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). conference happened at the end of 2004). We were post product and had viral growth, albeit at very small scale and still had to evangelize the concept of a vital coefficient w/ most investors.

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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. the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. In 2004, the consumer internet was just beginning to rebound. In 2004, investors regained interest in the consumer internet again.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

But more spend = more viral opps = more revenue down the road. >50% of our revenue in now viral. Ironically our business started to perform very will by 2004 but by then management had lost the dream of a huge upside. Many term sheets ensued. I had that against the backdrop of several term sheets.

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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). Assuming Virality. "A I have news for you: Theyre not coming and youre not going to go viral. Services dont spontaneously go viral. Some startups are destined for failure.

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