VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2023

With the increasing competition in the mobile gaming market, developers are recognising the need to keep players engaged and invested in their games for longer periods of time in order to drive monetisation and retention.

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David Teten

MAY 29, 2013

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), ff Venture Capital, and The Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York are once again co-sponsoring Flashpoint’s upcoming New York Demo Day, on Friday, June 14, 2013, 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM. The event will be held at SUNY Global Center, 116 East 55th Street, New York, NY.

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David Teten

MAY 29, 2013

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), ff Venture Capital, and The Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York are once again co-sponsoring Flashpoint’s upcoming New York Demo Day, on Friday, June 14, 2013, 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM. The event will be held at SUNY Global Center, 116 East 55th Street, New York, NY.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

think about the entrepreneurs that started in the early days of the Internet, mobile, crypto, VR and yes… now Metaverse. Google is perhaps not synonymous with the metaverse, but the company has already invested billions in the future of AR, VR, XR and 3D content in the cloud. Unity’s recent $4.4

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IP Cofounder Valuation Acquisition 206

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. Today we’re online 3.1

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

The Equity Kicker

MARCH 28, 2014

The obvious reason for this is mobile internet penetration: We’ve gone from an internet population of 55 million users to nearly three billion, and smartphone users are expected to grow from 1.5 Venture Capital' The ultimate market size that this current generation of tech companies can go after dwarfs that of previous ones.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Early Stage Cloud 125

Scalable Startup

JULY 20, 2013

These are now done either transparently in the background, in the cloud, or done using minimally invasive mobile apps. We wouldn’t be able to imagine our lives without it, auto-save, no software loads, freemuim, mobile, access anywhere. The software just doesn’t leave it’s cloud hosts anymore.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2012

To be successful, a venture needs this laser focus. Most of the firms had some critical component that had something to do with using Web protocols or the cloud. Dining Circle runs in the cloud rather than the dedicated PCs that OpenTable.com provides to their restaurant customers. Mobile is where the action is.

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VC Cafe

MAY 23, 2023

As I mentioned in my post on the LLM Benchmarking , venture capital investment in AI startups was down 43% in Q1 2023. So one way to think about it is no different from how we have thought about maybe the personal computing shift, the internet shift, the mobile shift. So along that dimension, I think it’s a big shift.”

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VC Cafe

JUNE 22, 2010

V odafone’s venture capital arm made a strategic minority investment in Israeli startup Perfecto Mobile , joining previous backers Carmel Ventures and Vertex Venture Capital who invested $7 million ten months ago. Since its inception in 2006, Perfecto Mobile has raised approximately $19 million.

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Cloud Mobile Venture Capital Community 107

David Teten

AUGUST 15, 2013

1) Corporate Venture Capital. Most VCs (including ff Venture Capital ) collect money from independent limited partners in order to form their fund. For example, Qualcomm Ventures hosts an international business plan competition called QPrize , which targets mobile technology startups. 3) Freebies.

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Startup Technical Support Venture Capital Balance Sheet 114

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. If you want to know more about them and why they grew so rapidly I’ve written about them here ( online / offline mobile ad integration ) & here ( the most obvious mobile phone ad unit ).

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Technical Review Early Stage Software Review Los Angeles 325

thebarefootvc

AUGUST 13, 2013

Client-server has moved to the cloud (dramatically decreasing the cost of software development and deployment), and mobile apps are everywhere. Entrepreneurship Startups Technology Uncategorized Venture Capital cloud computing enterprise IBM internet Salesforce SAP software startups' Fast forward to 2013.

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Advisory Board Cloud Venture Capital Vertical 70

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The book has been shepherded and edited by a great Japanese VC at Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Venture Capital, Takashi Tsutsumi, with help from Masato Iino. When I told him, “two more days,” he asked, “Are you interested in meeting with venture firms in the Valley?” ————-.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Monetate Mobile adds mobile-native navigation, search, GPS store location, cart access and more, to any site, overnight. The ideal candidate has experience with eCommerce systems, emerging mobile and social technologies, as well as RoR. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology nextNY.

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Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Engineer Sales 92

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

How to outsource everything to the cloud (except yourself) – [link]. How to outsource everything to the cloud (except yourself) – [link]. Venture capital remains white boys club – [link]. The Future of Advertising: Everything’s Going Mobile – [link]. What Good Does Design Do For Business?

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

The past year saw startups on the rise, an increase in venture capital funding (both in real dollars and numbers of companies funded), a resurgence of IPOs, and the rise of David against Goliath, as best represented by Groupon’s spurning of a $6 billion offer from Google. Investors will be bullish on startups.

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Technical Review Venture Capital India Startup 93

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 24, 2012

The second category is composed of companies that have developed a unique IP locally and marketed it worldwide - typically in the gaming, software, security or mobile sectors. mobile phone per person for the Top 4 EE countries (vs. in GE, 1.3 in Brazil and 0.8 This low entry barrier should accelerate the pace of innovation.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Why We’re Pivoting from Mobile-first to Web-first – [link]. The Biggest Problem in Mobile: Retention – [link]. Want Venture Capital Funding? The Biggest Problem in Mobile: Retention – [link]. 20 Creative Business Card Designs | Pixel Clouds – [link]. What’s the secret to a great team?

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 14, 2013

“The results of programs like 500 Startups, Techstars, and Y-Combinator are well known, but due to the culture here in Europe there’s still a lot of unknowns in terms of the track record for follow on funding and results of accelerator programs based in Europe,” says Don Ritzen, co-founder and CEO of Rockstart Accelerator.

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Silicon Valley Europe Venture Capital Incubator 231

thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

In India, two female journalists launched a mobile app to allow women to report harrassment and abuse, an issue in their hometown of Delhi and throughout the world. Applications such as Xtify , Local Response , and Placecast provided turnkey mobile solutions for retailers to target consumers.

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Technical Review India Mobile Hockey Stick 110

Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2016

First, the shift away from desktop computers to mobile devices meant that Intel’s power-hungry x86 processors weren’t suitable. All of Intel’s resources – fabs, manufacturing strategies, and most importantly executive mindset — were geared towards large, expensive x86 processors, not low-cost mobile cores of someone else’s design.

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BeyondVC

JULY 31, 2008

Venture Capital firms continue to invest in companies that are providing answers to key disruptive market forces and are exiting those investments via M&A. We are continuing to move to a broadband connected world, where everything that we do on a device increasingly lives in the cloud. The Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc.

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Jordan Exit Strategy IPO Semantic 60

Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

In the stealth phase , prescient angel investors and Venture Capitalists (VCs) start investing in an industry or market segment that others have not yet found. In the case of this bubble, it was social networks, consumer and mobile applications, and the cloud. Filed under: Venture Capital.

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Silicon Valley Stealth Valuation Mississippi 327

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Palm (acquired by HP ) – In our interview we talked about how transformational mobile computing is and why it’s different than web computing (e.g. There weren’t enough details to know whether Corduro was trying to build a mobile payments company like Zong or a retail merchant processing solution like Square.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 17, 2011

Smart Money are prescient angel investors and Venture Capitalists who started investing in social networks, consumer and mobile applications and the cloud 3, 4 or 5 years ago. Do the new wave of social/web/mobile/cloud companies going public have valuations which exceeds their fundamental value by a large margin?

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Investment Bankers Stock Valuation Venture Capital 310

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Earlier this year the online lending platform called SoFi made a big splash by running a Super Bowl commercial that was aimed at appealing to millennials who are upwardly mobile. A mobile wallet cloud-based platform is offered by Paydiant Inc. It has raised over $35 million in venture capital funds. Paydiant Inc.

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San Francisco Investment Bankers Algorithm Mobile 100

Gust

DECEMBER 22, 2011

The gulf has widened with the proliferation of social Internet / user-generated content and mobile application startups. Today, it can sign one deal with a cloud service provider such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) to replace all of the above. Tech startups are at the other extreme. Instagram is a textbook example.)

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). 406 Ventures. Offers cloud-based web analytics software provider.

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Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

Austin Startup

AUGUST 13, 2018

“What B&M Brands Can Learn From eCommerce” with Ryan Wuerch @ Dosh With 94 percent of all retail purchases still taking place in brick and mortar locations, it’s time brands unlock the full potential of mobile technology. Vote ] Thanks for reading.

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Austin Technical Review Cofounder Texas 48

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Venture capitalists say they plan to invest more next year, according to a survey released today by the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) and Dow Jones VentureSource. The survey polled 330 venture capitalists and 180 CEOs for their thoughts on where they see investment headed in 2011.

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Early Stage Venture Capital Cloud Mobile 116

VC Cafe

MARCH 7, 2010

Perfecto Mobile Handset Cloud service now on Sony Ericsson - According to Forrester Research, testing is the fastest growing segment of the applications outsourcing industry. billion in the US to create new jobs – what is the impact on the venture capital industry? Seed Startup docs from Marc Andreessen.

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Term Sheet Venture Capital Mobile Cloud 84

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Be inspired by the tech world’s latest web, mobile and social breakthroughs to create simple, life-improving technologies and viable businesses among a rich and diverse community of cutting edge developers. VentureBeat Mobile Summit. Google I/O. Social Media Marketing World. InfusionCon. Social Media Strategies Summit.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 3, 2013

Look back to the reasons why there was a Cambrian explosion of seed funding in the first place – a dramatic reduction in the initial capital requirements to launch a new company because of cloud hosting infrastructure, social graph distribution platforms, open source and low-cost development tools/methods, etc.

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Seed Stage Venture Capital Audience New York 166

YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2012

The program, which began in January this year, provided them with seed funding, intensive mentorship from international industry experts and the potential to access mobile markets across Asia. Think of ShopSpot as a mobile version of eBay – a phone app that allows consumers to easily buy and sell items. Kark Mobile Education.

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Singapore Asia Startup B2C 145

BeyondVC

JANUARY 12, 2009

 As I look around post-holiday season, I am seeing more and more regular, non-technical friends and family get connected on their mobile devices.    Clearly that was just the beginning of a longer term trend for mobile devices to get more powerful, easier to use, and more widely deployed into the market. 

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Mobile SMS Venture Capital Web 60

VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

After covering Google startup outreach and support (from first hand experience), today I’m happy to add Amazon and AWS, by looking into the variety of ways startups can engage with the commerce and cloud giant. The Alexa Fund also provides up to $200 million in venture capital funding to fuel voice technology innovation.

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Technical Review Startup Venture Capital Incubator 174