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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. Ecommerce has transcended merely shipping a box to your home — it’s about leveraging mobile plus the internet to create an elegant purchasing experience previously unavailable.

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

ReadWriteStart

But today, the equilibrium is shifting for many founders. But the most significant changes from 2004 to today include the rise of fast mobile networks and broadband, breakthroughs in communications technology, and a shift towards decentralizing educational opportunities. Today, even developing countries have fast wired internet.

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

crowdSPRING Blog

Important insight – Harsh Realities From 500 Startups Founders – [link]. The great RockMelt social disintermediation – [link]. 40 People Who Changed The Internet – [link]. Mike Samson, Co-Founder of @crowdSPRING on Community Building & NO!SPEC SPEC Campaign [link].

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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. The panelists are: Mr. Rafe Furst , Co-Founder Crowdfunder. What does financial disintermediation really mean?

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Better, Cheaper, More Convenient

Rob Go

The ride experience is better in an UberX than a taxi, uberX is cheaper than a taxi, and on demand mobile booking, payments, etc make it way more convenient. The challenge is that a lot of founders think that they are doing a judo move and offering a product or service that is disruptively better, but they don’t quite hit the mark.