Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

When you’re company is growing >10x year over year, I suppose if management didn’t invest a lot in continued growth their board directors would line them up against the wall. The folks at Yipit did a detailed analyis of the Boston data and concluded Groupon’s model is deteriorating there. Read More ».

North America 100

North America Chicago Boston Silicon Valley 100

Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

Groupon didn’t manage to get out until November and Zynga in December. And even if your startup is unlikely to IPO someday, an aggregate increase in the number of public tech companies (coupled with large cash piles for big established ones) should make the M&A climate more favorable in coming years. Author howerl.

IPO 100

IPO Silicon Valley Revenue Seed Stage 100

Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

In fact my first job as an early employee of PayPal was as Product Manager responsible for our mobile products (WAP-enabled cell phones and our legacy Palm Pilot IR port product) and the first international version of PayPal. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Read More ».

Mobile 250

Mobile Disintermediation SMS Government 250