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

View from Seed

As my partner Rob Go has written , our goal is to invest half in consumer web and mobile and half in business-focused ventures. The internet continues the disintermediation of content creation. We average eight to 10 total new investments per year as a firm, so this frequency is a typical investment pace for us.

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Twitter Link Roundup #149 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The image above is one of 30 stylish and funky shoe designs we found on the web last week. 5 Things Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Art Students – [link].

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Angels Rush in Where VC Fear to Tread

Up and Running

About three years ago I attended a Web 2.0 This was before the great recession, but in the middle of the explosion of web apps and social media. One thing that came up repeatedly, then, was the impact of steeply declining web development costs on professional investment. But entrepreneurs, meanwhile, were looking for a lot less.

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Twitter Link Roundup #60 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Business plans for entrepreneurs: the three ‘Rs’ – Part I – [link]. Business plans for entrepreneurs: the three ‘Rs’ – Part I – [link].

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A Critical, but Ignored Metric for Marketplaces

A Crowded Space

In the press and on home pages across the web you see metrics like 100,000 expert freelancers or over a million sellers or “adding 3,000 new users per day.” They will not care much about their online reputation, they will not drive turnaround times lower, and they will be disintermediation risks.

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Terence Kawaja Presents “Clash of the Titans” in Social Media

VC Cafe

But as of late, web 2.0 Extremely rapidly, companies that you’ve heard of earlier are being formed into 10-20-50 billion dollar companies, so rapidly and cheaply that its a bonanza for entrepreneurs that have great ideas. There is disintermediation going on. I call it ‘science-fied.’

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The Great Fragmentation

aweissman.com

A few weeks ago my partner Albert Wenger wrote about Facebook being unbundled: "Facebook's Real Mobile Problem: Unbundling" where he opined that "mobile devices are doing to web services what web services did to print media: they unbundle." In other words, publishers and bookstores will be unbundled. That vision turned out to be wrong.