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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. The “Internet of Things”.

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Fintech Companies Redesigning The Financial World

YoungUpstarts

Despite this position, the number of companies is four times less than the USA; there are 30 startups, with greater concentration in the cities of Beijing and Shanghai; European Market: the UK has 24 out of 250 startups highlighted, especially in London.

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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! Is your market actually big? Or is it a fake market? Another industry being disintermediated by technology: Gaming Faces Its Archenemy: Financial Reality – [link].

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

ReadWriteStart

Also you get to better insulate yourself from the competition and ups and downs of a particular local job market, and you’ll automatically get better coverage of multiple time zones and languages when your team is more distributed.” Last year, Amazon signed a major lease at 525 Market Street.

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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! The great RockMelt social disintermediation – [link]. Lessons Learned From Helping Over 150 Startups With Marketing Part 1 – [link]. Who’s on first?

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

Agile VC

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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Artificial Intelligence: Implications On Marketing, Analytics, And You

Occam's Razor

It’s implications are far and wide, even in the narrow scope that I live in (marketing, analytics, influence). Machine Learning | Marketing. Machine Learning | Marketing. You are seeing many applications of Machine Learning being applied to Marketing. Consider the implications of ML on your email marketing program.