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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round). And obviously all the liq prefs went away in the IPO when pref stock converted to common.

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Groupon's S-1: From Zero to Like? Billions in 30 Months ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

How They Do It: Build email list of consumers interested in local deals (mainly via paid search & social network ads), sell coupon programs to merchants via telesales. Notes: None of the above should be considered investment advice or a recommendation to buy or sell Groupon stock. Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $713M.

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End of The 12 Year Drought

Growthink Blog

They would exempt companies looking to raise $5 million or less from standard SEC filing requirements and lighten the virtually impossible to follow rules on utilizing social networking and other Internet-based communications to market offerings. As a patriotic American, I say "hooray."

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Facebook S-1: The Most Anticipated IPO in a Decade ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

How They Do It : Operate a social network at Facebook.com, through Facebook’s mobile apps, and the Facebook Platform which lets other websites extend Facebook’s tools for authentication and social sharing. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Headquarters : Palo Alto, CA. Read More ».

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ProfessorVC: Touched by an Angel

Professor VC

I think the title of this post is a TV show, but fitting as there has been much debate in the venture community as to the whether angel investors are good or bad for entrepreneurs and VCs. One of my comments was that we would likely see more institutionalization of angel groups and syndication of deals among groups.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Small investment firms often have interns and entrepreneurs in residence passing through, each of which is a security risk. Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups.

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ProfessorVC: Angie's List or AngelList?

Professor VC

In corporate finance, students are taught that capital markets are efficient and this is an underlying assumption for valuing stocks, bonds and other financial instruments. Entrepreneurs struggle to find investors and investors struggle to find the best start-ups. A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal. ► January. (1).