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. Many assume it was a cakewalk, based on the success LinkedIn has enjoyed over time and the current stature of our founder/CEO Reid Hoffman (now Chairman). Ok, now you have the context for early 2003.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

Ann Miura-Ko is a founding partner at Floodgate , a seed-stage VC firm. She’s also a founding member of All Raise, a non-profit committed to improving diversity in both funders and founders. The first time was just for a couple years, from 2001-2003, before I went to grad school. I've been in venture now twice.

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was. In December, AngelList , a service that matches early-stage startups with investors, debuted the ability to allow accredited investors to actually invest in startups on the platform with as little as $1,000. Investors included Founders Fund, 500 Startups and Marc Cuban.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Entrepreneurs and investors who have spent any time dealing with convertible debt seed financing transactions are likely to have encountered the subject of valuation caps. Valuation caps can come into play in settings other than seed-stage convertible note financing rounds. MySpace became its own company, MySpace, Inc.,

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

“I wouldn’t expect anyone except seed investors to complain about it,” Graham says. “Founders don’t think their problems are due to trends. And in fact, overall trends are a second-order effect for founders.” Sarah Lacy is the founder and editor-in-chief of PandoDaily. Sarah Lacy.

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