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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Founding Date: 2004. How They Do It: Aggregate data from travel data warehouses like ITA as well as indexing travel providers websites, provide this information to consumers in a highly customizable search engine. Distribution revenue is CPC and CPA. . Kayak generates both distribution (i.e. Series A Preferred.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Underwriters realized that as long as the public was happy snapping up shares, they could make huge profits on the inflated valuations (regardless of whether or not the company should have ever been public.) The valuations for acquisitions were nothing like the Internet bubble, but there was a path to liquidity, difficult as it was.

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The Humanity of Our AI Future

thebarefootvc

Roomba vacuums, launched in 2004, are an example. As a VC who has built a fund focused on distributed connectivity and data analytics as a thesis, I am realistic about the current status of investment opportunities in the sector. Many teams, while discussing VC investment, were acquired by larger companies for their asking valuations.

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The Humanity of Our AI Future

thebarefootvc

Roomba vacuums, launched in 2004, are an example. As a VC who has built a fund focused on distributed connectivity and data analytics as a thesis, I am realistic about the current status of investment opportunities in the sector. Many teams, while discussing VC investment, were acquired by larger companies for their asking valuations.