Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

And even other strong, but perhaps not standout, companies like Active Network and Demand Media completed their own offerings. Or growth and sound economic policies in developed countries could return quickly. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Bankers licked their chops.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 27, 2011

But in the next 5 years the web and mobile app stores will increasingly be a force in selling and customer acquisition for busines software. 3) UI/UX Matters in B2B - For decades, B2B application developers could skimp on innovating in the presentation layer. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Read More ».

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Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

In the early days of LinkedIn we jointly acquired an issued patent of the defunct SixDegrees.com which directly pertains to social networking as well as acquiring a nascent startup in part for its in-process patent filings. owns a bunch of patents around email, IM, etc), and yes E) social networking. Regarding social networking, Yahoo!

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

China has essentially closed its internal search, media and social network software market to foreign companies who wouldn’t play with the government rules on the Great Firewall. The numbers of mobile subscribers are staggering – 1.18 Several VC’s mentioned that there’s a funding gap for seed stage investments.

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Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 267

BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

To date our messaging has been clear, but we also could not ignore the fact that companies like Plain Vanilla Games took off quickly and became known as the fastest growing mobile game in history. BOLDstart helps founders at the seed stage accelerate their growth from idea/ alpha phase to product market fit and successful Series A round.

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

This is just the next phase of AngelList’s evolution into a one-stop shop for seed-stage companies and their backers. Life360, A Family Networking App With More. Enterprise. Smartphones. Digital Cameras. Headphones. CrunchBase. Hot topics. Disrupt NY. After Raising $6.7M EA's Internal Memo On The Layoffs. Austin, TX.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 4, 2017

This seed-stage fund is named 50/50 since Frank + Oak plans to grant 50 percent of the fund to female entrepreneurs and 50 percent of the fund to male entrepreneurs. A few weeks ago, we published our second eBook on social platforms which covers everything from messaging to networks, and communities to enterprise collaboration.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 7, 2017

dollar still retain vastly broader acceptance, modularity (physical cash & digital value), regulatory advantage, and transactional scale (hard to compare centralized versus decentralized networks, but Visa can theoretically process 800x more transactions/second than a Bitcoin block as currently configured).

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 22, 2014

Establish firm contact and communication system for managing and coordinating business development interactions. Active contributor to the Boston entrepreneurial community with extensive network across technology startups.

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adamac.blogspot.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Adam MacBeth Tuesday, April 07, 2009 10 Startup Red Flags Ive worked on a number of startups: from seed-stage through IPO, as a founder, employee, advisor, and consultant, as well as evaluating a bunch from the outside, so Ive seen my share of screw-ups. Adamac Attack! I think this applies up to about 50 people.

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www.informationarbitrage.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

BlogTalkRadio Buddy Media Clickable Cloverhill Enterprises Covestor Domdex Global Bay Mobile Tech Zoo Games Invite Media Kinetic Trading Strategies Mashery Mimeo oneforty OrcaOne OrganizedWisdom Recognia Selerity Business Insider Standout Jobs StockTwits TheLadders Ticketfly TLists TubeMogul TweetDeck Zoomino ? So my advice to CTO / Founders?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

China has essentially closed its internal search, media and social network software market to foreign companies who wouldn’t play with the government rules on the Great Firewall. The numbers of mobile subscribers are staggering – 1.18 Several VC’s mentioned that there’s a funding gap for seed stage investments.

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Agile VC

MAY 16, 2012

Opportunistic VC investors focus less on developing very specific theses and more on cultivating a deep, rich network around the entire firm. Also really great opportunistic VCs are highly intentional about how they build their sourcing network and brand. Two firms I respect in this regard are Greylock and Andreesen Horowitz.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 27, 2011

Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. The Most Obvious Mobile Ad Unit and What the New York Times Got Wrong. ▼ January. (1).

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Below is a short description of their philosophy: "The part of our philosophy that makes us most different from other startup investors is that we dont believe gut feel is a reliable indicator of potential at the seed stage. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? ► January. (1).

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

How They Do It : Operate a social network at Facebook.com, through Facebook’s mobile apps, and the Facebook Platform which lets other websites extend Facebook’s tools for authentication and social sharing. They don’t even run ads in the FB mobile apps. Founded : Spring 2004, incorporated July 2004.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

Yet amid this grim news, we also can’t underestimate the triumph of modern biology over a novel disease variant — enabling companies such as Moderna to develop a vaccine formulation in two days without physical access to live cultures, faster than even the virus itself traveled around the world. The same applies to cities.

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Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

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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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

At seed-stage startups, especially companies with well-networked founders and investors, finding applicants who can do a job on paper is not overly difficult. ” His ideal answer: Folks who reply with some form of “learning, growth, personal change, professional development” get aces. Built in Boston.).

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Agile VC

MARCH 18, 2012

While Twitter has acquired various client apps like TweetDeck, they let various 3rd party developers pursue the premium service revenue opportunity. Twitter isn’t really a social network. But Twitter isn’t really a social network. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

Dan: Our goal is really to get beyond search social and the inefficiencies that search social and mobile have introduced to us. I’m in development right now. So VCs invest in different stages. You have seed stage, A round, B round, C round, D round. What is it? We’re building a product.

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

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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Silicon Valley Carried Interest Cofounder Boston 240

View from Seed

AUGUST 2, 2017

Internet-connected computing is an innovation wave on par with a few historical developments of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Most innovation waves follow a pattern where infrastructure is initially developed, then enabling technologies are created, and finally applications are built on top of the first two.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

I was developing a mesh network that I envisioned being useful in the developing world and for the internet of things. Eat not too much of this and more of that, but the whole network and system of how your body uses it and interacts with its environment is just so incredibly complex.

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Technical Review Software Review Finance Technology 68

Professor VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

They have raised a fund to provide seed funding of $50-$250K to 100-200 start-ups. Rather than going through their networks or targeting specific sectors for deal flow, they are going to rely on an algorithm to select companies. Seed stage investing is all about the team, so there may be something to this idea.

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San Jose Silicon Valley Venture Capital Angel Investor 28

allthingsd.com

JULY 16, 2012

Trending – Baird: RIM Is Bleeding Developers. In the largest sector, Internet, median deal size increased at every stage of funding for the first time ever, CB Insights said. Venture capitalists were particularly aggressive on early-stage investments in the second quarter. ATDmobile (Mobile). Virtual Stock Exchange.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

At NextView, we’ve long had a set of ethos or guiding principles behind all we do, which includes internal work as a team, external work as investors, and the lens through which we view seed-stage startups and their founding teams. AI is a trending sector for startups and seed funds right now. tdevane | LinkedIn.

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Search B2B Artificial Inteligence Semantic 120

View from Seed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

At NextView, we’ve long had a set of ethos or guiding principles behind all we do, which includes internal work as a team, external work as investors, and the lens through which we view seed-stage startups and their founding teams. AI is a trending sector for startups and seed funds right now. tdevane | LinkedIn.

Search 120

Search B2B Artificial Inteligence Semantic 120

Agile VC

JUNE 25, 2012

Cloze is helping outbound professionals understand and utilize their professional network more comprehensively than ever before. We amass all of this information in our emails, social networks, smartphone address books, and other software tools (e.g. Is CardMuch integration available these days to third party developers?

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Cofounder Stealth Silicon Valley Mobile 140

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

For example, my company decided early on to hire a UI designer, which has helped tremendously with our product development. Then we allocated the saved money into hiring the highest quality developers available — especially those who have experience working with a distributed team. Have an account?

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Joshua Baer is the co-founder and CEO of Otherinbox , a prolific angel investor and the director of Capital Factory , Austin’s seed-stage incubator. Also, most leads will have their own network of co-investors with whom they can share the deal, but make sure to ask that they share on AngelList too. Today in Mobile.

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K9 Ventures

JULY 21, 2016

And 2 seed stage companies that haven’t launched yet. When working with hardware you develop a new appreciation for the Butterfly Effect. Coin — a programmable payment device in a credit card form factor. Yup, a $0.50 RJ-45 cable.

Software Review 48

Software Review Forecast Portfolio Distribution 48

Scott Edward Walker

JUNE 26, 2012

16) GEORGE ZACHARY, Partner at Charles River Ventures “I look for founders at the seed stage and Series A stage who basically can quickly explain to me what it is that they are doing, why it is so important, and in a way that the passion comes from them authentically, not like somebody taught them how to make a presentation.” - George Zachary (p.27)

Term Sheet 72

Term Sheet Technical Review Due Diligence Cofounder 72

Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

I describe this in part as the “Social Network” effect… not just the movie itself but the example of Mark Zuckerberg and many other high profile young founders as role models ( who can forget this image? ) I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Read More ».

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Silicon Valley San Francisco San Jose Startup 185

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

For the first-time entrepreneur or founder looking for seed stage funding, this circle can be especially difficult to penetrate. Mashable Mashable reached out to angels, seed stage investors and VC firm partners and asked them to share their wisdom with the rest of us. and Path Intelligence.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Let’s face it, the rules for getting a startup funded at the seed stage aren’t very clear. Note: When I say “seed stage startup,” I’m specifically referring to software/app startups that are eitherpre-product or early product. TVR: The traditional way of raising seed funding. The New Way , called Traction.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Along with company presentations and ample networking opportunities, Dan Caruso, CEO of Zayo Group, will give this winter’s keynote address. Pure Energy Solutions is the developer of superior wire-free charging technology and rechargeable battery solutions for consumer electronic devices. TopSchool, Inc.

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