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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. The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today.

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I Have a Web Site, What Else Should I be Doing Online 2 :: Small.

Duct Tape Marketing

Rae Hoffman-Dolan Rae is the Principal of Sugarrae SEO Consulting and does various types of Internet marketing; search engine optimization, viral marketing, affiliate marketing, site auditing, link development road maps and tons of other little nooks and crannies of this business.

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My new fascination with Podcasts

VC Cafe

According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau, podcast industry ad revenue will reach $220 million in 2017, up 85 percent from 2016’s $119 million ( source ). Serial exploded in popularity and spread virally. Carlos Eduardo Espinal, a friend, and partner at Seedcamp. It’s excellent, doesn’t really get more meta.

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LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs

reidhoffman.org

× At Greylock , my partners and I are driven by one guiding mission: always help entrepreneurs. Friendster was at its height, strongly battling MySpace after raising its premium round from Benchmark and Kleiner in the fall of 2003. Friendster raised a big round in 2003; MySpace started gaining traction. Reid Hoffman.

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My fascination with Podcasts

VC Cafe

According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau, podcast industry ad revenue will reach $220 million in 2017, up 85 percent from 2016’s $119 million ( source ). Serial exploded in popularity and spread virally. This Much I know— Carlos Eduardo Espinal, a friend, and partner at Seedcamp. itunes.apple.com. itunes.apple.com.

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Wednesday Guest Stars :: Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct.

Duct Tape Marketing

Rae Hoffman-Dolan Rae is the Principal of Sugarrae SEO Consulting and does various types of Internet marketing; search engine optimization, viral marketing, affiliate marketing, site auditing, link development road maps and tons of other little nooks and crannies of this business.

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Transcript of How to Prepare to Sell Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

You can imagine the dealers advertiser on auto trader and cars.com, and their website, and all these different places, and sending that data, in all those different places and updating it every day would be a lot of labor to do manually. Over that eight year, eight years of time, actually some of the partners come and went.