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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

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Now that Google’s acquisition of ITA is closed, following lenghty FTC review, it would appear Kayak is poised to proceed with their IPO in the coming months. =. What They Do: Travel search engine. What They Do: Travel search engine. Search Statistics: 2010 Queries: 634 million. Kayak Software Corporation.

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Groupon's S-1: From Zero to Like? Billions in 30 Months ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

How They Do It: Build email list of consumers interested in local deals (mainly via paid search & social network ads), sell coupon programs to merchants via telesales. Keep in mind Yipit is an indirect competitor in the daily deals space (essentially a meta aggregator of deals sites), but the analysis is sound IMO.

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Should Startups Blog? An Essay (with Data) to Decide Once and For All

View from Seed

So the question needs to be asked: Should seed-stage startups even blog in the first place? Think of it this way: Even in the seed stage, before most companies find product-market fit, they understand the problems they’re trying to solve. It’s simply about solving problems.

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Introducing the NextView Talent Exchange: Connecting Top Talent to Startups

Genuine VC

One of my first mentors in venture capital explained to me that the key role of a VC is to “aggregate talent.” At NextView Ventures, we’re hyper-focused on the seed stage, and since starting the firm, we’ve heard repeatedly and consistently from founders that a primary challenge they face during that stage is hiring.

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Tech IPOs Are Back ? So Now What? ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

And finally margins matter… a $50-100M software company can go public given it’s 80-90% gross margins, an e-commerce company with 20-30% gross margins and high customer acquisition costs needs to be much bigger (probably 5-10x at least). I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

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Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That's Never - AgileVC

Agile VC

But while it was a little less understood outside the payments world, their acquisition of TxVia theoretically gives them some of the plumbing they’d need to create a store of value or couple a Google mobile payments product to existing financial accounts. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

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Startup Resources

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Whether you’re wondering what site search you should use or what is the best email marketing tool, knowledge is power. Â Search for apps tools. Google Custom Search Engine. great web customer acquisition tutorials. Search Engine Optimization Tools. Outlook plugin to search. Ad Promotion. Linkedin Ads.