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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. Neither is a particularly good backdrop for trying to raise capital, because. Reid Hoffman.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

The timing is perfect, there is more than a little overlap with Vivek Wadhwa’s guest post on venture capital earlier today. In Meebo’s case, for example, I was lucky enough to partner up with Elaine and Sandy. The business person can take all the meetings while the technical folks work on making the product better.