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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Our Recent Seed-Stage VC Investments

View from Seed

The internet continues the disintermediation of content creation. Network Effect B2B. Most often, when people talk about “network effects,” they’re referring to consumer-facing startups. But network effects can be an integral component of business-focused services as well. Empowering Content Creators.

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FLoC: Google’s Plan to Kill Off Third-Party Cookies

ConversionXL

The solution has to balance four variables: Revenue for publishers that sell ad space; Targeting capability for ad networks; Return on ad spend for ad buyers; Privacy for users who see ads. But without third-party cookies, what’s a display network to do? FLoC tries to solve the simpler problem—interest-based targeting. Image source ).

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Winners and Losers in the Coming Crowdfunding World

Growthink Blog

While the crowdfunding portion of the bill still needs to go through SEC rule-making, the die is clearly cast that a whole new social networking – based world of start-up and small business investing and financing is coming fast upon us. This week, the President is expected to pass H.R.

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All GMV is not created equal

A Crowded Space

High-quality marketplaces are constantly building bigger moats and strengthening their network effects. Weak marketplaces suffer from disintermediation, pricing pressure, and destructive competition. Each of these factors can contribute to stronger network effects and help a marketplace build enduring value.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

At Virgin Mobile USA, Mari led early initiatives in mobile commerce, social networking and advertising. Corporate VCs open the door to their parent companies and are well networked in their industries. Corporate VC networks extend beyond their own parent companies. Mari Holds a B.A.

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Growthink Innovation Series: FinTech

Growthink Blog

Quite simply, the digital, mobile, and Internet revolutions are transforming the way customers access financial products and services of all types, and across all consumer and business sectors. What does financial disintermediation really mean? The panelists are: Mr. Rafe Furst , Co-Founder Crowdfunder.

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

Agile VC

They are fully fungible for hard currency through Safaricom’s network of retail partners for either the sender or recipient of an M-Pesa mobile payment. And at the end of the day it appears Isis will just be working with the existing credit card networks Visa, MC, Amex, & Discover. . Good luck to Ben. Is that it?

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