in 2007 and it went on for much of 2008. Zhitao runs Hangzhou Liaison Interactive, which is a Chinese technology-based company founded in July 2002. Holmes founded a company known as Theranos in 2003 when she was just 19 years old. Investments from capital markets to real estate plummeted.

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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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Lean Business: Lessons from A-Rod

crowdSPRING Blog

But Clinton proceeded top spend the next decade of his life communicating his values, performing good works, and rehabilitating his public image and today he is a beloved figure in American (and global) life. As more and more negative news unfolded around A-Rod his choices always seems to be poor ones.

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

He was named among the World’s Top 100 Young Innovators by MIT Technology Review and received the TR100 award in 2002. Previously, he was Vice President of Global Business Development for Massive, Inc., Since 2003, Rumson has helped clients invest over $1.0 Moderator: Robert Savage, CEO, Track.com.

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The Rise of the Secondary Market for Emerging Growth Equities– Necessary But Insufficient

Pascal's View

2002: Sarbanes-Oxley creates more friction for companies that want to go public, but likely much less of a factor than people think, by imposing accounting and compliance costs for small companies that easily exceed $2 million per year. cents or 6.25 In my view, this is a myopic analysis for one simple reason.

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5 Questions for a CEO: Simms Jenkins, BrightWave Marketing

Jeff Hilimire

I started in my guest room in Q4, 2002 which was a brutal time in our economy following the dot com busts. I incorporated BrightWave in February 2003, so we just celebrated our 11 th birthday which is kind of hard to believe. I don’t have the classic story of having an amazing business plan or even an entrepreneurial itch to scratch.