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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

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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. Ok, now you have the context for early 2003. He provided our initial seed funding to launch the website publicly on May 5, 2003.

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Students Show The Way For Technology Innovation At Microsoft Imagine Cup 2012

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(Team AlphaWaves from Singapore, who will represent the country in the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2012 worldwide finals in Sydney this July). Starting from some 1,000 registrants from 25 countries in 2003, the competition has spawned many a young technology entrepreneur. In a global battle of smarts, only the toughest survive.

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20 Most Influential Graphic Design Companies From Around the World

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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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The App is Dead (OK Not Really, But The Browser Is Back)

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By Richard MacManus / May 10, 2012 05:30 AM / View Comments. SAY Medias Alex Schleifer is the lead designer for ReadWriteWebs re-design (currently in process) and his quote above captures why mobile websites are enjoying a renaissance. But in 2012, more often than not it can be done on the Web. Subscribe to ReadWriteWeb.

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Getting Better At Email

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To give you an example of that noise, brands, social networks and other organizations sent a record number of marketing messages in 2012, up 19% on 2011. One new and free solution is theSwizzle , which was designed for the mutual benefit of consumers and marketers alike. The rest is just digital noise.

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PC For Rent – How To Make Money Searching For Extraterrestrial Intelligence

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Folding@home is one of the most advanced and powerful projects of its kind: it utilizes the computational capacities not only of PCs and smartphones, like most distributed computing projects do (in 2013, BOINC made an Android-based mobile app ), but that of PlayStation consoles as well (although, in 2012 the collaboration with Sony came to an end).

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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’ | Xconomy

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XSITE 2012: The Xconomy Summit on Innovation, Technology & Entrepreneurship. © 2007-2012, Xconomy, Inc. Site produced by Andrew Koyfman with design from Rob Hunter. Biologist, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Steve Seitz. of Computer Science and Engineering, Univ. of Washington. View All Xconomy Events ›.