VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Digital Wallets – Digital wallets could grow select vertical software platforms’ revenues to $27-$50bn in 2030. Bitcoin Allocation – Growing the role of bitcoin in investment portfolios. Verticalized Video Understanding – machine interpreted video.

Artificial Inteligence 176

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review Generative AI 176

View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2018

We dove deep into how this investment thesis extends to major verticals of consumer spending like entertainment , clothing , and home. We think there are two main categories of Everyday Economy B2B startups: enabling layers and pervasive tools. Types of B2B Everyday Economy Companies. Let me explain. 1) Enabling Layers.

B2B 120

B2B B2C Vertical Portfolio 120

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

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.

Revenue 234

Revenue Product B2B Marketing 234

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Attaining that level of attribution—the key to improving outcome measurement—breaks down in a couple of spots: Web analytics. The amount of data you pass from your web analytics tool(s) to your CRM is a major fault line. It starts with having the right data in the system,” noted Kamil Rextin, who wrote about B2B attribution.

Demand 132

Demand Vertical Campaign Channel 132

Rob Go

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Consumer web is overheated. In our own portfolio, we’ve made a few investments here. Custommade takes the difficult process of finding an artisan to craft a custom product and brings it to life on the web. B2B and especially SMB SaaS: We see B2B and especially SMB software to be a large and attractive category.

B2B 62

B2B Internet Vertical Early Stage 62

Rob Go

JULY 11, 2013

This isn’t true for every single one of our portfolio companies, but in at least half, we had a thesis about why this company had some sort of unfair advantage or head-start when it comes to getting their product out into the market. This is increasingly true in both consumer and business facing companies.

Distribution 66

Distribution Vertical Viral B2B 66

alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

Back in 1998 when Times New Roman was still widely used on the web, my then boss made sure we always designed our web sites with Arial, as she hated the look of serif fonts on the web. Ascenders and are the vertical strokes which rise above the body of a character or x-height. Sans serif are better on the web.

Technical Review 85

Technical Review Software Review Design Web 85