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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

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Founding Date: 2004. Obviously most of these employees are working hard primarily for equity upside compensation, but Kayak’s personnel costs are roughly $200K/head so the company is highly productive on a per employee basis. round closed in June 2004. 1.65M extension round closed Nov 2004. Series A Preferred.

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Facebook S-1: The Most Anticipated IPO in a Decade ? AGILEVC

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I’ll focus for now on the business itself, there’s plenty of other info on the web if you care to understand the equity ownership or financing history of Facebook and frankly this has been fairly well known for awhile. ==. Founded : Spring 2004, incorporated July 2004. Facebook, Inc. Headquarters : Palo Alto, CA.

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ProfessorVC: How much is enough?

Professor VC

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Since the iControl system chronicles all meetings, I was able to find the automatic picture snapped from my first meeting with the founders, Reza Raji and Chris Stevens on April 22, 2004. I took a look back at our original financial model we presented to VCs in 2004. ProfessorVC.