2005 Management Term Sheet Viral 
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 19, 2009
I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. My blog linked to Brad Feld’s blog because I was so grateful for his series on term sheets and he was one of the biggest reasons that as a VC I felt compelled to blog. The managing partner of the firm called me the next day. That changed very quickly.
Agile VC
MAY 26, 2011
This also appears as a guest post at Fortune’s Term Sheet. At the end of the process, which ran into the fall of 2003, we received term sheets from two firms and had a third which expressed interest in participating though not leading the round. How To Think About The Future. May 26, 2011. It was a $4.7M Congrats!
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Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 2, 2009
He’s been at it since 2005. The VCs basically have liquidity in management fees along the way, in the sense they get paid decently along the way. But more spend = more viral opps = more revenue down the road. >50% of our revenue in now viral. I founded it in 2005 at the age of 37. You lose the dream.
reidhoffman.org
NOVEMBER 12, 2013
We are the leader in the professional domain with viral growth. Over the long term, we anticipated that the answer would be subscriptions, but we didn’t know how long it would take to get there. Here, we argue that we have a viral product that creates a network that possesses network effects.
mashable.com
JUNE 11, 2013
If you dont manage this expectation upon hiring, you will be managing employee issues six months down the line. Assuming Virality. "A I have news for you: Theyre not coming and youre not going to go viral. Services dont spontaneously go viral. Often times, that work eventually goes beyond your job description.
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