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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Our Recent Seed-Stage VC Investments

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Two weeks ago, my partners and I here at NextView Ventures announced our second fund. As my partner Rob Go has written , our goal is to invest half in consumer web and mobile and half in business-focused ventures. Furthermore, one of our recent investments was in Silicon Valley, as all three of us have lived and worked there.

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

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They are fully fungible for hard currency through Safaricom’s network of retail partners for either the sender or recipient of an M-Pesa mobile payment. If massively succesful, Isis might disintermediate the companies that manufacturer plastic payment cards and perhaps the companies that make mag stripe hardware (e.g.

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