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Comment by Munksgaard

4 hours ago

How many of those organizations you named were VC-backed?

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jacobgold  4 hours ago

Cisco, backed early by Sequoia.

3Com, raised $1.1M from three venture capitalists in 1981.

Sun, a Kleiner Perkins portfolio company.

UUNET, raised from Accel, Menlo, and NEA in 1993.

Netscape, backed by Kleiner Perkins.

AOL, backed by Kleiner Perkins.

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