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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

This also appears as a guest post at Fortune’s Term Sheet. Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. conference happened at the end of 2004). May 26, 2011. It was a $4.7M

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

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What I’ve honorably been able to do, however, is share the deck I used to pitch LinkedIn to Greylock for a Series B investment back in 2004. the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. In 2004, the consumer internet was just beginning to rebound. In 2004, investors regained interest in the consumer internet again.

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16 Common Mistakes Young Startups Make

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Advertise Advertise. Legal Privacy Policy Terms of Use. In fact, recent research shows that 75% of startups fail (based on a study of 2,000 startups that received VC funding from 2004 to 2010). Assuming Virality. "A I have news for you: Theyre not coming and youre not going to go viral. Entertainment.

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