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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. The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today.

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Google Adds Reputation Management to Dashboard :: Small Business.

Duct Tape Marketing

I’ve been promoting tools like Google Alerts and Google Reader for years now and today Google added something called “ Me on the Web &# as an attempt to make it easier to monitor your identity on the web. All rights reserved.

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Put A Coin In It! Invest In Early Stage Startups To See Maximum ROI

YoungUpstarts

A solid marketing strategy shows more than just a long term commitment to effective advertising and self-promotion; it shows investors that the company is determined to gain traction amongst its target demographic or the community it’s meeting the demands of, while on a mission to retain consumers, leading to maximum ROI in the long run.

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25 Entrepreneurs Discuss The Entrepreneurs That Best Represents Innovation and Disruption

Hearpreneur

In 2003, Odysseas Tsatalos and Stratis Karamanlakis were friends who wanted to work together even though one of them was in the U.S. It has managed to find the right balance between making music affordable while still ensuring that artists are adequately compensated. Thanks to Ray Leon, Pet Insurance Review ! #21-

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Business Advice Podcasts: Why Every Entrepreneur Should Tune In

Up and Running

In 2003, the journey of the podcast began, and by 2007, “The Ricky Gervais Show” made headlines with a record-breaking audience 260,000 listeners. Podcasting is a powerful advertising platform , as well as a great content marketing tool. The latest member of this elite media club is the humble podcast.

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Google Finally Weaving Local Strategy :: Small Business Marketing.

Duct Tape Marketing

I took note of both and wrote quick updates – The first was the addition of optimized reviews in Places Pages and the second was the addition of reputation management features in Profile Pages. Two barely noticeable moves in the last couple weeks give hint to the this focus strategy. and CityPages. All rights reserved.

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Monitoring Relationship Status :: Small Business Marketing Blog.

Duct Tape Marketing

Business owners must learn to manage and juggle a complex and shifting combination of customer, partner, vendor, staff and advisory relationships in order to survive and grow. One of the greatest challenges in doing so is monitoring the current status of all of these important relationships. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : All rights reserved.