Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

May 26, 2011. A lot of people ask me what it was like raising the Series A round for LinkedIn back in 2003. I thought I’d revisit it and share the story… First, you have to rewind mentally to early 2003. Ok, now you have the context for early 2003. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC.

Term Sheet 178

Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

YoungUpstarts

JULY 11, 2018

The introduction of 3G in between 1998 and 2003 brought 200 Kbps speeds, four times faster than 3G. In addition to the revenue generated from apps themselves, the increased business efficiency powered by apps had a ripple effect on the economy. This ultimately increased to 7.2 4G: Empowering Mobile Broadband Applications.

South Korea 133

South Korea China SMS Germany 133

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! Award winning CEO of The Marketing Zen Group – a global digital marketing firm. Bestselling author.

Small Business 53

Small Business Marketing Social Media Cofounder 53

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Four years later, in May of 2003, they launched Taobao Marketplace, Alibaba’s answer to eBay. In November 2011, David Rosenblatt took over as CEO and has been scaling the company ever since. Poshmark was founded by Manish Chandra in 2011. Julie Wainwright founded The Real Real in 2011.

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

2009-2011: Retrenchment. The world is experiencing a global economic crisis of a proportion most living people have never witnessed. Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession.

IPO 202

IPO Early Stage Cofounder B2C 202

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

2009-2011: Retrenchment. The world is experiencing a global economic crisis of a proportion most living people have never witnessed. Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession.

IPO 100

IPO Early Stage Cofounder B2C 100

Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

And going even further back there have been a few random ones have been built before like Salesforce.com and e-tailer RedEnvelope (IPO’d in 2003 though now defunct as a company). I think the long-tail (size in terms of market cap, revenue, employees etc – pick one doesn’t matter) is moving towards the city.

Silicon Valley 185

Silicon Valley San Francisco San Jose Startup 185