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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

Feld Thoughts

Take a look at the founding syndicates of each: Masstor Sytems (5/1979). Quantum Corporation (6/1980). What is striking about these syndicates is that nobody had any meaningful capital, which forced syndication and cooperation. For many years preceding 1999, the 1982 vintage was known as the industry’s worst vintage year.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

LinkedIn’s product had only been live for a couple months, we only had tens of thousands of registered users, and wouldn’t start generating revenue for more than a year after this point. This is my 2nd time trying this, first time was in 1999. link] Terence Donnelly. then we integrate loyalty programs, CRM, etc.,

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

Their code base had diverged and it was extremely slow and costly for Microsoft to be implementing Word separately for each platform: Windows, DOS and Mac. It also meant that there was great pressure to get the release out so they could start to gain the efficiencies of a single code base. In 1993, Word 6.0 The combination is amazing.

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