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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

Each VC firm/partner has a different spin on what to weigh more.) 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. 3) invest in and take equity stakes in exchange for capital.

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Do You Need a Business Plan? Scientific Research Says Yes

Up and Running

One study ( 1) published in 2010 aggregated research on the business growth of 11,046 companies and found that planning improved business performance. When you should start the planning process. What steps you can take to reduce your chances of failure. Planning can help companies grow 30 percent faster. Department of Economics.

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The Humanity of Our AI Future

thebarefootvc

Roomba vacuums, launched in 2004, are an example. Bradford Cross, a partner at Data Collective, just published a great blog post on this, along with other machine learning predictions for 2017. We’ve been using simplistic robots for years, often without knowing it.

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19 Psychological Tactics for Successful Crowdfunding Campaigns

ConversionXL

Most project creators describe their project using aggregate framing. When we intentionally or unintentionally hurt our relationship partners, we apologize.” ( Estrada-Hollenbeck & Heatherton, 1998 ). And they want to be seen displaying compassion because they want to be loved themselves.” ( West, 2004 ). The problem?

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The Humanity of Our AI Future

thebarefootvc

Roomba vacuums, launched in 2004, are an example. Bradford Cross, a partner at Data Collective, just published a great blog post on this, along with other machine learning predictions for 2017. We’ve been using simplistic robots for years, often without knowing it.

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The VC Shakeout: Are We There Yet?

Agile VC

Some of the firm’s partners may move on to new jobs during this phase but at least some are usually still around. 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. So at a fund level (e.g.

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