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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

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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). My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. Ok, now you have the context for early 2003.

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Yahoo! vs Facebook: Lame Lawsuit, Good Timing ? AGILEVC

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While it was still a college-focused SNS, Facebook of course launched in 2004 and there were plenty of other examples of social networking already… Friendster (2002), LinkedIn (2003), MySpace (2003), Orkut (2004). property over the years, but certainly frequented not just search but also News, Yahoo! All the other stuff Yahoo!

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Invest in Israel Newsletter September 2010 Edition

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acquired 5min Media, the world’s leading video syndication network with a library of more than 200,000 categorized, tagged and rated videos from more than 1,000 of the world’s largest media companies and professional independent video producers. the New York-based Internet company spun off from Time Warner Inc.,

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Ethos: What Golazo Means to NextView ? AGILEVC

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Watch enough soccer on Telemundo or Univision and you’ll occasionally hear the commentators shout it at the top of their lungs, or just search on YouTube and you’ll get some examples. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 4 days ago Search. But as I said, we had to put NextView’s ethos in our own words.

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Our Investment in Cloze ? AGILEVC

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CRM) but it’s rarely easy to browse or search all of this contact information from a single interface. And in it’s raw format, just searching for a contact may not provide much value. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. What’s Your Favorite Future? Previous Entries.

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