Agile VC

JANUARY 4, 2012

In addition to compelling founders, we were drawn to the company by their vision for a professional community for mechanical engineers and designers. You’ve seen this with companies like StackOverflow and Github in software engineering or Behance in visual design. It’s really been a pleasure for me to work with these guys.

Community 100

Community Estonia Syndicate Syndication 100

Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2012

To be fair Apple designs products in a holistic fashion… iStuff is remarkable not just for the physical product design but for the software user interface. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. At the end of the day, Apple isn’t really a software platform company.

Java 170

Java Flash Software Azure 170

Agile VC

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Typically it’s when Cambridge Associates releases their benchmark data on the VC asset class ( here’s a 2010 example article from TechCrunch ) or an organization like the Kauffman Foundation publishes a white paper ( a 2012 example article from Business Insider here ). What about fund of funds (FoF), you ask?

LP 176

LP Accredited Investor Carried Interest Portfolio 176

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

To give you a sense, for 2002 the entire US online ad market was $6B and had shrunk year over year (it was $25B+ for 2010). We’re just a little start-up with a big, big dream…We’ve just launched [link] in December 2010. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

Term Sheet 178

Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Agile VC

JUNE 25, 2012

But there are few products out there that federate the data across all of these systems and none that are solely focused on the individual user’s needs, as opposed to products designed to benefit company-wide usage or salesforce-wide usage. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

Cofounder 140

Cofounder Stealth Silicon Valley Mobile 140

Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

2) Design ethic vs engineers - Over the course of the last 5-10 years, many software-based startups are being built on competitive advantages of design and business model rather than technical differentiation. A hacker ethic is compatible with an urban setting just as design oriented one is compatible with a suburban one.

Silicon Valley 185

Silicon Valley San Francisco San Jose Startup 185

Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

ACH is an outgrowth of the Federal Reserve’s Fedwire system and was never intended for merchant payments (it was designed to replace paper drafts for certain interbank transfers like direct deposit). I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Read More ».

Mobile 250

Mobile Disintermediation SMS Government 250