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Internet/Media: 5 things that will define 2011

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Some observations from Bipul Sinha about the internet and media industry in 2011. With over half a billion users and open graph integration, Facebook is the Internet with social graph at its core. The aggregation of such high-intent traffic is what makes Google a formidable force on the Internet. Year of Social Utilities.

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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

I’ve recently come across several of such lists and I thought it could be useful to aggregate them and share them here. Smart Contracts – Powering the internet-native financial system, smart contract networks could generate fees of $450bn in 2030.

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2011 Consumer Internet Predictions

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Before I try gazing into my crystal ball to see what 2011 will bring for the consumer internet industry, let me first see how I did on last years predictions: 1. Foursquare and Gowalla have grown too, but off of much lower bases, such that only 4% of internet users currently use a check-in service. A Lightspeed Portfolio company.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. Other VCs use Contently * or Social Native * to create relevant content.

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What will discovery look like in Web 3.0?

Version One Ventures

As the Internet is starting to evolve into Web 3.0, are products that aggregate data. One example is our portfolio company Defined that is aggregating data on tokens across different exchanges and blockchains. . As the web matured and scaled, two new and more web-native paradigms emerged: search and social.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. Meyler Capital is taking the analytical rigor of modern internet marketing and applying it to fund marketing. 8) Accelerate portfolio company value. 9% (1 / 12).

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Portfolio POV: What’s Trending on Everipedia?

Mucker Lab

Editor’s Note: This guest post is the first of an ongoing series offering up an insider-point of view from a portfolio company. Everipedia is more than just a crowdsourced encyclopedia – it is an information aggregator that provides deep insight into a vast array of fields. Guest post by Dave Liebowitz.