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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

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AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. 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). Salesforce.com is a startup with 76,000 subscribers (over 2.1M

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Yahoo! vs Facebook: Lame Lawsuit, Good Timing ? AGILEVC

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AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. I have some limited experience in dealing with patents though, both from my time as a VC and also back in my own startup days. owns a bunch of patents around email, IM, etc), and yes E) social networking. Regarding social networking, Yahoo! March 13, 2012.

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Our Investment in Cloze ? AGILEVC

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AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Cloze is helping outbound professionals understand and utilize their professional network more comprehensively than ever before. We amass all of this information in our emails, social networks, smartphone address books, and other software tools (e.g. Our Investment in Cloze.

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