Acquisition B2B Search Seed Stage 
Agile VC
OCTOBER 27, 2011
I’m not the first person to describe this trend, and my prior background has been primarily as a consumer web guy more than in B2B companies. But in the next 5 years the web and mobile app stores will increasingly be a force in selling and customer acquisition for busines software. The lessons learned from consumer Web 2.0
View from Seed
AUGUST 2, 2017
Most of this initial period has been focused on the build-out of core infrastructure: ubiquitous broadband (Cisco, Qualcomm), information search (Yahoo, AOL), mobile & cloud computing (Apple, Samsung, AWS), and the social mesh (Facebook) laid on top. Innovation in search, social, broadband, and mobile & cloud hasn’t come to an end.
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Agile VC
MAY 21, 2012
On the consumer facing side, the number of companies doing multiple acquisitions of $100M+ was extremely short… Google, eBay/PayPal, Amazon, and Microsoft are at the top of the list. On the B2B SaaS side or enabling services (e.g. <$100M) acquisitions for several years now, but they’ve mainly been acquihires.
View from Seed
JANUARY 11, 2023
What success you’re searching for is on you to determine. Pre-Seed & Seed stage startup teams who could benefit from capital and engaged, hands-on mentorship from the NextView partnership & extended advisor network. The thing is though…numbers don’t lie and patterns are important. Let’s do this! . Who You Are.
Agile VC
AUGUST 12, 2011
But unfortunately there’s no magic formula… not getting X million users if you’re a consumer facing startup, or Y customers if you’re B2B SaaS startup, or Z revenue, or whatever. And there are some common precepts seed stage companies can follow. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search.
Agile VC
MAY 16, 2012
At NextView we’ve intentionally taken an approach which combines both thematic and opportunistic investing for a couple reasons: 1) Our Overall Strategy is Highly Focused - We’re a dedicated seed VC fund, so we invest in startups exclusively at the seed stage. Pingback: watch inception online. Pingback: [link].
Agile VC
FEBRUARY 21, 2012
As many of you know, NextView is a seed-stage VC fund. We make initial investments of $250-500K in the seed rounds of software and internet startups and reserve capital for follow-on rounds. Just under half our portfolio is B2B in nature, slightly more than half is consumer-facing in some way. Best of luck. PMarchetti.
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