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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

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The terms and valuation for both offers were comparable and when the team debated which path to choose, we all agreed both firms would have made good partners. round which closed in November 2003, and the pre-money valuation between $10 million and $15 million. It was a pretty good valuation for the time. It was a $4.7M

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Facebook Paid

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As a thought exercise though I thought I’d try to put the valuation in perspective. I’m also not suggesting that we should apply Facebook’s revenue/user as a “conceivable” revenue metric to every mobile messaging service… most will never monetize at anywhere near that high a level. billion for it.

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Facebook Paid

Agile VC

As a thought exercise though I thought I’d try to put the valuation in perspective. I’m also not suggesting that we should apply Facebook’s revenue/user as a “conceivable” revenue metric to every mobile messaging service… most will never monetize at anywhere near that high a level. billion for it.

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Square IPO: Is Square A Good Payments Business?

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I’ll address potential valuation further down the post here. Unfortunately the fact that the company raised capital in private markets at a healthy valuation ($6B) and the uncertainty about having a CEO who’s attention is divided between two public companies obscures this story.

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