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

View from Seed

We average eight to 10 total new investments per year as a firm, so this frequency is a typical investment pace for us. 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.

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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. Access to the corporate investor’s ecosystem can open up great opportunities from technology validation to customer and partner development. New York Times’ timeSpace is a good example. Mari Holds a B.A.

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Fintech Companies Redesigning The Financial World

YoungUpstarts

San Francisco and other cities close by (79 in California) represent the highest concentration of fintechs, however, New York also has a significant number (33 in total). Analyzing in a general way, what appears with much emphasis is a disintermediation movement, in particular the banks.

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

ReadWriteStart

Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures says: “I feel that the ability to spin up and then successfully operate remote engineering locations is a skill that technology companies need to develop earlier in their development than used to be the case.”. In many places, mobile data and hardwired internet were still billed based upon usage.