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

Both Sides of the Table

Here’s my experience, my “ah ha&# moment and why I think, although still nascent, it’s one of the most powerful websites on the web right now. Pre Quora – AVC & Answers OnStartups. For me this dates back to pre-Internet days of bulletin boards, CompuServe , Prodigy and the like. No, really.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

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

www.paulgraham.com

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. Any city wherepeople start startups will have one or more of them. So theyre going to raise $200,000.