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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Last week ZipCar began trading and has a market cap of about $1 billion. 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.

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VC Optimism Returning But More Pain Ahead In Their Portfolios

Hunter Walker

Obvious caveats to my POV here, most specifically: exposure is limited to largely the US/SiliconValley ecosystem, driven by our own portfolio, my friends and co-investors, the funds I’m a LP in, and our institutional LP relationships. Soft Acquisition Market. Valuations. And that’s what’s happening here.

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Groupon's S-1: From Zero to Like? Billions in 30 Months ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Even for those who don’t care to dive into the numbers, it’s worth a quick glance because co-founder/CEO Andrew Mason wrote a letter which forms the preamble of the full document. Groupon’s become a juggernaut in the immense local marketing space.

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What Did I Learn From the First VC Check I Ever Wrote?

Both Sides of the Table

Just as I was getting the swing of things the world shifted beneath my feet and the stock market went into a free fall and venture capital all but shut down for nearly a year. It proved to be fortuitous because it allowed me the time & space I needed to get to know tons of founders and VCs and to hone my craft.

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The 5 Key Parts to Startup Landing Pages That Convert

View from Seed

In episode 22 of our podcast, Traction , Unbounce co-founder and marketing keynote speaker Oli Gardner shared five key parts to well-optimized startup landing pages. Your email list can be used to get real-world feedback as you validate the market. In aggregate, he says, the conversion rates tend to go up. (He

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“I guess we’ll know we’ve made it when a woman can get away with behaving like Elon Musk.” Talking With VC Ashley Mayer About Finding Your Career, Taking Box Public, And Why She’s Not Interested In Reading Yet Another Female CEO Takedown

Hunter Walker

I had gone to high school with the founders in the Seattle area, and we had recently reconnected. My boss, Jen Grant , was an incredible manager, and Aaron Levie, the co-founder and CEO, was a fantastic partner on all things communications. I tried to get hired at Better Place and failed. Enter Box. They gave me a shot.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. 2) Market .