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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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The Subscription Economy May Be Revolutionary—But It’s Not Without Risks

Up and Running

When I started in the financial services industry in 2003, getting to meetings when I was on the road was pretty straightforward—I took a cab. And, everything I needed to run my meeting was on my laptop in a series of Microsoft Office files—software I had purchased on CD ROM via a one-time transaction and installed on my machine.

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17 Venture Capital Blogs You Should Be Reading

Up and Running

This is the home of Jason Cohen, software startup founder, bootstrapper, investor, and mentor. Jason does an excellent job explaining the math behind more complex subscription forecasting, but also touches on topics like marketing and company culture. Brad Feld is a managing director at Foundry Group in Boulder, Colorado.

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Four New Types of CIO for the Future

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Chief Infrastructure Officers Infrastructure officers will do much of what is expected of modern CIOs: reduce infrastructure costs, manage legacy technology and ensure smooth IT operations. Does this seem like a reasonable forecast to you? If you want to read more, check out Wangs article for the Harvard Business Review.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

Israel’s central bank, Morgan Stanley and other financial institutions have forecasted 3.5% Since 2003 the global market for children’s nutrition and infant formula products has nearly doubled reaching about $23 billion in 2009. AMDOCS BUYS LEADING UK MOBILE COMPANY MX TELECOM. Net-Aye is a subsidiary of Bar-Tec Ltd.

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The Economy and IT Spending

BeyondVC

If you take a closer look, “equipment and software” spending was at a 15.4% GDP growth and certainly do not believe that is sustainable due to one-time factors like tax cuts and mortgage refinancings. for 2003 spending. That being said, the October 2003 survey forecasts spending growth of only 1.3%