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GrabCAD & Professional Communities ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

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.

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How early should you connect to a VC? Here's some data.

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It''s also not the best way to create a helpful syndicate of investors that share the founder''s vision for the company. If it turned out that the best experiences I''ve had as an investor come from knowing someone a long time, I might go to events that are more around a specialty, like software development or design.

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The Difference Between Apple & Facebook ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

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.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

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.

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The Big Six Online Business Models

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I want to reduce the barriers to taking action, so things like tech, design, seo and syndication are handled for me, so I can go to work doing what I do best – creating content and formulating strategies. landing page design. sales letter design. store design. user interface design. back links.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Most of the other processs changes - mandatory design reviews (prelimninary, critical, etc), - documenting all our procedures, and so on - were to support those two factors. It might be more precise to categorize them of two kinds of flaws: flaws in implementation, and flaws in design. Im keen on the two-kinds-of-bugs thing.

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McKinsey highlight #1 - Cracking The Code - Yes

Cracking the Code

Done deal: after a quick syndication with the kitchen team (their job was at stake, so they were easy to convince.), ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010! Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your SaaS and C. Design courtesy of Ashley Cecil. SaaS 13 Index Valuation.