October, 2011

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The Consumerization of Business Software ? AGILEVC

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How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. Home. About Me. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. The Consumerization of Business Software. October 28, 2011. One of the themes that we’ve been most interested in at NextView over the last 12+ months has been the impact of consumer web trends on business software. I’m not the first person to describe this trend, and my prior background has been primarily as a consumer web guy more than in B2B companies.

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The ?PC? Era Finally Arrives ? AGILEVC

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How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. Home. About Me. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. The “PC” Era Finally Arrives. October 17, 2011. Steve Jobs’s passing reminded me of one of his sayings, that we’ve now entered a “post PC era” of computing. What he and others have meant is of course that the desktop computer is losing its preeimance as the primary computing platform with the rise of smartphones and tablets at one end

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Amazon vs Apple: A Tale of Two Business Models ? AGILEVC

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How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. Home. About Me. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Amazon vs Apple: A Tale of Two Business Models. October 3, 2011. Amazon announced it’s first real foray into the tablet wars last week with the Android based Kindle Fire. While not as large as Apple’s iPad and lacking a 3G connectivity option, the Fire packs a lot of capability into a $199 price point (I already pre-ordered mine).