2003 Revenue Search Viral 
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. Ok, now you have the context for early 2003. He provided our initial seed funding to launch the website publicly on May 5, 2003.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 4, 2011
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). Measuring viral adoption is obviously important. You can find out how to more cost effectively buy search terms (i.e. Revenue Metrics. I like to think of revenue drivers.
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Both Sides of the Table
JULY 16, 2013
I remember just a decade ago in 2003 when we all laughed at how dumb people in the 90′s were talking about the race to “capture as many eyeballs as possible” before your competition. The company with no revenue and a $150k burn rate that raised $2.5 I have seen much of that behavior over the past 2 years get worse.
Software By Rob
JANUARY 25, 2012
And the funds came from revenue generated by my portfolio of web applications and websites that I’ve built over the past several years. In Search Of… So that’s an intro to my startup philosophy, but where was I? Aaaah yes…the search. Imagine the luck! And I’d been a user since 2006.
reidhoffman.org
NOVEMBER 12, 2013
Friendster was at its height, strongly battling MySpace after raising its premium round from Benchmark and Kleiner in the fall of 2003. we had no revenue. Friendster raised a big round in 2003; MySpace started gaining traction. Because unlike Google search or other means, it involves people you already trust.
Duct Tape Marketing
MAY 18, 2011
Lee Odden Lee Odden is the CEO of TopRank Online Marketing , a digital marketing agency specializing in strategic internet marketing consulting, training and implementation services including: Content, Search, Email and Social Media Marketing. Shama Kabani Web and TV personality. All rights reserved.
Duct Tape Marketing
DECEMBER 14, 2017
We do a lot of soul searching around how do we built this product, when nobody knows it exist. When they have a problem, the first thing they do is they go to Google and they search for it. We started that company in 2003, and we sold it in the 2011, so you frame up the timing. They were very much a luxury item.
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