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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

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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The Summer Solstice And Seed Stage Squeeze

Haystack

And if you don’t hit one or two right, you end up with a mediocre portfolio. Like VC platforms, these funds could potentially be either as price-insensitive and/or provide more value via portfolio and market insights than a typical seed fund can. We know the web and mobile internet have hit critical mass and embedded into our lives.

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Ethos: What 'Blank Canvas' Means to NextView ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

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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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. Point Nine Capital uses Qwilr to create modern, mobile-native collateral.

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Looking Backwards and Forwards – NextView in 2013 and the Year Ahead

Rob Go

It’s been a yearly tradition for me to share a semi-quantitative view into our portfolio at NextView. Three years ago, I published our first “Stroll through the portfolio” and I’ve published updates each year in January. Surprisingly few seed funds operate this way. Traction in Ad Tech Portfolio.

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Opportunistic & Thematic Investing ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

And we invest in US-based startups, primarily on the US east coast though we’ll consider other parts of country on a selective basis (roughly 15-20% of our portfolio is in the SF Bay area). We also invest only in software & internet enabled businesses.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

Other companies, like Blue Origin, Firefly Space and Space X are all conducting operations in Texas, both together with NASA and for their own unique space ventures. A significant strength of Texas lies in its diversified portfolio of unique cities. Each offers a different culture, resources and economic base.

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