Agile VC

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The Consumerization of Business Software. One of the themes that we’ve been most interested in at NextView over the last 12+ months has been the impact of consumer web trends on business software. People have been selling software over the web for awhile and indirect selling via screensharing and webinar, etc isn’t new.

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Software B2B Silicon Valley Acquisition 100

Agile VC

JANUARY 3, 2013

The first chapter began more than 40 years ago with IBM being forced to unbundle software and hardware on mainframe platforms. They further had to open up IE to allow consumer choice of embedded services like search and media players. Smartphone and tablet platforms are likely to be no different in the coming years.

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Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

In the software an internet space a number of companies obviously had strong public offerings (LinkedIn, Yandex, Pandora, RenRen, et al). And even other strong, but perhaps not standout, companies like Active Network and Demand Media completed their own offerings.

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IPO Marketing Silicon Valley Technical Review 100

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

This is especially true for those with a media / ad based business model (e.g. Business facing companies typically provide software or an online service for which their customers pay a fee. We invest in internet enabled companies at NextView and our portfolio is roughly equally split between consumer and B2B businesses.

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Revenue Product B2B Marketing 234

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Again there’s three fundamental ways to make money in consumer-facing internet businesses: you can sell people stuff in a physical realm (e-commerce), you can indirectly monetize consumer attention (media or ad-based), or you can provide online software & services that consumers pay for (premium services).

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IPO Aggregator B2B Internet 194

Agile VC

MAY 21, 2012

were fairly active a few years ago though neither is as active today and big media conglomerates like Disney are fairly sporadic as they embrace web-based media. Oracle and IBM have made some acquisitions of SaaS businesses though many of their deals are more old school enterprise software businesses that have matured.

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Acquisition Silicon Valley B2B Seed Stage 162

Agile VC

JUNE 24, 2013

Internet & software giants like Google (Google Maps now powers Audi nav systems) and Microsoft (Sync infotainment created in conjunction with Ford) have been hard at work to remain at the leading edge of innovation here. Internet connectivity is turning them into a more individualized and more comprehensive kind of media platform.

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Internet Caching Aggregator Audio 153