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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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Twitter Link Roundup #198 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

Great post on the most important internet metric of them all – CONVERSION – crowdspring.co/18u6N8Y. Great post on the most important internet metric of them all – CONVERSION – crowdspring.co/18u6N8Y. Great post on the most important internet metric of them all – CONVERSION – crowdspring.co/18u6N8Y.

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Introducing NextView III and Our Focus on the Everyday Economy

View from Seed

Internet-connected computing is an innovation wave on par with a few historical developments of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Conventional wisdom has it that the internet is towards the end of this cycle — and many VCs are on the hunt for the next platform, whether it be blockchain, or AI, or synthetic biology, or what have you.

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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. Point Nine Capital uses Qwilr to create modern, mobile-native collateral.

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From Israel to Pakistan, Community is Key When Building a Startup (Google I/O)

VC Cafe

It created awesome companies, but the army doesn’t do ecommerce, or much mobile, which are now the biggest growth engines in startups. When I moved to VC, I found out that there were no good consumer internet startups. Jeff – we look at mobile, consumer Internet, games and SaaS. They were sporadic.

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Special: The 56 Israeli Companies Exhibiting in Mobile World Congress 2011

VC Cafe

The Mobile World Congress , possibly the largest International technology conference and definitely the most important mobile conference of the year is taking place in Barcelona this February 14-17. Mobile Apps and App stores – a new ecosystem was created and it’s here to stay (Check out LogiaGroup, Waze and Cellint).

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

He also combed the portfolios of VC firms and talked to people at start-ups, he says. which makes a mobile app that rewards shoppers for creating a personal shopping mall and following their favorite stores. INTERNET BUSINESSES. Consumer Services (B2C). General Internet. - Computer And Internet. Software. -