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Why Startups Should Raise Money at the Top End of Normal

Both Sides of the Table

2 preamble issues having read the comments on TC today: 1: I know that the prices of startup companies is much great in Silicon Valley than in smaller towns / less tech focused areas in the US and the US prices higher than many foreign markets. That’s the deal you get when you’re raising in a good market for startup financing.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. 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. Salesforce.com is a startup with 76,000 subscribers (over 2.1M May 26, 2011.

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Lean Startup Conference Speaker Ann Miura-Ko on being a founder, representation, and the future.

Startup Lessons Learned

Among her early investments are Lyft, TaskRabbit and Modcloth, which, as our recent conversation shows, are only part of the reason Forbes called her “the most powerful woman in startups.” Ann will be speaking at this year’s Lean Startup Conference in October about all of this and more. I've been in venture now twice.

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Playing Startup

Agile VC

I’ve observed what may be an emerging trend, at least in some startups, that I find somewhat unsettling. But I think it’s important to discuss, particularly given today’s heady environment for startups. But I think it’s important to discuss, particularly given today’s heady environment for startups.

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

Both Sides of the Table

This is an updated post from my ongoing series on Startup Advice that I learned from founding two companies. . I also made several trips to New York & Boston. In the 2003/04 timefame I was living in the UK and running my first company. Tags: Startup Advice. I HATE LOSING. I hate it. It chaps my hide.

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

Both Sides of the Table

This is an updated post from my ongoing series on Startup Advice that I learned from founding two companies. . I also made several trips to New York & Boston. In the 2003/04 timefame I was living in the UK and running my first company. Tags: Start-up Advice Startup Advice. I HATE LOSING. I hate it. I lose sleep.

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Urbanization of Startups ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Urbanization of Startups. I spent some time with some startups in San Francisco proper, as opposed to the heart of Silicon Valley (see Note 1). Also all the big anchor companies that a startup might want to partner with at that time (eBay, Google, Oracle, Yahoo!, April 13, 2012.