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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

What They Do: Travel search engine. How They Do It: Aggregate data from travel data warehouses like ITA as well as indexing travel providers websites, provide this information to consumers in a highly customizable search engine. Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $170 million. Search Statistics: 2010 Queries: 634 million.

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A VC’s take on the Season 5 premier of Sharktank

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Despite having over 500k downloads and making $450k in revenue over the last 21 months, he had only $185k left in the bank, which meant that he would be out of business in 90 days if he didn’t raise more money. pre money valuation and planned to use the money to market the app. pre money valuation).

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

LinkedIn’s product had only been live for a couple months, we only had tens of thousands of registered users, and wouldn’t start generating revenue for more than a year after this point. round which closed in November 2003, and the pre-money valuation between $10 million and $15 million. It was a $4.7M

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

There never has to be atime when you have no revenues. Startups valuations aresupposed to rise over time. So if youre going to sell cheap stockto eminent angels, do it early, when its natural for the companyto have a low valuation. Some angel investors join together in syndicates. In Boston thebiggest is the CommonAngels.