Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

While it was still a college-focused SNS, Facebook of course launched in 2004 and there were plenty of other examples of social networking already… Friendster (2002), LinkedIn (2003), MySpace (2003), Orkut (2004). I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Read More ».

IP 100

IP IPO Social Network Silicon Valley 100

Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Rather than reinvent the wheel, I would point readers to Martin Kleppmann’s useful blog post with graphs illustrating the effects of a valuation cap on entrepreneurs, seed investors and later-round (typically VC) investors. Valuation caps can come into play in settings other than seed-stage convertible note financing rounds.

Valuation 98

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Merger Vesting 98

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Founded : Spring 2004, incorporated July 2004. Facebook admits as much that the ad business, which again accounts for the vast majority of revenues (85%), has seasonality in line with the media industry generally with a strong Q4 and weak Q1. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

IPO 100

IPO South Korea Venezuela Revenue 100

Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

The secondary wave of VC-backed IPOs has also come to fruition… both consumer facing (Yelp, Demand Media, Pandora, Carbonite, HomeAway, Angie’s List, et al) and B2B (Jive Software, Brightcove, Imperva, Responsys, etc). I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Author howerl.

IPO 100

IPO Silicon Valley Revenue Seed Stage 100

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

World Featured in US & World Featured: Facebook iPhone 4S Media Summit. Joshua Baer is the co-founder and CEO of Otherinbox , a prolific angel investor and the director of Capital Factory , Austin’s seed-stage incubator. He founded SKYLIST in 1996 from his college dorm room at Carnegie Mellon, and created UnsubCentral in 2004.

Social Media 80

Social Media Startup Angel Investor RSS 80

VC Cafe

JUNE 11, 2010

Hopefully you haven’t heard of them before… Jivy Group - a mini-conglomerate of companies founded in 2004. The biggest company in the space is OfferPal Media. Technion Seed CEO Moshe Katznelson said, “Incubators are the leaders in seed-stage investment in Israel.&# (via Globes ).

South Africa 89

South Africa Product Incubator 89

techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. Today, AngelList is debuting Docs, which lets seed-stage startups close their round online. Mendelson: Why Social Media Is B t [TCTV]. Leena Rao currently works as a writer for TechCrunch.

Term Sheet 70

Term Sheet San Francisco Technical Review Seed Stage 70