Agile VC
MAY 26, 2011
This also appears as a guest post at Fortune’s Term Sheet. Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). Facebook doesn’t exist, even as a walled-garden college social network (Mark Zuckerberg was part way through his freshman year at Harvard). conference happened at the end of 2004).
This is going to be BIG.
MAY 5, 2023
She’s already a seasoned pro—three term sheets got signed in her room at the NICU where she spent the first 80 days of her life. To think, I almost didn’t take that 2004 meeting because it was a NYC-based fund. No new investments. No more responding to fundraising decks.
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This is going to be BIG.
DECEMBER 11, 2014
I started reading a great blog called Business Pundit in 2004. Later that year, I sent a tweet that inspired a company that initially only Rob thought was a pretty terrible idea: Using FlickrEdit and a JungleDisk network drive to backup all my Flickr photos to S3. It was written by a guy about my age down in Louisville, Kentucky.
reidhoffman.org
NOVEMBER 12, 2013
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. This gave me an idea: I could help many more entrepreneurs by making the deck available not just to the Greylock network of entrepreneurs, but to everyone. the evolution of LinkedIn as a company.
Professor VC
JUNE 20, 2011
had mixed emotions when I read the the press release on the recent funding of iControl Networks. Since the iControl system chronicles all meetings, I was able to find the automatic picture snapped from my first meeting with the founders, Reza Raji and Chris Stevens on April 22, 2004. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. ► 2010. (7).
techcrunch.com
SEPTEMBER 6, 2012
From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. The hybrid social network, communication and crowdsourcing platform allows startups to access investors, and has also become a resource for investors looking to boost dealflow and connect with other investors.
mashable.com
JUNE 11, 2013
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). We spent six months fundraising only to walk away once we had a term sheet in hand because we realized we were making enough money to sustain and grow the business on our own terms.
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