Agile VC

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

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The company didn’t turn a profit until 2003, but by 2005 business was booming – Netflix was shipping out a million DVDs daily. Back in 2003, the company lost over $300 million and was virtually out of money – and they were projected to lose even more the following year. #4- Netflix. Photo Credit: Jen Wan.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

I ran my first marathon in London this way in 2003 raising $3,000 for Parkinson’s disease (and finishing in under 4 hours – my publicly stated goal). He told me in some combinations of device / OS / network they are crashing 4 times per 100. Measuring viral adoption is obviously important. How many adds came through organic SEO?

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 25, 2012

That I’ve had a few “exits” and instead of hunkering down and writing code for 6 months I opted to talk to a few of my buddies at the yacht club and purchase a primed and growing social network for somewhere in the mid-seven figures. And I was running scared… Step 1: Like a Chicken With No Head.

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Board Effect

OCTOBER 16, 2019

New apps are continually being introduced to help interconnect social media platforms which can help automate content and spread it virally using a few clicks. While social media presents a way for good news to travel fast, nonprofit boards also have to be aware that bad news travels even faster. Think twice, post once.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

This gave me an idea: I could help many more entrepreneurs by making the deck available not just to the Greylock network of entrepreneurs, but to everyone. Friendster was at its height, strongly battling MySpace after raising its premium round from Benchmark and Kleiner in the fall of 2003. the evolution of LinkedIn as a company.

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VC Cafe

JULY 24, 2017

I still remember the excitement of creating my page on Blogger, acquired by Google in 2003. It was a social network for the blogger community (later acquired by Yahoo in 2007), which when installed, showed where your visitors come from, what they read and where they go. Social networks offer unprecedented reach.

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