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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. 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

YoungUpstarts

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

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Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Model: Not Just For Startups Any More

ReadWriteStart

This no longer the case – the lean startup concept is being embraced by companies large and small, and is now taught at business schools globally. Blank first started piecing together the concept in 2000 and created The Four Steps to the Epiphany in 2003. The Startup Owner’s Manual was published in 2012.Blank’s

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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. Holmes founded a company known as Theranos in 2003 when she was just 19 years old. He founded an apparel company in 2012 and it has been quite successful. Investments from capital markets to real estate plummeted. Source: Pexels. Sean Belnick.

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Micro-Multinationals, And How They Will Define Our Era

YoungUpstarts

by Raj Subramaniam, Executive Vice President, Global Marketing and Communications, FedEx Services. “No No new business is worth starting in these times unless it can go global.” – Sir Richard Branson, founder, Virgin Group. Today, all you need is a mobile device, a shipping platform and a big idea.

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29 Seriously Inspiring Interviews For Aspiring Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

25, 2012: Beh Weng Wei won the grand prize at the 2011 Young Entrepreneur Awards for his Frambie pitch, which eliminates some of the stress associated with custom picture framing and should be launching in Singapore on June 1, 2012. 9, 2012: Thanks to Emily May’s Hollaback! Beh Weng Wei at Tech65.org

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Be a Pioneer not an Opportunist

thebarefootvc

I invested in Silicon Valley from 1999-2003 and in NYC pre and post 2008 financial crisis. The most exciting part of this future is the far-reaching global innovation and increased participation by women that I haven’t seen in previous cycles. I’ve seen this movie twice before as a VC.