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JULY 13, 2022

Rachel Hodes (RH): What problem exists in the market that your business is trying to solve? We were working on CNB’s new mobile banking app. There’s a new set of real-time payments protocols which Waiver is making more broadly available to bring fast, secure, and cost-effective payments to a range of applications.”

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JANUARY 23, 2020

Ive, Steve Jobs, and Apple didn’t invent the mobile phone, but the iPhone (and smartphones generally) have revolutionized our world, and will undoubtedly go down as one of the more consequential innovations of the 21st century. Unless you are a student of design or an aficionado of cars, you may not know the name Harley Earl.

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JANUARY 11, 2016

Despite heroic efforts that pay off in one city, a location-based startup practically hits the reset button when they enter new markets.

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JANUARY 24, 2018

The concept our Guilds is simple: We want to bring together small groups of Product and Go-to-Market experts to lend their time to support our portfolio company founders and key operators. Pierre Valade, Co-Founder of Sunrise & Mobile Designer at Microsoft. Go-to-Market Guild. Jessica Meher, VP, Marketing at Notarize.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2017

With a new market emerging around advances in neural network recognition of vocal inputs, efficiency may well be the core advantage that drives user adoption and so overall maturation of the voice sector.

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DECEMBER 7, 2017

The scope of digital tech for work and money, in terms of addressable markets, is almost mind-boggling. and life insurance segments, you see a $2T (yes, trillion) annual market where nearly all transactions occur offline. Though even there, you’ve seen startups like Clover Health , Oscar , Devoted Health , and others grow rapidly.)

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Or will you be fine with a head of marketing or a controller or a sales lead? And while the best management teams have considered current market forces, potential headwinds and tailwinds in the industry, and competitive advantages, the fact remains that you just don’t know what you don’t know. But do you really need a COO?

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APRIL 7, 2015

This can even be true when the web or mobile experience itself isn’t even core to a company’s early challenges or milestones. So, by company-building standards, these companies appear to be early — but they aren’t actually that unproven, given their product-market fit or their initial growth engine.

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AUGUST 30, 2016

Let me start with a few addresses: 1355 Market Street. Incepted in 2012, Alignable’s platform hit the market in 2014, and since then, we’ve seen hundreds of thousands of business owners in North America join. This can include location, industry, customer target market, and business goals. 2029 Stierlin Court. 1 Hacker Way.

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MARCH 22, 2016

You don’t have the traction, the big-dollar investments, or the marketing staff to attract media attention. No, but a publication that gets into the nitty gritty of mobile development will want those details and then some. The irony hurts. Every publication is different, so there’s no single blueprint.

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AUGUST 26, 2015

Maybe you’ll do better as an angel since you are investing smaller dollars which is easier to deploy in this segment of the market, but maybe not. So, if you’ve been a successful internet founder or have launched great web/mobile products, most founders would love to have you in a round even if your check size is small. Don’t be cheap.

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AUGUST 26, 2015

Maybe you’ll do better as an angel since you are investing smaller dollars which is easier to deploy in this segment of the market, but maybe not. So, if you’ve been a successful internet founder or have launched great web/mobile products, most founders would love to have you in a round even if your check size is small. Don’t be cheap.

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AUGUST 2, 2017

For example, in computing platforms, the mainframe was superseded by the minicomputer, which was eclipsed by the PC, which was subsumed by client-server platforms, which in many ways has been replaced by cloud and mobile computing. after WWII, were all a direct result of the mass market adoption of the automobile many decades earlier.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Five years ago, TapCommerce CEO & Co-Founder Brian Long had a vision of helping brands deliver customers, revenue, and ROI across mobile devices. A lot has changed since then, but one industry megatrend has remained constant: consumers’ radical adoption of mobile commerce and retailers’ desire to reach them on these devices.

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OCTOBER 7, 2015

You might be able to build a reasonably successful business by spotting a hole in some market somewhere, but it’s much more likely that outlandish success will be won by founders (and, really, people ) who are authentically interested in solving a problem. Sector #2: Mobile Video Consumption. Where will people watch?

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OCTOBER 7, 2015

You might be able to build a reasonably successful business by spotting a hole in some market somewhere, but it’s much more likely that outlandish success will be won by founders (and, really, people ) who are authentically interested in solving a problem. Sector #2: Mobile Video Consumption. Where will people watch?

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MAY 29, 2019

Today, we are seeing less syndication of seed rounds and sharper elbows among many of the funds in the market. This segment of the market is basically mirroring other segments of the venture ecosystem which has operated this way for some time. Similarly, the seed market is beginning to look like this too.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2016

There’s a whole bunch of things that it means for the automotive and mobility industry. Is it a huge market in shipping relative to passenger? This is just about one of the biggest markets in the spheres of commercial activity. But the transportation market is just absurdly big.It’s over half-a- trillion dollars.

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JULY 14, 2022

Increasingly, people want the option to personalize their investment decisions, expressing their views on specific market opportunities or broader societal factors. Pebble makes it easy to create a truly personalized ETF, all within their user-friendly mobile app.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Similarly, as the consumption of news has become a mobile-first experience, we recently invested in The Outline , which bills itself as “is a new kind of publication for a new kind of human,” creating both content and advertising pieces that are unabashedly mobile-centric.

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