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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. is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. Ok, now you have the context for early 2003.

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Welcome to The Frontier – An Ode To Startups

Feld Thoughts

Pantheon is building “A big badass platform that will run 30% of the Internet.” When I was was in college, I found some books written on the future social impact of the Internet on the World. We lost the campaign badly , but we won a major battle on The Frontier of Global Politics in the age of the Internet.

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A Heart Surgeon and an Internet Marketer: Interview with Dr. Mani

Life Beyond Code

Dr. Mani is also an Internet Marketer. While I have not seen any other heart surgeon who is an Internet Marketer, Dr. Mani is more special than that. He sets aside part of the profits from his Internet Marketing initiatives to help young children with congenital heart diseases. Dr. Mani is a heart surgeon. MS: One word.

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6 Signs That Your Startup Could Be The Next Exception

Startup Professionals Musings

The model was a perfect fit for the Internet Age. In 2003, just four years old, sales hit $1.5 Yet through it all, they’re idealists, believers in the power of the Internet to make the world a better place. They focused on small advertisers looking for bargains. Survived phenomenal early growth. They break the mold.

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When being an “expert” is harmful

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Methods of reaching consumers change every year (compare SEO or AdWords strategies from 2003 and 2010). I asked whether it was OK to depend on an Internet connection inside a secured hospital; he said “probably&# but he’d never asked.

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6 Signals That Your Startup Could Be The Next Google

Startup Professionals Musings

The model was a perfect fit for the Internet Age. In 2003, just four years old, sales hit $1.5 Yet through it all, they’re idealists, believers in the power of the Internet to make the world a better place. They focused on small advertisers looking for bargains. Survived phenomenal early growth. They break the mold.

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What we can learn from the evolution of Content Management Systems

The Next Web

Accessing the Internet on a phone was doable, but the experience was pretty bad. In 2003, another CMS, called WordPress, came into play, and with its plugin architecture, WordPress quickly won the hearts of the development community. A “normal” person was expected to have read the manual to learn how to use a new phone.

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