Advertising Early Stage Internet Seed Stage 
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 16, 2010
The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion. Here’s my take: 1. That’s OK.
Agile VC
MAY 26, 2011
is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. One partnership was clearly very divided and a vocal minority of GPs thought consumer internet companies were a massive waste of time and money.
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Mucker Lab
JANUARY 1, 2014
Native advertising goes “RTB” and thus becomes an oxymoron (hold on, its already an oxymoron). Apple finally decides to spend its cash hoard on buying internet companies instead of just on building cool campuses (RIP Cupertino Village and Fantasia? ).
Mucker Lab
JANUARY 1, 2014
VC’s accelerate investments in “internet of things” except sometime in Q4, wake up and realize it’s no different than “consumer electronics” – and that we still need to innovate around the manufacturing infrastructure, distribution economics, and consumer liability of the consumer goods business to really make this a venture fundable category.
The Next Web
FEBRUARY 24, 2014
Much of the slack at seed stage funding is taken up by the Russian state. In sharp contrast to the US and UK governments, in 2013, the Russian Government provided around 38 percent of seed deals and 24 percent of startup stage funding. The role of the Russian Government. Russian tech: Sectors to watch.
Business Plan Blog
JANUARY 2, 2014
In September of this year, the SEC voted to overturn the ban on “general solicitation” that made it illegal for companies to publicly advertise that they are raising capital. As this funding vehicle develops, experts anticipate that many of the best crowdfunding rounds of investment will be “led” by angel groups or seed stage funds.
Rob Go
JUNE 3, 2014
But primarily, I think capital for early stage companies should be discussed in an offensive manner. As seed stage investors, we find that we tend to prefer modest sized rounds early on to focus a team and establish discipline around being excellent at one thing and proving things out efficiently. Data Scale.
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