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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round). link] leehower.

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

reidhoffman.org

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. Friendster’s valuation set the tone for the entire social networking space.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

www.chubbybrain.com

Review our Guide to Reverse Due Diligence on Investors. A couple of friendly amendments: * Two commenters on a May 2004 blog post, Whither Trepia? If you’ve read this far, you definitely should : Try out our Funding Recommendation Engine. Follow us on twitter here. Posted in startups. Joe McCarthy says: October 21, 2010 at.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. Take note of what Paul Graham said in 2004: [link] — he is talking along similar lines. They’ve tried everything. Everything, that is, but.NET. 7% of cell phone market.

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