Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. Salesforce.com is a startup with 76,000 subscribers (over 2.1M Reid assembled the founding team drawing largely from his prior startups, with a few other folks he’d known for a long time. May 26, 2011.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. It also puts another chink in the armor of the meme that monster internet companies can only be built in Silicon Valley (LivingSocial, Kayak, Gilt Groupe, CSN Stores, et al doing damage here too). But even in Boston & Chicago it remains above $20. How To Think About The Future.

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North America Chicago Boston Silicon Valley 100

Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Urbanization of Startups. I spent some time with some startups in San Francisco proper, as opposed to the heart of Silicon Valley (see Note 1). Also all the big anchor companies that a startup might want to partner with at that time (eBay, Google, Oracle, Yahoo!, April 13, 2012.

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Silicon Valley San Francisco San Jose Startup 185

Agile VC

MAY 10, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. NextView is thrilled to have co-led this round along with our friends at SoftTech VC and Farmeron’s existing investors 500 Startups, Seedcamp, and TAG. When you think of web-enabled startups, farms don’t instantly spring to mind. May 10, 2012. seed round today. Read More ».

Silicon Valley 223

Silicon Valley Cofounder Seed Stage Syndicate 223

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Sign in All Social Media Tech & Gadgets Business & Marketing Video Mobile Dev & Design Media Social Good Startups Classifieds Mashable Infographics Prev Next How Are People Using Twitter? The result is an infographic that dives into the educational and corporate characteristics of the typical startup founder.

San Francisco 99

San Francisco New York City Social Media Entrepreneur 99

Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. I have some limited experience in dealing with patents though, both from my time as a VC and also back in my own startup days. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future.

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IP IPO Social Network Silicon Valley 100

Gust

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Speaking with many angel leaders , I believe we have identified several possible explanations for group-to-group variations: 1) Clearly, startup ventures in some business verticals command high pre-money valuations that others. Here is the data for the eight groups in these three areas: (a) Boston (3 groups) – $2.5 Wilmington, NC.

Angel Groups 125

Angel Groups Valuation Pre-Money Valuation St. Louis 125

Agile VC

JANUARY 27, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Something has clearly changed within the last 5-6 years in terms of the speed with which monster startups are created in the software and internet space. Multi-billion dollar valuations for late stage startups like Dropbox, et al. Are Google-Scale Outcomes More Frequent?

Hockey Stick 113

Hockey Stick Seed Stage Silicon Valley Syndicate 113

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. After all, our startup is on a fixed budget.

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Software Review Engineer Management Technical Review 164

Agile VC

OCTOBER 17, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Comcast’s Internet Essentials program ), education, and non-profit initiatives a broad swath of the American public now has a broadband connected computer at home. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC.

Silicon Valley 133

Silicon Valley Seed Stage Syndicate Syndication 133

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. We’re thrilled to have among our limited partners a select group of individuals from the startup ecosystem as well as several large institutional investors (including a university endowment, a corporate pension fund, and a multi-family office). How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC.

LP 100

LP Seed Stage Silicon Valley Limited Partner 100

Agile VC

MAY 16, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Thematic investing is where VCs research a macro trend or specific market, form a thesis around why this trend/market will serve as a good basis for building great startups, and then pursue as many exceptional investments in this theme as appropriate for the VC’s strategy. May 16, 2012.

Seed Stage 124

Seed Stage Silicon Valley B2B Syndicate 124

Agile VC

AUGUST 12, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. The simple answer is “be able to convince a partnership of smart investors that your startup has a good probability of being a $100M+ revenue company within 5ish years.” How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. August 12, 2011.

Seed Stage 113

Seed Stage Silicon Valley B2B Acquisition 113

Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. I remember when it was a rare, extraordinary thing for a software/internet startup to even file an S-1. What’s the impact for early-stage startups? If you look at newly public companies in the software & internet sector you see a wide spread. March 8, 2012.

IPO 100

IPO Silicon Valley Revenue Seed Stage 100

Rob Go

JANUARY 8, 2014

We don’t invest in “syndicates A rounds” as our first point of entry into a company. Sector: We invest in internet and mobile innovation. Syndicates: We have a bias to lead rounds. We also have a pretty broad range of syndicates that we are a part of. Surprisingly few seed funds operate this way.

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Syndicate Syndication Portfolio Advertising 45

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. I recently wrote a post noting that while the growth cycle of startups has clearly accelerated in the last 5 years, the number of truly monster new businesses (a company ultimately worth $75-100B) remains about the same … it’s a once in a decade sort of thing. February 2, 2012.

IPO 100

IPO South Korea Venezuela Revenue 100

Rob Go

JANUARY 7, 2013

Sectorwise, we focus on internet-driven innovation and believe that we are currently straddling two converging technology waves. Geography: 20 / 25 investments are based in the Boston and New York areas. Syndicate Composition: NextView + Seed Funds + Angels: 9. We rarely look for opportunities to invest in larger rounds.

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Portfolio Seed Stage Cofounder B2B 49