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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Many assume it was a cakewalk, based on the success LinkedIn has enjoyed over time and the current stature of our founder/CEO Reid Hoffman (now Chairman). Yes… he was a very successful PayPal exec and previously co-founder & VP Product of SocialNet. The rest, as they say, is history. It was a $4.7M

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What Are Pre-Seed Rounds and Why Do They Exist?

View from Seed

To ensure you receive the rest, subscribe here. This means that it has rewarded Series A and B investors for chasing momentum and made it less important for these investors to focus on valuation or sound, early unit economics. technical co-founder). This is the first of several blog posts discussing pre-seed rounds.

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Understanding the Risks of VC Signaling

Both Sides of the Table

Second, more damning is the “signaling problem.&# This means that if a VC invests in your seed round and does not participate in a future round the next round investor will think to himself, “well, if Big VC Co. You were a VP at a company that sold for $200 million making the founder very wealthy. is now a VC.

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Mass Relevance Launches with Funding

Austin Startup

Q: Your co-founders have been working on some technology in their spare time. The source, size and valuation when funding determines how big of a company you’re claiming to build. The future is in finding relevance, curating for context, and syndicating this to the right audience at the right place.

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ProfessorVC: How much is enough?

Professor VC

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. At this time, we had secured a term sheet from a co-investor from one of my other angel investments (Thanks, Graeme!) So what does this all mean.