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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). Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. link] leehower.

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How much does it cost to build the world’s hottest startups?

The Next Web

Founder Kevin Systrom launched Instagram with 25,000 beta users on October 6, 2010; two years later, the app continues to see massive growth, recently reporting 150 million active users. Luck, timing and social engineering are bigger components than most entrepreneurs care to imagine,” adds Werdelin. 3) Facebook. 6) Pinterest.

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Netflix vs. Blockbuster and bad profits (reflections from my Bazaarvoice days)

Austin Startup

I told the story about how Brant Barton, my Bazaarvoice co-founder, and I picked the name in Chapter 7 of my book “ The Entrepreneur’s Essentials ” (also available for free online). Apple has been a huge catalyst for digital music downloads due to the viral success of the iPod. They didn’t listen to the power of word of mouth.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. But I admit, I started programming assembly at 11 and then did a lot of C++ before moving on to.NET in 2002. We wrote all of our software in VB6 and then ported it to.NET in 2001/2002.

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