David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Her work included heading Nokia’s location-based services business and app portfolio for emerging markets, which she built from a back-of-a-napkin idea to a 100-person organization with over 10 million users. At Virgin Mobile USA, Mari led early initiatives in mobile commerce, social networking and advertising.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

think about the entrepreneurs that started in the early days of the Internet, mobile, crypto, VR and yes… now Metaverse. monthly active end-users who are engaging with content created or operated by Unity solutions in 2020. Is there an early mover advantage for being early on a technology trend? Unity’s recent $4.4

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

When I do a quick mental query of headcount across our entire portfolio of ~30 companies, I think at least 50% and maybe as much as 60% of the entire headcount of our portfolio is in either product or engineering. We'll be your hosts for a three-part series about the use of MongoDB here at Etsy. The Curation Team. Well, half of it.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

When we create new platform initiatives, our team tries to think about how we can be the most impactful with our portfolio companies. Today, we’re thrilled to announce a new program that we hope will help our portfolio companies with two of these bullets. We’re calling them NextView Operator Guilds. . Back to Top).

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Mattermark (a portfolio company) looked at the matriculation rates for a class of startups. Likewise, early-stage investors may not appreciate just how much follow-on support their portfolio companies will need. So, how have Version One portfolio companies done in this environment? 2016 for Version One companies.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Mobile Mondays : Boston chapter of the world’s largest Mobile professional community. Online Resources and Newsletters: Bostinno : Great coverage of local startup happenings with a growing network of local writers. Topics have included “Leveraging Pinterest”, “Mobile Commerce”, and “Facebook Advertising”. Places to Hang.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 21, 2012

Over the last 12 months, there have been a handful of acquisitions of mobile start-ups like RapSphere * (by Appsense), Nukona (by Symantec) and most recently Zenprise (by Citirix) that help enterprises better manage mobile devices. A Lightspeed portfolio company. Follow us on Twitter @lightspeedvp. *A

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 5, 2011

First up, Satya Choppadhandi from Bangalore, India, presented Evolutech Networks, a company that manufactures wireless energy monitoring devices for the smart home. Next, Douglas Villalobos from Costa Rica pitched GeoInvenio, a mobile application development platform. GeoInvenio.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

The people of IT—CIOs, network engineers, system administrators, IT developers and their brethren—get captured and held hostage by the technological dictators. Keep hand-rolled, brittle server, storage and network infrastructures working reliably. Three revolutionaries will replace the current IT dictators: Cloud , Mobile and Social.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

I must admit I discuss this very frequently with portfolio companies but hadn’t thought to write about it. 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. PR Malloy (@diddly_do_indy) June 13, 2015.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 26, 2021

At first glance, Preemadonna with its consumer hardware and beauty products, doesn’t seem like the typical startup in the Version One portfolio. And perhaps more importantly, CEO and founder Pree Walia is one of the most compelling and mission-driven founders we have ever met.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2010

What is the future of social media, digital television or mobile computing. Background: GRP Partners is a Los Angeles based Venture Capital firm with additional operations in London and Paris. Responding to portfolio company requests. Natural networker with a proven track-record of establishing broad relationships.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 25, 2015

Every aspect of our lives are being disrupted with technology (specifically the mobile phone) and not one category will go untouched. HW: Both you and Kirsten have deep strategy/investment experience but less operational experience, at a time when some might claim early stage VC is tilting towards the hands-on model.

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The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Taken together they tell us clearly that mobile and social are still growing very fast. As you can see from the charts below the mobile share of internet traffic share is up over 3x in under a year and time spent on social media is up 37% year on year to 121.1bn minutes in the month of July – I think that is a US figure.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

My goal in the interview overall was to capture more of the personal side of Fred since so much of his investment thesis and portfolio work already comes out in his blog. Fred has of course been a public mentor to us all with his market-defining terminology that he popularized including “freemium” and “mobile first.”

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View from Seed

APRIL 24, 2019

Couple that noise with the flurry of AI/messaging startups from a few years back (set off by Facebook’s WhatsApp acquisition), in conjunction with app developers’ notification euphoria… all of which have resulted in a state on our mobile phones where “ our brains being overloaded with push notifications about nothing.”. They don’t.

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Genuine VC

JULY 19, 2010

Portfolio construction favors early-round capital allocation vs. company life-cycle allocation. These results are based on actual usage of product by early users, with resulting operating metrics which more than just validate a hypothesis. Initial investment in a company is among the first non-founder capital raised.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 26, 2022

Since Bitcoin is decentralized, payments also can’t be traced back to their identity, bank account, or personal computer network (for online payments). This simple process means that they can make transactions while keeping all of their personal information off of the network. Easy to use for anyone with a mobile phone.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Some of our particular themes and areas of interest include (* indicates a Version One portfolio company): . Zero-Emission Mobility / EV / Logistics & Transportation. It only lists software companies in the climate and energy space that have come across Version One’s radar recently. New Electricity Providers. Bitcoin Mining.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 17, 2017

Thrillbox Thrillbox is an immersive media analytics platform that provides distribution tools for content generators, advertising agencies, vendors, and networks. Cingo | Customer Service for the Mobile Generation appVuze appVuze is the Customer Support Tool for Mobile Enterprise Apps. To Apply: Please email kobus@cingo.me

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 4, 2017

While we’re ready to look ahead and embrace 2017, here’s a quick recap of the major activity across our portfolio last quarter. Portfolio companies in the news. A few weeks ago, we published our second eBook on social platforms which covers everything from messaging to networks, and communities to enterprise collaboration.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

The people of IT—CIOs, network engineers, system administrators, IT developers and their brethren—get captured and held hostage by the technological dictators. Keep hand-rolled, brittle server, storage and network infrastructures working reliably. Three revolutionaries will replace the current IT dictators: Cloud , Mobile and Social.

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Romania Software Review Cloud Mobile 44

Haystack

AUGUST 18, 2019

They’ve all accepted that this is a new world of capital abundance and that the pistons driving the global economy are technology and network effects. And if you don’t hit one or two right, you end up with a mediocre portfolio. On this dimension, most seed funds can’t even compete on network, brand, or the cost of capital.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

Meanwhile, Micro VC has focused on sweeping changes in technology and consumer internet adoption that have enabled dramatically reduced capital requirements for building new software companies, as well as accelerated access to customers via search, social, and mobile platforms. They are operators, through and through.

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Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

All the data actually suggests with the growth of mobile, inbound sales calls will double from 30 billion to 60 billion in 3 years (source: Kelsey). In fact 61% of all mobile searches where a customer contacts a business it is via a phone call (source: Google). Calls are changing but not dying. Much more data in the full post.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

But there are many zombie VC’s with no more investments left in their portfolios so it’s hard to know which trend has more impact. Sentiment is strong in personal portfolios and up commensurately with VC’s expectations that their last fund will now be worth something (and along with that increase the partners’ personal wealth).

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

When I was working on the Google Maps team, I got to know how powerful mobile mapping was, and what mobile was capable of doing. Because of this background, I was well positioned to launch a company to solve the problems of field sales based on a mobile mapping platform. Thanks to Jason Bond, Jason Bond Picks ! #6

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 22, 2014

We are looking for a passionate, outgoing, and talented individual embedded within the local Boston entrepreneurial community to facilitate information sharing between NextView portfolio companies, spearhead community-building & outreach efforts, and help promote our firm. Exceptionally high attention to detail.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

To date our messaging has been clear, but we also could not ignore the fact that companies like Plain Vanilla Games took off quickly and became known as the fastest growing mobile game in history. While this sounds simple, there is a ton of work that goes into helping our portfolio companies get to a successful Series A.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But, most of use raise capital and source deals the same way people looked for dates 20 years ago: by networking at conferences (or bars). . I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. Point Nine Capital uses Qwilr to create modern, mobile-native collateral.

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The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Firstly and most obviously the market for mobile services is huge and growing at an accelerating rate, putting a strong tailwind behind businesses in this sector. A doubling of smartphones in the next three years suggests that will move to 20%, and that is without taking into account the effect of improving networks and devices.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Before AngelList, investment dealflow was private and networks revolved around a few connected angels and VC?s. Since the angel network was created, transparent angel investing has exploded and entrepreneurs from any background can get funded. Most indices are cap-weighted - more in line with a concentrated portfolio (i.e.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2014

But, in today’s global market, the booming economy, massive population, mobile adoption and growing middle make Asia an attractive—and fully attainable—prospect for virtually any young upstart. However, the bigger surprise may be the way in which Asian companies prefer to operate compared to those in the U.S. 4: Reputation matters.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 1, 2015

The Internet of Things offers device vendors like Lenovo the opportunity to diversify their consumer portfolios, increase revenue and profits, and establish deeper relationships with customers. Chen also announced that ShenQi smartphones will be independent of Lenovo’s operations in that segment.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

When he entered the industry he caught the tail end of the dot com bubble and then was immediately thrust into a 3-year period of “triage&# where VC’s had to deal with problems in portfolio companies. Developer and publisher of social mobile games. SGN games downloaded +17mm times on mobile devices.

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Agile VC

APRIL 27, 2012

As many of you may know, we have a section on the NextView website called “Ethos” where we describe five key principles to how we operate. Ethos: What ‘Blank Canvas’ Means to NextView. April 27, 2012. My partners and I have blogged about some of these including Invited Guest , Golazo , Authentic , and Tribe.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

I made the point (not widely publicized) that OS4 is currently “breaking&# many applications that use ad networks that are not Apples (most notably AdMob, owned by Google). Online social game network; make their own games (FarmVille, Mafia Wars, FrontierVille) in addition to allowing third-party developers to access network.

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