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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). 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). Ok, now you have the context for early 2003.

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Does the Size of a VC Fund Matter?

Both Sides of the Table

Some wait 5-7 years but usually this is because it’s proving more difficult to raise a new fund due to market conditions or the lack of returns in their current fund. If the VC your talking to raised its last fund in 2002 then they likely don’t have much fire power for new investments. Why does vintage matter to you?

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A tale of two IPOs

BeyondVC

So while I was at PC Forum, my partner, Ned Carlson, sent me an email on the recent IPO filing of Seven Networks. It seems that the filing for Seven Networks goes against the grain. SEVEN’s software provides secure, real-time access to email and PIM information via a wide variety of mobile devices.”

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A Startup Journey With GrubHub Founder Mike Evans

Duct Tape Marketing

Questions I ask Mike Evans: [1:46] Could you give us a high-level overview of the startup of Grubhub to IPO to what you’re doing now? 12:51] Right up to IPO at which point you quit, which I think some people would actually say, you made it now, why are you quitting? Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please!

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Growing Your Audience (And Your Revenue) With A Book

Duct Tape Marketing

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! It's brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals. We were founded by a gentleman named Bob Young, who was the original co-founder of Red Hat, which is a massive software company. And so he wanted to publish a book.

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information. Michael was the lead research analyst for the IPOs of Internet companies like UUNET, Yahoo!, He has been granted two software patents, and has multiple patents pending.

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Cracking The Code: Death Sentence for SaaS.or for Lawson?

Cracking the Code

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. So where does Salesforces profitability stands today compared to the most successful on premise public software companies? traditional software is like cocaine--youre hooked.