2003 Boston Partner Revenue 
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. Ok, now you have the context for early 2003. He provided our initial seed funding to launch the website publicly on May 5, 2003.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 25, 2010
I had lost a previous deal where the team said they liked me but didn’t know my partners well enough so I promised myself never to let that happen again. So I organized a team dinner with all four of my partners and all three of their founders. I also made several trips to New York & Boston.
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Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 25, 2010
I had lost a previous deal where the team said they liked me but didn’t know my partners well enough so I promised myself never to let that happen again. So I organized a team dinner with all four of my partners and all three of their founders. I also made several trips to New York & Boston.
VC Adventure
FEBRUARY 1, 2010
If the state has budget issues, which I believe it does, and needs to raise tax revenue (which has other options available such as cutting staff, eliminating duplication and programs and implementing automation – all of which businesses have been doing for the last ~2 years), then let’s raise taxes. These are tricky but important details.
Up and Running
APRIL 17, 2013
Catch up on Part 1 of his “Playing with Glass” series, this is Part 2… It was 2003, 10 years ago, but I remember meeting Larry Page like it was yesterday. As for Google a decade later, after an IPO and billions upon billions in ad revenue later Google is one of the largest companies in the world. He said this.
Hearpreneur
JANUARY 7, 2017
Three years after that, I was fortunate enough to find a firm, Land Carroll & Blair, with a same client-oriented mentality and partnered with them. I hit over six figures in my first year in business – and the company revenue has increased annually ever since. It really started in Boston. Thanks to Nancy D.
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 11, 2019
Ann Miura-Ko is a founding partner at Floodgate , a seed-stage VC firm. The first time was just for a couple years, from 2001-2003, before I went to grad school. I was in Boston, working for the first time in venture capital as an analyst for this guy who was incredible and an amazing mentor. I've been in venture now twice.
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