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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

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Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. Mobile Usage: 8% of 2010 query volume (mobile app download growth of 344% YoY). Distribution revenue is CPC and CPA. . Kayak generates both distribution (i.e.

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The End of ?Internet? Companies ? AGILEVC

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We now only think about “electricity” companies in the narrowest of senses… the small number of businesses (relative to the overall impact of electricity in the economy) that are actually in the business of generating and distributing electrical current. Read More ».

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The Hulu Auction ? Content Is Still King ? AGILEVC

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And distribution rights to that content are still paramount to building digital video businesses. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. That’s why Google paid lots of money to get SNL and other content on YouTube. Read More ».

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Netflix / Qwikster Split Was Brilliant (and Necessary)? 2 Long Term.

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1) Qwikster May Have Different Owner in Longer Term – It was obvious before and it’s explicit now… the future of Netflix is digital distribution. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Read More ».

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The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] ? AGILEVC

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The names of these once great, now defunct firms may not be terribly familiar today but here are just a few examples: American Research & Development [Boston] –> Founded by George Doriot and depending how you count it, either the first or second formal VC firm in the US. Read More ».

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

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Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That’s Never Happened. Mobile payments are the trillion dollar industry that everybody’s been waiting for but has never materialized. But nearly everyone has wrongly placed emphasis on the mobile technology part and not on the payments aspect. June 12, 2012.

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