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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. To give you a sense, for 2002 the entire US online ad market was $6B and had shrunk year over year (it was $25B+ for 2010). Is it a case of just design it, code it, build it, deploy it, trademark it, copywright it and then go for funding? .

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Our Investment in Cloze ? AGILEVC

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I’m obviously biased, but I still think LinkedIn is an awesome platform today and they continue to innovate, grow, and evolve nearly 10 years after we started the company at the end of 2002. Also the fact that it “is designed from the get go around mobile usage in addition to the desktop web” is a huge advantage.

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