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. is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. Ok, now you have the context for early 2003.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

Probably the grand-daddy of VC blogs, Union Square Ventures’ Fred Wilson has been posting every day since 2003. David Cohen is the founder and Managing Partner of Techstars, the #1 ranked internet startup accelerator in the world. It’s a great blog to visit, especially if you need help with your subscription business. Sam Altman.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Silicon Valley Cofounder 60

Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

While it was still a college-focused SNS, Facebook of course launched in 2004 and there were plenty of other examples of social networking already… Friendster (2002), LinkedIn (2003), MySpace (2003), Orkut (2004). I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Mail, Sports, etc.

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IP IPO Social Network Silicon Valley 100

Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Rather than reinvent the wheel, I would point readers to Martin Kleppmann’s useful blog post with graphs illustrating the effects of a valuation cap on entrepreneurs, seed investors and later-round (typically VC) investors. Valuation caps can come into play in settings other than seed-stage convertible note financing rounds.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Merger Vesting 98

Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

And going even further back there have been a few random ones have been built before like Salesforce.com and e-tailer RedEnvelope (IPO’d in 2003 though now defunct as a company). So why are software & internet startups more urban today than 5-10 years ago? This is true well before the internet era of Facebook, Yahoo!

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Silicon Valley San Francisco San Jose Startup 185

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Lastly, seed-stage entrepreneurs who have pushed for the maximum valuation possible haven’t done themselves any favors. Pandora begs Congress to lower Internet music licensing rates. Syria shuts down Internet in attempt to quell uprising. New Internet Explorer ad shows Microsoft as comeback kid.

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Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93