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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

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The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. It’ll be nearly two years before the concept of “Web 2.0″ ″ is popularized by Tim O’Reilly (the first Web 2.0 is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO.

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How to Fund a Startup

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Startups valuations aresupposed to rise over time. So if youre going to sell cheap stockto eminent angels, do it early, when its natural for the companyto have a low valuation. Some angel investors join together in syndicates. Angels and even VC firms occasionally do this, but they alsoinvest at later stages.