Agile VC

article thumbnail

LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

If Reid were to start a company today he’d probably have every VC in America offering to back him, but this wasn’t necessarily the case when we started LinkedIn out of his apartment in Mountain View at the end of 2002. We’re a how-to site and community for small business on marketing. .

article thumbnail

Square IPO: Is Square A Good Payments Business?

Agile VC

swipe transactions) payments for very small merchants who historically did not accept credit cards because of the cost and complexity of dealing with traditional payment solutions (expensive terminals, confusing fee structures, etc). Square really democratized “card present” (e.g. So was the Starbucks deal worth it?

IPO 165