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Seed Stage Firms are Dead, Long Live Micro VCs

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The firm is solely focused on capital efficient business sectors, most frequently but certainly not always internet-enabled companies. In the sector of internet-enabled services where a majority of the Micro VC investment has transpired, startups can fundamentally do more with less. Structural. That’s no secret.

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Our Investment in One Jackson: Fresh, Yet Familiar

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CEO Anne Raimondi and my partner Rob were colleagues together at eBay in the early 2000’s before she went on the lead product and/or marketing at many household internet names like Zazzle, InsiderPages, and SurveyMonkey.

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Are We Entering 2013 in Crunch-Mode?

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According to all of the blogosphere chatter over the past month, seed-funded internet startups are entering this year gearing up for the now-near-infamous Series A Crunch. Happy New Year and welcome to 2013.

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Why AOL's "About.com 2.0" strategy will work. for a while

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As the internet becomes more fragmented, when– if you can produce great content in niche areas and then really leverage the distribution on the internet, you’re looking at a very high scale, high ROI, return-on-capital business.” We wanna have a lot of properties with a lotta users on them.

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Why AOL's "About.com 2.0" strategy will work. for a while

Genuine VC

As the internet becomes more fragmented, when– if you can produce great content in niche areas and then really leverage the distribution on the internet, you’re looking at a very high scale, high ROI, return-on-capital business.” We wanna have a lot of properties with a lotta users on them.

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Has the tide turned for YouTube/Google? (ComScore says so but doesn’t scream it) The next phase of online video

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It seemed as though this juggernaut was defying a strong current internet trend – the deportalization of content. Especially when I hear that the dirty little secret from many independent video producers which maintain their own destination sites is that an overwhelming number of their views come via YouTube and not on their own distribution.

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Has the tide turned for YouTube/Google? (ComScore says so but doesn’t scream it) The next phase of online video

Genuine VC

It seemed as though this juggernaut was defying a strong current internet trend – the deportalization of content. Especially when I hear that the dirty little secret from many independent video producers which maintain their own destination sites is that an overwhelming number of their views come via YouTube and not on their own distribution.

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