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

View from Seed

As my partner Rob Go has written , our goal is to invest half in consumer web and mobile and half in business-focused ventures. We’ve been remarkably consistent on this dimension as well: five of the recent 13 investments were B2C, five were B2B, and three you could categorize as B2B2C. The “Internet of Things”.

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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Smart Contracts – Powering the internet-native financial system, smart contract networks could generate fees of $450bn in 2030. Bitcoin Allocation – Growing the role of bitcoin in investment portfolios. Reusable Rockets – Satellite connectivity revenues could exceed $130bn per year in 2030.

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2010 VC Funding Outlook for Startups – Prepare for Winter (Part 3/3)

Both Sides of the Table

It affects even B2B companies because ultimately most must sell to companies who sell to consumers and if they suffer they cut back on suppliers. Check out this interesting piece on PEHub talking about how Stanford is discreetly looking to sell it’s asset portfolio ! Consumer spending is where I’m dubious.

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Revenue = Product Market Fit

Agile VC

Most consumer web/mobile companies focus on user growth and usage early in the company’s lifecycle before shifting to monetization. But B2B startups need to take a different tack. We invest in internet enabled companies at NextView and our portfolio is roughly equally split between consumer and B2B businesses.

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Twitter Link Roundup #286 – Ideas for Small Business, Startups, and Designers!

crowdSPRING Blog

IdN Motion Gallery on Pratt Portfolios crowdspring.co/1OaQlOL. Logo for B2B buying group crowdspring.co/1UxyZgU. What mobile ad blocking looks like in the real world crowdspring.co/1ijixEW. The Internet of Way Too Many Things nytimes.com/2015/09/06/opi…. The Push Pin Pantheon – Print Magazine crowdspring.co/1iji3ii.

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Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire – VP of Sales, CTO, VP of Engineering

This is going to be BIG.

We realized that there were certain open positions in our portfolio we wanted to call extra attention to. Monetate Mobile adds mobile-native navigation, search, GPS store location, cart access and more, to any site, overnight. A week or so ago, we launched the Key Hire Wire at First Round. " "Hit it."

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Opportunistic & Thematic Investing ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

We also invest only in software & internet enabled businesses. And we invest in US-based startups, primarily on the US east coast though we’ll consider other parts of country on a selective basis (roughly 15-20% of our portfolio is in the SF Bay area). Read More ».