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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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How to Get Superior Returns in Venture Capital

David Teten

a “Bitcoin Fund”, a “Social Media Fund”, a “Nanotech Fund”), you’re going to raise capital from Limited Partners who are very focused on Theme X. – Network. At the same time, they reduce the value of knowledge about people in your network; now anyone can find out who, for example, are the M&A decision-makers at Cisco.

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How to Get Superior Returns in Venture Capital

David Teten

a “Bitcoin Fund”, a “Social Media Fund”, a “Nanotech Fund”), you’re going to raise capital from Limited Partners who are very focused on Theme X. – Network. At the same time, they reduce the value of knowledge about people in your network; now anyone can find out who, for example, are the M&A decision-makers at Cisco.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups. Texas is America’s premier business destination and well-positioned as a tech innovation leader. Pepper Snapple, Frito-Lay PepsiCo, Pizza Hut, and Toyota North America. More than 50 Fortune 500 companies are headquartered in Texas and six of the Fortune 50.

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Coach Helping People Deal With Traumatic Situations

Hearpreneur

That is when she decided to start Momentum Education in 2003, as a way of bringing the workshops she had delivered internationally without having to leave her home base of New York City. We’ve raised enough money in partnership with Feeding America to provide meals for over 10 million people. That is a great question.

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Coach Helping People Deal With Traumatic Situations

Hearpreneur

That is when she decided to start Momentum Education in 2003, as a way of bringing the workshops she had delivered internationally without having to leave her home base of New York City. We’ve raised enough money in partnership with Feeding America to provide meals for over 10 million people. That is a great question.

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FuturePerfect Ventures: A 2015 Recap

thebarefootvc

After spending time in Silicon Valley (from 1999-2003), Boston, London and Chicago, I moved back to NYC in 2004 and have been fortunate to witness the technology and startup growth for the past 10+ years. Just in the past year, a Babson study pointed out that funds with female partners were 3x + more likely to invest in female led companies.