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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

This also appears as a guest post at Fortune’s Term Sheet. Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). conference happened at the end of 2004). We got to term sheet a bit quicker, but from start to the close was basically June to Nov 2003. How To Think About The Future. May 26, 2011.

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Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

Both Sides of the Table

Selling LowerMyBills: o In 2004 he was getting a lot of call to take more money but was not interested. He met with 8 companies and got 6 term sheets, decided to take General Atlantic deal and that’s when Experian came back to buy the whole thing. Mark’s view: too much money can eliminate discipline.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. The following is a brief series of quotes from just ten of the approximately 30 different topics discussed in this incredible interview. RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I Is that when it became big?

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The Twenty Year Itch: My Last VC Investment Out of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures

This is going to be BIG.

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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What the heck does that mean?

ithacaVC

I have been a VC since August 2004. And I have always gotten a kick out of short company descriptions that I read in VC daily reports (like Term Sheet and Pro Rata). While I understand most of the descriptions, there are always some curve balls.

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Congrats to Backupify! A Great Exit Story for the First Company I Ever Backed

This is going to be BIG.

I started reading a great blog called Business Pundit in 2004. Less than 100 days into joining FRC after winding down my startup, I offered my friend Rob the first term sheet I ever sent out--to lead the seed round of the company I accidentally inspired with a Tweet. Venture Capital & Technology'

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Why I Don’t Call People Out By Name

Feld Thoughts

Instead, I do it for the same reason that Jason Mendelson and I wrote around 30 blog posts about the term sheet in 2004 and 2005 and then followed it up with our book Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist. It’s also not to use this blog as a bully pulpit to negotiate, as someone suggested.

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