Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

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. 10 July 2012, 7:05 pm Why Do VC’s Have Ownership Targets? And Why 20%?

Term Sheet 178

Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

March 13, 2012. only notified them of potential IP infringement two weeks ago on February 27, 2012 (as described in the lawsuit) and Facebook heard about it through the media rather than in private. Leader on Mar 5 2012. 10 July 2012, 7:05 pm Why Do VC’s Have Ownership Targets? How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC.

IP 100

IP IPO Social Network Silicon Valley 100

Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

If Groupon’s growth rate drops by 80% they’ll still be nearly tripling top line sales in 2012. 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.

North America 100

North America Chicago Boston Silicon Valley 100

Agile VC

MAY 21, 2012

May 21, 2012. Here in 2012 you’ve already seen the first $100M+ acquisitions for LinkedIn (Slideshare), Zynga (OMGPop, Draw Something), and Facebook (Instagram) and it’s probably only a matter of time before Groupon does one. 10 July 2012, 7:05 pm Why Do VC’s Have Ownership Targets? How To Think About The Future.

Acquisition 162

Acquisition Silicon Valley B2B Seed Stage 162

Agile VC

APRIL 27, 2012

April 27, 2012. 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. 10 July 2012, 7:05 pm Why Do VC’s Have Ownership Targets?

Silicon Valley 124

Silicon Valley Seed Stage Syndicate Syndication 124

Agile VC

AUGUST 2, 2011

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. 10 July 2012, 7:05 pm Why Do VC’s Have Ownership Targets? And Why 20%?

Silicon Valley 113

Silicon Valley Seed Stage Syndicate Syndication 113

Agile VC

AUGUST 22, 2011

Microsoft has two massive platforms in Windows and Xbox, and has been thrashing about for a decade trying to build one in mobile. 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.

Silicon Valley 113

Silicon Valley Seed Stage Startup Syndicate 113

Agile VC

MAY 23, 2012

May 23, 2012. Al Gore's 2012 Induction to the Internet Hall of Fame. 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.

Internet 182

Internet Silicon Valley IPO Seed Stage 182

Agile VC

OCTOBER 17, 2011

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. 10 July 2012, 7:05 pm Why Do VC’s Have Ownership Targets? And Why 20%?

Silicon Valley 133

Silicon Valley Seed Stage Syndicate Syndication 133

Agile VC

DECEMBER 5, 2011

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. 10 July 2012, 7:05 pm Why Do VC’s Have Ownership Targets? And Why 20%?

Silicon Valley 100

Silicon Valley Seed Stage Syndicate Syndication 100

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

February 7, 2012. 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. 10 July 2012, 7:05 pm Why Do VC’s Have Ownership Targets?

South Korea 124

South Korea Seed Stage Silicon Valley Syndicate 124

Agile VC

JANUARY 18, 2012

January 18, 2012. 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. 10 July 2012, 7:05 pm Why Do VC’s Have Ownership Targets?

Entrepreneur 100

Entrepreneur Cofounder Silicon Valley Seed Stage 100

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

February 21, 2012. 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. 10 July 2012, 7:05 pm Why Do VC’s Have Ownership Targets?

LP 100

LP Seed Stage Silicon Valley Limited Partner 100

Agile VC

JANUARY 12, 2012

The Difference Between “No” and “Not Yet” January 12, 2012. 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.

Seed Stage 100

Seed Stage Silicon Valley Syndicate Syndication 100

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

February 2, 2012. Filing Date : February 1, 2012. How They Do It : Operate a social network at Facebook.com, through Facebook’s mobile apps, and the Facebook Platform which lets other websites extend Facebook’s tools for authentication and social sharing. They don’t even run ads in the FB mobile apps.

IPO 100

IPO South Korea Venezuela Revenue 100

Agile VC

JANUARY 27, 2012

January 27, 2012. 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. 10 July 2012, 7:05 pm Why Do VC’s Have Ownership Targets?

Hockey Stick 113

Hockey Stick Seed Stage Silicon Valley Syndicate 113

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

February 28, 2012. And when I say reservation price I don’t just mean valuation… I mean the broad contours of a round that you’d be willing to do which includes not just valuation but size of the raise, syndicate, etc. 10 July 2012, 7:05 pm Why Do VC’s Have Ownership Targets? How To Think About The Future.

Early Stage 100

Early Stage Syndicate Syndication Silicon Valley 100

Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

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. 10 July 2012, 7:05 pm Why Do VC’s Have Ownership Targets? And Why 20%?

Silicon Valley 100

Silicon Valley Seed Stage Syndicate Syndication 100

Agile VC

MAY 16, 2012

May 16, 2012. 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. 10 July 2012, 7:05 pm Why Do VC’s Have Ownership Targets?

Seed Stage 124

Seed Stage Silicon Valley B2B Syndicate 124

Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

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. 10 July 2012, 7:05 pm Why Do VC’s Have Ownership Targets? And Why 20%?

Silicon Valley 100

Silicon Valley Private Equity Seed Stage Syndicate 100

Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

This company will remain in stealth mode for at least a little while and it isn’t my place to divulge their plans, but we’re very excited about the founding team, market opportunity, and syndicate we will be part of. For starters we take a very, very long term view of internet innovation (more on this below).

Internet 100

Internet Stealth Cofounder Seed Stage 100

Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

This company will remain in stealth mode for at least a little while and it isn’t my place to divulge their plans, but we’re very excited about the founding team, market opportunity, and syndicate we will be part of. For starters we take a very, very long term view of internet innovation (more on this below).

Internet 100

Internet Stealth Cofounder Seed Stage 100

Agile VC

MARCH 18, 2012

March 18, 2012. 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. 10 July 2012, 7:05 pm Why Do VC’s Have Ownership Targets?

Media 113

Media Advertising Silicon Valley Revenue 113

Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

March 8, 2012. 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. 10 July 2012, 7:05 pm Why Do VC’s Have Ownership Targets?

IPO 100

IPO Silicon Valley Revenue Seed Stage 100

Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

July 11, 2012. 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. 10 July 2012, 7:05 pm Why Do VC’s Have Ownership Targets?

Silicon Valley 240

Silicon Valley Carried Interest Cofounder Boston 240

Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That’s Never Happened. June 12, 2012. Mobile payments are the trillion dollar industry that everybody’s been waiting for but has never materialized. But nearly everyone has wrongly placed emphasis on the mobile technology part and not on the payments aspect.

Mobile 250

Mobile Disintermediation SMS Government 250

blogs.hbr.org

OCTOBER 24, 2012

DIGITAL & MOBILE. by Kathryn Minshew | 9:00 AM October 18, 2012. In thirty days, I went from no relationships at Yahoo to three warm introductions to power players who could make my desired content syndication partnership happen. HBR Mobile. Harvard Business Mobile. Follow HBR: Twitter. NewsLetter. Last 7 Days.

Networking 109

Networking New York City Syndicate Syndication 109

Professor VC

APRIL 1, 2010

This will both reduce the number of angel investors and make it more difficult to syndicate across stage lines. ► 2012. (1). The Most Obvious Mobile Ad Unit and What the New York Times Got Wrong. Social-Mobile-LOCAL: “Local” Will Be The Biggest of the Three. April 21, 2010 9:26 PM. Post a Comment.

Term Sheet 32

Term Sheet Angel Investor San Jose Venture Capital 32

Rob Go

JANUARY 8, 2014

We don’t invest in “syndicates A rounds” as our first point of entry into a company. Sector: We invest in internet and mobile innovation. Syndicates: We have a bias to lead rounds. We also have a pretty broad range of syndicates that we are a part of. Surprisingly few seed funds operate this way.

Syndicate 45

Syndicate Syndication Portfolio Advertising 45

mashable.com

JULY 10, 2012

July 10, 2012 by Curt Finch. Mobile devices are fast becoming the preferred method of accessing the web. According to Think Mobile with Google : 81% of smartphone users access the Internet on their mobile devices. However, there is a “dark side” for physical stores when it comes to mobile devices. Like Tweet.

eCommerce 101

eCommerce Software Review Technical Review Social Media 101

mashable.com

JANUARY 18, 2012

World Featured in US & World Videos Featured: Facebook CES 2012 Awards. January 16, 2012 by Nellie Akalp. January 16, 2012 14:04:54. January 16, 2012 14:10:08. January 16, 2012 14:24:44. January 16, 2012 16:40:38. January 16, 2012 20:26:07. January 17, 2012 06:37:33. Abstract or dead simple?

Naming 97

Naming Social Media Social Network RSS 97

Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

One of my comments was that we would likely see more institutionalization of angel groups and syndication of deals among groups. ► 2012. (1). The Most Obvious Mobile Ad Unit and What the New York Times Got Wrong. Social-Mobile-LOCAL: “Local” Will Be The Biggest of the Three. November 22, 2009 2:03 AM.

Pre-Money Valuation 28

Pre-Money Valuation Angel Investor Angel Groups Valuation 28

mashable.com

JANUARY 23, 2012

World Featured in US & World Videos Featured: Facebook CES 2012 Awards. January 21, 2012 by Nellie Akalp. The Most-Shared 2012 Super Bowl Ad Teasers So Far [VIDEOS]. January 21, 2012 17:53:09. January 21, 2012 19:11:24. January 22, 2012 07:43:33. January 22, 2012 12:58:54. Trending Stories.

LLC 68

LLC Technical Review Social Media Startup 68

mashable.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

February 9, 2012 by Ann Smarty. February 9, 2012 14:28:44. February 9, 2012 14:46:14. February 9, 2012 15:20:40. February 9, 2012 14:56:25. February 9, 2012 15:20:12. February 9, 2012 15:00:23. February 9, 2012 15:05:56. February 9, 2012 15:19:24. February 9, 2012 15:17:45.

Social Media 108

Social Media Analytics Media API 108

mashable.com

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Facebook 2012: What the Future Holds for the Social Media Powerhouse. As the innovation engines of the economy, what startups figured out in 2011 will likely appear on other sectors’ trend lists in 2012. This year, mobile phones, GPS and services like Craigslist combined to make real-time and location-based history.

New York City 83

New York City New York Startup Social Media 83

mashable.com

JANUARY 13, 2012

World Featured in US & World Videos Featured: Facebook CES 2012 Awards. January 13, 2012 by Brian Sullivan. Let #Gigya drop some knowledge on you: January 13, 2012 15:15:23. January 13, 2012 15:51:33. January 13, 2012 16:20:18. January 13, 2012 16:43:56. January 13, 2012 16:45:27. Trending Stories.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Social Media Social Network RSS 78

Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

I am no longer an insider, so dont have any view into current financials, but do know that total financing is now 10X the original plan and at the current accelerating growth rate, revenues will still not hit that $185M until 2012 or 2013, so double the time. ► 2012. (1). Guess that means I had less experience than as well.

San Jose 28

San Jose Angel Investor Term Sheet Venture Capital 28