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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. To give you a sense, for 2002 the entire US online ad market was $6B and had shrunk year over year (it was $25B+ for 2010). conference happened at the end of 2004).

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

The Past (1985-2002). Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king. Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t. What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks?

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Episode 1: Business Loans, Website Tips, and the Apple Watch – The Bcast

Up and Running

The first article that we wanted to talk about is one written by the founder of Palo Alto Software, Tim Berry. Your accounting software, you’re entering those numbers. All the stuff you’re thinking about here, testimonials, social proof, think about reviews. Jonathan: Yeah, that’s right.

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The Economy and IT Spending

BeyondVC

If you take a closer look, “equipment and software” spending was at a 15.4% GDP growth and certainly do not believe that is sustainable due to one-time factors like tax cuts and mortgage refinancings. for 2004, down from an August 2003 spending survey forecast of 2.3% growth for 2004. growth for 2004.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

The Past (1985-2002). Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king. It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was.

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How an experienced Asp.net developer multiplied his productivity.

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

I won the Imagine Cup back in 2004 and I have trained people to pass their MCSD certifications. Have you done code reviews or hack sessions with experienced Rubyists to get their take on your approaches? and I have been a.Net consultant since then at Readify. with many of the patterns I’ve sort of fallen into with Rails.

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How an experienced Asp.net developer multiplied his productivity.

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

I won the Imagine Cup back in 2004 and I have trained people to pass their MCSD certifications. Have you done code reviews or hack sessions with experienced Rubyists to get their take on your approaches? and I have been a.Net consultant since then at Readify. with many of the patterns I’ve sort of fallen into with Rails.

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