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Angels Rush in Where VC Fear to Tread

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VCs needed to invest hundreds of millions of dollars every couple of years, and liked to go into groups and syndications, which meant they wanted deals for a few millions dollars. He says, summarizing the Giga Om post: Unlike traditional VCs, super angels actively invest in seed stage companies.

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

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If massively succesful, Isis might disintermediate the companies that manufacturer plastic payment cards and perhaps the companies that make mag stripe hardware (e.g. Also some of the mobile banking players are considering to build a parallel network that would disintermediate the card associations. Read More ยป.

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