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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. Co-founder & CEO Steve Hafner and the business team are based in Norwalk, CT. Founding Date: 2004. round closed in June 2004. Series A Preferred.

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Rally Software Acquired By CA Technologies for $480 Million

Feld Thoughts

Ryan was encouraged to team up with Tim and shortly after that happened we co-led the first round VC financing with Boulder Ventures. Tim Miller (CEO) and Ryan Martens (CTO, founder) have been working together from the start of the journey. It has been a rocket ship from there. Million To The Boulder Community after their IPO.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Airbnb founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia had difficulty securing funding, so they launched a mini project to build some funds and catch investors' attention. Using this capital , the founders launched and enjoyed exponential growth in their first year, with 10K users and thousands of listings. Photo Credit: Jack Underwood.

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Welcome to The Frontier – An Ode To Startups

Feld Thoughts

Following is a guest post by Zack Rosen , co-founder and CEO of Pantheon. Date: Thursday, July 18, 2013 2:19:42 AM. I spent a year on the Dean campaign Web Team during the presidential campaign of 2004. Pantheon is building “A big badass platform that will run 30% of the Internet.” From: Zachary Rosen.

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After Raising $6.7M For Startups And Winning SEC Approval, AngelList Opens Up Investment Platform To More Companies

techcrunch.com

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. Wednesday, April 24th, 2013. Co-founder Naval Ravikant explains that 18 pilot companies in the program, including Transcriptic, Double Robotics and Tred, received $6.7 Disrupt NY 2013.

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Introducing our latest investment: Dwellable, mobile-first vacation rentals

Version One Ventures

Sometimes, you need to wait a long time for the chance to invest in an outstanding founder. He’s the co-founder of Urbanspoon , the popular restaurant review site and app. He also co-founded Cubeduel, a site that lets you rank your co-workers and Strangeberry, a digital media startup that was acquired by TiVo in 2004.

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Getting Better At Email

YoungUpstarts

by MaryAnn Bekkedahl, co-founder and president of theSwizzle. With the trend of email overload more than likely to continue in 2013, the time has come to clean up, prioritize and organize your inbox so that the emails you do receive are the ones you want to keep. Do you ever wonder how we functioned before email?

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