Agile VC

JANUARY 22, 2014

It’s easy for a startup to pitch itself as “mobile first” just as entrepreneurs pitched “cloud” a few years ago and “web” more than a decade ago.

Term Sheet 173

Term Sheet Cofounder Mobile Cloud 173

Agile VC

JUNE 25, 2012

And Cloze’s product is designed from the get go around mobile usage in addition to the desktop web (>20% of LinkedIn traffic today is smartphones & tablets). In addition to being a repeat entrepreneur, I was immediately impressed by his ability to build product. Overall, great find! link] leehower. Read More ».

Cofounder 140

Cofounder Stealth Silicon Valley Mobile 140

Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

I played around on BBS’s when I was growing up in the late ’80s and of course the foundations of the web were laid even before that by the military and academic institutions.

Internet 100

Internet Stealth Cofounder Seed Stage 100

Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

I played around on BBS’s when I was growing up in the late ’80s and of course the foundations of the web were laid even before that by the military and academic institutions.

Internet 100

Internet Stealth Cofounder Seed Stage 100

Agile VC

MAY 16, 2012

Rather these firms know that there are countless bright, hard-working entrepreneurs out there thinking 24/7 about the next big thing and so they remain open to these innovative ideas even if the firm hasn’t previously formed a specific investment thesis about that space. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC.

Seed Stage 124

Seed Stage Silicon Valley B2B Syndicate 124

Agile VC

MARCH 18, 2012

Dick Costolo rightly boasts that Twitter is one of the largest referrers of traffic on the web. In the private markets Twitter commands a higher revenue multiple all the other high profile Web 2.0 Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Even a filter for content can be a media company. Read More ».

Media 113

Media Advertising Silicon Valley Revenue 113

Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Hollywood writers and producers were jumping ship to create their own indie web series. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. A lot of people talked about the rise of UGC and how it might displace a large amount of professionally produced video content (TV shows and movies). Content was no longer king.

Silicon Valley 100

Silicon Valley Seed Stage Syndicate Syndication 100

Agile VC

JANUARY 27, 2012

As a result of a convergence of many factors (lean startup methodology, broadband & smartphone penetration, social web, cloud computing, etc), breakout startups are clearly getting scale faster than they used to. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Read More ».

Hockey Stick 113

Hockey Stick Seed Stage Silicon Valley Syndicate 113

Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

That sounds like a lot of responsibility for someone fresh out of undergrad as I was then, but in reality both of these were peripheral elements of PayPal’s core web-based payment product which was still heavily concentrated on eBay auctions at the time. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Read More ».

Mobile 250

Mobile Disintermediation SMS Government 250

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

I’ll focus for now on the business itself, there’s plenty of other info on the web if you care to understand the equity ownership or financing history of Facebook and frankly this has been fairly well known for awhile. ==. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Facebook, Inc. Read More ».

IPO 100

IPO South Korea Venezuela Revenue 100