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The Power of Quora & Why Benchmark was Right to Pay Up

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Pre Quora – AVC & Answers OnStartups. For me this dates back to pre-Internet days of bulletin boards, CompuServe , Prodigy and the like. And to give credit where it’s due (in addition to the content that Fred producers) a lot of the discussion works well because of the Disqus commenting platform.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

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is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. One partnership was clearly very divided and a vocal minority of GPs thought consumer internet companies were a massive waste of time and money. round which closed in November 2003, and the pre-money valuation between $10 million and $15 million.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

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The fact that today’s Internet bubble does not represent all companies does not disprove its existence. Ah, but today’s Internet companies have real revenue! It’s like people arguing that there’s a beautiful beach house in 2006 that represents great long-term value due to scarcity of similar property.