2004 Acquisition Cofounder Entrepreneur 
Agile VC
APRIL 17, 2011
Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. Co-founder & CEO Steve Hafner and the business team are based in Norwalk, CT. Founding Date: 2004. round closed in June 2004. Series A Preferred.
Feld Thoughts
MAY 28, 2015
At the same time, his partner at his previous company – Tim Miller – was doing an entrepreneur-in-residence at a local Boulder VC firm (Boulder Ventures). Ryan was encouraged to team up with Tim and shortly after that happened we co-led the first round VC financing with Boulder Ventures. It has been a rocket ship from there.
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Agile VC
MAY 26, 2011
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). Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). conference happened at the end of 2004). It’ll be nearly two years before the concept of “Web 2.0″
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 12, 2013
by MaryAnn Bekkedahl, co-founder and president of theSwizzle. The ‘jockey,’ of course, is the founder and leadership team. For me, the biggest challenge has been the long stretches of time (weeks) between major feature builds or consumer acquisition spikes. Key lessons Learned From The Fundraising Process.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 23, 2013
Viljakainen, founder of No Fear Community and author of “ No Fear: Business Leadership for the Digital Age “. What inevitably follows is that the price for corporate acquisitions is pretty high and integrating the different teams is, to say the least, interesting – verging on impossible. He is also the founder of No Fear Community.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 10, 2010
This episode of This Week in Venture Capital featured Michael Montgomery, president of Montgomery & Co. If you don’t know Montgomery & Co it is one of the premier technology & media focused investment banks in the country (and as Michael corrected me they also have a strong Healthcare / Med tech practice).
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. Intermix was in a turnaround situation when I arrived in mid-2004, having been delisted from Nasdaq and nearly bankrupt. Read on for a fuller explanation.
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