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The Great Retail Reinvention: How the Internet Is Reshaping the Way We Buy Clothing

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We are currently seeing the most rapid collapse of retail since the Great Recession, due to the internet changing consumer demand and purchasing patterns. Most apparel purchases are now in some way influenced by the internet. Apparel is currently one of the most fascinating categories within the Everyday Economy.

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

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Physical-World Ecommerce. At NextView, we believe that one of the next steps in ecommerce is facilitating goods and services transactions that involve a “real-world” component to the experience. The internet continues the disintermediation of content creation. The “Internet of Things”. Empowering Content Creators.

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Introducing NextView III and Our Focus on the Everyday Economy

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Internet-connected computing is an innovation wave on par with a few historical developments of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Conventional wisdom has it that the internet is towards the end of this cycle — and many VCs are on the hunt for the next platform, whether it be blockchain, or AI, or synthetic biology, or what have you.

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Home Is Where the Innovation Is

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While internet disruption has transformed most facets of everyday living, one of the last to really be redesigned has been the home. It’s interesting to note that Home Depot is a $180B retailer that has not seen significant threat from internet disruption. But it’s coming. Source: Google Finance).

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Why We’re Market-First, Not Technology-First, Investors

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NextView is not an AR/VR, blockchain, AI — or even ecommerce — fund. For example, NextView-backed managed marketplaces like CarDash and Renoviso provide compelling internet-enabled services to connected customers driven by market opportunity. “Where can the blockchain enable new financial structures and contracts?”