Agile VC
MAY 26, 2011
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. is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. Ok, now you have the context for early 2003.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
Tech acquisitions went crazy at the same time the IPO market did. The boom in Internet startups would last 4½ years until it came crashing down to earth in March 2000. For the next four or five years, technology M&A boomed, growing from 50 in 2003 to 450 in 2006. So what’s left?
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Agile VC
MARCH 13, 2012
While it was still a college-focused SNS, Facebook of course launched in 2004 and there were plenty of other examples of social networking already… Friendster (2002), LinkedIn (2003), MySpace (2003), Orkut (2004). All the other stuff Yahoo! I didn’t use every Yahoo! Mail, Sports, etc. Author howerl.
Hearpreneur
OCTOBER 10, 2018
Remember, we’re on the Internet right now, and the Internet is owned by cats. When the decision was made to rebrand during the acquisition, I called on my team to determine what our new identity was going to be going forward. I lost my husband Rob to depression in 2003, when he was just 42 years old.
Feld Thoughts
OCTOBER 23, 2016
We were all investing in Internet-related stuff at the end of the 1990s. Jerry and Fred had one of the most successful VC funds during this time period until the Internet bubble burst and blew us all up for a while. 2003 – 2012 was the climb to Enlightenment. “We’re still just scratching the surface.”
Gust
NOVEMBER 4, 2011
Never missing an opportunity for a good war story, I’d like to revisit one high-profile transaction, the $650 million acquisition of MySpace by Fox Interactive Media in 2005, on which I spent many sleepless nights along with the rest of the deal team. Read on for a fuller explanation. Intermix and its advisors weren’t fools.
Software By Rob
OCTOBER 15, 2009
The masses have grown weary of the blog “fad” just as they grew weary of the “email” fad in the late 90s, the “internet” fad in 2000, MySpace and Friendster in 2007/2008, and how they’ll grow tired of the Facebook and Twitter fads in 2010 and move on to something else. Since 2003, my thoughts have often manifested in a blog post.
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