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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

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. He provided our initial seed funding to launch the website publicly on May 5, 2003.

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

Agile VC

March 13, 2012. 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). Leader on Mar 5 2012. 10 July 2012, 7:05 pm Why Do VC’s Have Ownership Targets?

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10 of the Most Successful Investors of the Last 10 Years

The Startup Magazine

Sachin Bansal and his business partner, Binny Bansal, launched an e-commerce site in India in 2007. Holmes founded a company known as Theranos in 2003 when she was just 19 years old. Carlson put $4 million into it. Peter is the founder of Bay Street Capital Partners. He owns a substantial amount of shares in the company.

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We Were Right – Just a Decade Early

Feld Thoughts

” Jerry was Fred Wilson ‘s partner at Flatiron Partners. 1/4 to $35.93 3/4 and News Corp. 1/4 to 45.06 1/4 on the NYSE. 1/4 to $436.06 1/4 on the Nasdaq Stock Market.” 20032012 was the climb to Enlightenment. Disney jumped $4.81 rose $7.31

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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’ | Xconomy

www.xconomy.com

Managing Director, Enterprise Partners. XSITE 2012: The Xconomy Summit on Innovation, Technology & Entrepreneurship. Partner Anu Pathria, who helped to develop HNC’s Falcon system for making real-time predictions of credit card fraud, developed a similar analytics system to assess the risk of prospective VC deals.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

4 – There Were 2 Gaping Holes in the Industry. Three years after that, I was fortunate enough to find a firm, Land Carroll & Blair, with a same client-oriented mentality and partnered with them. From that life altering event, Ella Bing was born as a family owned and operated business in 2012. Image Credit: Jonny Nicol.

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FuturePerfect Ventures: A 2015 Recap

thebarefootvc

After spending time in Silicon Valley (from 1999-2003), Boston, London and Chicago, I moved back to NYC in 2004 and have been fortunate to witness the technology and startup growth for the past 10+ years. Just in the past year, a Babson study pointed out that funds with female partners were 3x + more likely to invest in female led companies.