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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. round closed in June 2004. 1.65M extension round closed Nov 2004. Kayak Software Corporation.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

3) invest in and take equity stakes in exchange for capital. What this meant for entrepreneurs and VCs was a bit more complex– the IPO market was all but closed (with the Google IPO in 2004 as a brilliant exception), but it was possible find a buyer for your company. Each VC firm/partner has a different spin on what to weigh more.)

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19 Psychological Tactics for Successful Crowdfunding Campaigns

ConversionXL

Most project creators describe their project using aggregate framing. Equity-based – Equity returns (e.g., And they want to be seen displaying compassion because they want to be loved themselves.” ( West, 2004 ). Among their findings, one primary factor was efficacy. The problem? Reward-based – Non-financial rewards (e.g.,

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The VC Shakeout: Are We There Yet?

Agile VC

The entire US economy was booming (in an unsustainable debt binge, in retrospect) from 2004 through much of 2008, and the tech world was booming along with it. a VC fund’s entire portfolio in aggregate, net of management fees and carried interest) a good return from an LP’s perspective would be 2.5-3.0x

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

www.chubbybrain.com

Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. So, the best way of dealing with this issue is to take a long, long vesting period for all major sweat equity founders.