Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

And at PayPal we were hit with a couple patent disputes while in the midst of our IPO process. The bulk of the patents they believe Facebook is infringing pertain to things like A) display & targeting of online ads, B) online privacy, C) personalization of a user’s web experience, D) general online messaging (Yahoo!

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. It’ll be nearly two years before the concept of “Web 2.0″ ″ is popularized by Tim O’Reilly (the first Web 2.0

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mashable.com

JANUARY 13, 2012

Unfortunately, the web is ripe with sites that offer social implementations that miss the mark. You can go to any number of sites across the web that only offer Facebook Connect for social login. (My Web Video Roundup. Facebook IPO Hitting in Late May [REPORT]. Programming and Web Development Lists. Web Design.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

November 2005 Venture funding works like gears. In an IPO, it might not merely addexpense, but change the outcome. Those remedial actions can delay, stall or even kill the IPO. Of course the odds of any given startup doing an IPO are small.But not as small as they might seem. Want to start a startup?

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