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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

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We’re a how-to site and community for small business on marketing. . 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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Is ?Data? a Business Model? ? AGILEVC

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Is “Data” a Business Model? March 30, 2012. Several years ago I wrote a post about the three business models of the consumer web : commerce, advertising, and user-paid premium services. 10 July 2012, 7:05 pm Why Do VC’s Have Ownership Targets? How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future.

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Square IPO: Is Square A Good Payments Business?

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swipe transactions) payments for very small merchants who historically did not accept credit cards because of the cost and complexity of dealing with traditional payment solutions (expensive terminals, confusing fee structures, etc). Square really democratized “card present” (e.g. Starbucks Deal. So was the Starbucks deal worth it?

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