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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

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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). The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. conference happened at the end of 2004). Thanks Lee.

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The $100M+ Club: A New Universe of Buyers ? AGILEVC

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For the last 5-7 years the universe of potential acquirers web-based businesses has been fairly concentrated. were fairly active a few years ago though neither is as active today and big media conglomerates like Disney are fairly sporadic as they embrace web-based media. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. May 21, 2012.

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Change Collective: Helping Create A Better You

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We signed a term sheet with Ben for Change Collective’s round shortly before the holidays and he did a great job bringing in our friends at Founder Collective as a co-lead and Eniac Ventures and a small set of angels in a short time.

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Hardware, IoT, and the Long Arc of the Internet

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I played around on BBS’s when I was growing up in the late ’80s and of course the foundations of the web were laid even before that by the military and academic institutions. I described our existing investments in Whoop and Konekt and our thinking more broadly on businesses that have a hardware component.

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Hardware, IoT, and the Long Arc of the Internet

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I played around on BBS’s when I was growing up in the late ’80s and of course the foundations of the web were laid even before that by the military and academic institutions. I described our existing investments in Whoop and Konekt and our thinking more broadly on businesses that have a hardware component.

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Opportunistic & Thematic Investing ? AGILEVC

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2) Vast Human Capital Outside Our Walls - Rob, David, and I all try to draw on our experience as founders, operators, and investors in software & internet companies both in looking at new startups and forming investment themes. A good example of that is our theme around the consumerization of business software.

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Our Investment in Cloze ? AGILEVC

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The company has been in stealth mode for the last couple months but I wanted to take this opportunity to talk about NextView’s investment in the company and our enthusiasm to be working with co-founders Dan Foody and Alex Cote. I first met co-founder/CEO Dan Foody a little over six months ago.

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