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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 Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

Both Sides of the Table

I ran my first marathon in London this way in 2003 raising $3,000 for Parkinson’s disease (and finishing in under 4 hours – my publicly stated goal). per click on an SEM basis this is NOT your cost to acquire a customer – you need to add conversion rate. to $1.10) and you can focus on improving conversion (i.e. lowering $1.50

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Deal with Your Elephant in the Room

Both Sides of the Table

There’s an old saying that if I’m talking with you and I start the conversation by saying, “whatever you do, DO NOT think about Elephants &# then you can’t help but thinking about elephants while we’re speaking. million for a social networking site 18 months ago. You raised $1.5 Small story.

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Google VP: Here's How to Get Bought By Us

mashable.com

But there’s also the satellite-mapping company Keyhole, which in 2003 became the seed that sprouted Google Maps. I created {s}hareCLOUD — Private social networks for businesses– with Google in mind. Social Media Lists. Social Network Lists. Social Media. Social Networking.

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Small Business Marketing: Web Design Best Practices and Tips

crowdSPRING Blog

A strong website can also help individuals and businesses to promote their brands online, including on social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Classmates, Bebo, Yelp, Foursquare and others. If your 2010 website has content dated from 2003, your visitors may quickly leave your site. Consider Site Load Times.

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Small Business Marketing: Web Design Best Practices and Tips

crowdSPRING Blog

A strong website can also help individuals and businesses to promote their brands online, including on social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Classmates, Bebo, Yelp, Foursquare and others. If your 2010 website has content dated from 2003, your visitors may quickly leave your site. Consider Site Load Times.

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Weekend Favs June Eighteen :: Small Business Marketing Blog from.

Duct Tape Marketing

Keepstream – tool that allows you to organize and publish an archive of things on Twitter such as events streams, specific conversations or a product launch and then embed the conversation on your site. Also makes a great way to share a conversation about a client to help them understand the buzz.