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Making Good Decisions Still Means You're Sometimes Wrong.

Agile VC

In NextView’s case that’s seed stage internet and software companies. Coordinates Recent Posts The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] 11 July 2012, 1:57 pm Our Investment in Cloze 25 June 2012, 5:36 pm Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That’s Never Happened 12 June 2012, 4:19 pm.

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Startup IPO Market: A Fickle Mistress ? AGILEVC

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In the software an internet space a number of companies obviously had strong public offerings (LinkedIn, Yandex, Pandora, RenRen, et al). How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC Syndicate 10 July 2012, 5:13 pm What A VC Orders for Breakfast Says 27 June 2012, 10:16 am To Leave or Not to Leave as Your Startup Grows 12 June 2012, 12:21 pm.

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How Mobile Payment Will Impact The Growth Of Mobile Commerce This Holiday Season

YoungUpstarts

The recent release of Apple Pay, the mobile payment service available on the iPhone 6, gives us a window into how consumers will make their purchases. Apple Pay is just one mobile payment option. That means embracing the trend toward quicker, and in some cases more secure, mobile payment options.

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The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

July 11, 2012. And while the internet created both tremendous reward and tremendous investment carnage leading up to and after the 2000 tech bubble, it’s created long run disruption of broad sectors of media, advertising, business software & computing, and retail commerce and VCs that missed this shift have faced real struggles.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. One partnership was clearly very divided and a vocal minority of GPs thought consumer internet companies were a massive waste of time and money. Consumer internet plays in Canada are rare, and finding a VC willing to give you the cash to scale is even more so.

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5 Hot Ecommerce Trends to Watch

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July 10, 2012 by Curt Finch. When a potential customer visits a website and then leaves without making a purchase, companies can ‘follow’ them on the Internet,” says Melissa Chelist, owner of Storkgifts , an online children’s store. Mobile devices are fast becoming the preferred method of accessing the web.

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The End of ?Internet? Companies ? AGILEVC

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The End of “Internet” Companies. May 23, 2012. Al Gore's 2012 Induction to the Internet Hall of Fame. I believe with unshakable conviction that the internet has been and will continue to be the most distruptive innovative force of of my lifetime. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups.

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