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MAY 19, 2010

Greycroft is an early-stage VC. Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. In the show we talked about why this is important to mobile application developers. When the show has been processed it will be available here (estimated 8pm PDT). OTHER DEALS: 1.

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OCTOBER 11, 2016

The explosion of mobile phones has led to a boom in inbound click-to-call traffic that has proven to convert at a higher close rate and increase average-order-value over web-only sales & marketing. It’s the executives who trust you to join the early-stage startups you’ve funded. It’s the people who want to work with you.

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

So I believe that now is the perfect time to build a company and the perfect time for early-stage investors to bet on innovation. Please do not read that I think an early-stage company with limited product and only beta customers should go straight for a $5 million fund raising. It is also a result of pent-up demand.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2011

The tech market is filled with many stories of early-stage funding. Our investments focus heavily on the financial services industry, digital media, mobile applications & infrastructure, SaaS / Cloud and retail innovation. It’s even more exciting when you can report an exit of a company that is a major win.

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JUNE 22, 2015

msuster looking for an inspired post on when an exclusivity deal (w/ major industry player) works (cons as well) for an early stage tech co. — If a company wanted to distribute software on a mobile device it need to sell via a “portal” (US term) or a “deck” (UK term) of a mobile carrier.

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APRIL 28, 2010

Zong – mobile payments has been a very hot area over the past couple of years with the success and growth of both Boku and Zong. Boku and Zong focus mostly on mobile payments for virtual goods. It has proven a very successful strategy to get consumers to activate the payment on their mobile phone bill. VC Financings: 1.

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MAY 19, 2013

” Somebody who had lived with the marketing consequences of trying to track online conversion from websites, google, mobile and social. I have previously written why I don’t believe in the COO role at early-stage startups. We set out to find Jonathan’s “co-founder.”

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JUNE 29, 2014

The opportunity set is much bigger than ever (50x more users, 10x time online, mobile, social, credit-card enabled, global) … when things work they work faster and at an unprecedented scale. to raise “opportunity funds” to fund the prorata participation of their best early-stage investments.

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MAY 13, 2013

For the past 5 years or so Google, Facebook and a handful of tech industry giants have been quietly buying scores of early-stage startups for their talent. Many buying companies price these deals on the basis of $1 million per engineer on the team for an early-stage deal. has now employed the same strategy.

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

There’s no doubt (at least anecdotally) that the pace of VC investments in early-stage technology companies has picked up in the past few months. I hear from several sources that Sequoia is very active in the market aggressively chasing several deals and even driving up prices on some early-stage deals.

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MARCH 12, 2013

Greg was the first person to share with me the insights of mobile conversion and why with a simpler product selection and conversion funnel they would get higher conversion on mobile than on the web. On each subsequent meeting I’d learn a little bit more. And largely synergistic with what we do – which is awesome.

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JUNE 11, 2015

In this capacity I can tell any entrepreneurs raising early-stage capital that I would have Matt on my short list if I were raising. It’s hard to capture a monthly active user base in mobile that spans into several millions and manage that through a transition. I’m personally very bullish on the future of NextPlus.

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JULY 5, 2011

In the past 15 years our partners have backed nearly one company every year that was early stage and eventually exited for North of a billion dollars. Yet we wanted to be clear that we invest heavily in digital media, mobile & software companies. We also invest in the UK as you’ll soon find out.

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JUNE 28, 2010

Since then Mike his built his career by investing in early-stage companies (seed or series A), which is remarkable given that Polaris Ventures is a $1 billion fund. Developer and publisher of social mobile games. SGN games downloaded +17mm times on mobile devices. Read more: TechCrunch. Total raised: $17.0mm.

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JANUARY 13, 2011

First, if it’s an early stage company, I don’t need to see a powerpoint deck. I would argue that this mostly consists of consumer Internet companies (although not exclusively) and it is predominantly early-stage people who are product gurus and have a mildly technical bend to them. Mobile app? Bijan is right.

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MAY 23, 2012

hours per day on average, and that’s excluding the other 13 hours a day where we have our mobile devices, our connected TVs, our iPads and Kindles and soon our cars connected to the web. Mobility really changes everything. According to Google data 30% of all restaurant searches now come via mobile devices. And the future?

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MAY 12, 2010

If he’s reading this I’m sure he’s laughing but it’s not uncommon for him to ring my mobile phone at 9pm for something “urgent.&# (everything’s urgent with Sean but he’s so infectious you gotta love it ) Or he will ask whether he can swing by early for coffee.

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MARCH 17, 2010

It’s not uncommon for incredibly smart and talented Phd’s or CS majors from Stanford to raise $10 million on an early-stage “platform&# that if it succeeds it will be huge. LA generally doesn’t have an appetite for this kind of investment at early stages. LA investors are more pragmatic.

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JUNE 18, 2010

We spent the first 45 minutes or so talking about industry trends (in this order): The history and background of True Ventures, one of my favorite early-stage VC’s (and the one with whom Om is a venture partner). The strategy of GigaOm and where they differentiate in the market. DST invested $180mm last fall.

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JULY 10, 2010

The importance of the conference is that it assembles most of the top privately held early-to-mid-stage technology companies in the country (and some globally) as well as most VC’s, growth equity funds and corporate development departments from large industry players looking at technology acquisitions. ITA Software.

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MAY 1, 2010

Most early stage startups having monthly board meetings. Quarterly is too few for an early stage business. Or if you’re a mobile ad network and they announce iAd – same thing. Running the “Agile&# Board. I normally recommend 8 meetings per year. You can do calls if need be.

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MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. CEO/President is Karl Siebrecht (ex-Pres of Atlas at AQuantive and ex-GM of ad platform product management, search and display marketing, and mobile and gaming advertising for Microsoft). Primarily targets SMBs.

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OCTOBER 15, 2009

When you’re an early-stage startup that hasn’t raised any institutional money you end up doing almost every job function of the company yourself. This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice. This is a story of one of the risks of venture capital.

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JULY 13, 2013

And we had these vans and mobile kegs in the back, and we would go to golf courses. You’ve got entrepreneurs and founders who are really – a lot of them are in the very early stage of their startup. The big decision for us was, do you have three or four kegs, and do you charge two or three dollars a head?

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JANUARY 16, 2012

For example, if you’re looking to approach Kleiner Perkins it’s worth knowing that my friend Matt Murphy runs their iFund and therefore is the in-house expert on all things mobile. He knows the history of all of the payment gateways, mobile payment platforms, credit offerings, remittance companies, etc. Meet early.

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OCTOBER 17, 2009

Many VCs who do lots of seed stage deals are very supportive and active. They do many early-stage deals. One of the hotter companies lately in the mobile social networking is FourSquare, which raised $1.35 Look at Josh Kopelman over at First Round Capital. I think they definitely qualify as a VC and not a seed fund.

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MAY 5, 2011

Chris Devore & Andy Sack have created Founder’s Coop with the goal of funding, incubating & launching more early-stage ventures in Seattle. It’s no big surprise that I spend a larger portion of my time in LA working on: disruption of television, performance-based marketing, games & mobile.

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JANUARY 18, 2011

Our firm invested at a very early stage in retail brands including CostCo, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Ulta, Starbucks and many more. I wanted a smart NorCal investor who had done more mobile investments than I had and Jon Callaghan had very relevant relationships & experience. I will describe this in a moment.

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OCTOBER 28, 2011

I’ve thought a lot about team construction of early stage companies. I was once asked on Quora what my idea startup team would be. I wrote the following : “I like to invest at the seed or A round. My ideal team is simple: Assuming 6 people. 5 engineers. 1 CEO who doubles as head of product management. Nothing else.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds who have a history of giving $20 million to early-stage technology companies hoping to swing for the fences and become the next Google, Facebook or Twitter. We tend to do more $2-3 million “A&# rounds and we look for companies that have an early monetization strategy.

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JULY 27, 2016

A mobile marketing company could track campaigns and then measure increases in retail traffic driven into local stores. I was talking to my friend Jonathan Triest at Ludlow and told him I had freed up a bit of time and was looking for an early-stage company, technically-minded company to back.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

For funding, you’ll see a loose affiliation of early stage investors, something will start slow, and then gain momentum to eventually close the deal. We discuss Googles plan to pay more to Verizon in order to be on a higher speed connection and get its mobile content to users faster. Net neutrality (1:09:00).

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JULY 10, 2011

We’re co-leading the $6 million investment with Roger Ehrenberg at IA Ventures in NY and one of the most respected early-stage investors in the country in “big data&# companies. In the mobile space you had leaders for every platform: iPhone, Blackberry & Android: None of these was originally built by Twitter.

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