Steve Blank

MARCH 12, 2014

For the second startup, we chose a year-old web/mobile startup whose market is college bound teens, with a founder who had skipped the initial customer validation process. Sharks, in turn, argued with one another and even attempted to form syndication in one instance. The semester concluded with pizza and ice cream.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. In the show we talked about why this is important to mobile application developers. Configurable from desktop-based web-based UI. Time will tell.

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Partner New York City Cofounder Syndicate 240

Agile VC

OCTOBER 27, 2011

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. I’m not the first person to describe this trend, and my prior background has been primarily as a consumer web guy more than in B2B companies.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2018

Establishing a presence on the web was probably one of the first things you set up, after your logo and branding strategy. Your site isn’t responsive or mobile-friendly. Your site isn’t responsive or mobile-friendly. It’s a given by this point that your business should have a website. Think about Google.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

He is a serial entrepreneur, internationally syndicated columnist, angel investor, public speaker and author of the best-selling book Never Get a “Real&# Job: How To Dump Your Boss, Build a Business and Not Go Broke. Have an account?

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

If you always wanted to create your own live web-based radio show but have no idea how to do it, here’s a simple and elegant solution for you – Spreaker ( www.spreaker.com ) is an audio platform that allows anyone to create, broadcast and share audio across the Internet easily. Are you an aspiring DJ?

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

Innovations in social media and mobile have cultivated an ongoing dialogue and education between consumers and businesses. Since the marketing industry is so vast, there are many areas of expertise that a professional can become familiar with and really own—like wearable tech, social media marketing, mobile advertising and more.

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Leadership Marketing Social Media Audience 146

Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

It enables merchants to sell their products anywhere by syndicating goods to multiple marketplaces. Startups to global software companies have used the uTest marketplace to get their web, desktop and mobile applications tested. Ixtens ( [link] ) raised $4.6 million led by Greycroft Partners and BV Capital.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 25, 2010

They also couldn’t have asked for a better syndicate of investors. They showed me a very lightweight HTML5 mobile site that enabled you to start a group chat that fell back to just text messages when you logged off the web. We met the next day, along with his partner, Jared Hecht. I knew Jared from his time at Tumblr.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Last week, I presented an initial map of Austin’s mobile scene and wrote about how mobile tech has fast become the hottest area in the industry. In his post, Weintraub talks about how both the cost and price of mobile devices have the potential to be dramatically lower a year from now. The apps are the economy.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. It’ll be nearly two years before the concept of “Web 2.0″ ″ is popularized by Tim O’Reilly (the first Web 2.0 is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

The bulk of the patents they believe Facebook is infringing pertain to things like A) display & targeting of online ads, B) online privacy, C) personalization of a user’s web experience, D) general online messaging (Yahoo! owns a bunch of patents around email, IM, etc), and yes E) social networking. ’s claims are pretty lame.

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Haystack

AUGUST 18, 2019

1/ Bottoms-Up Competition – Seed funds are getting scooped by the well-heeled alumni of today’s web scale companies. We know the web and mobile internet have hit critical mass and embedded into our lives. We know private markets hold the key to 100x or even 1,000x multiples.

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Seed Stage Cap Table Early Stage Malaysia 108

Agile VC

MAY 21, 2012

For the last 5-7 years the universe of potential acquirers web-based businesses has been fairly concentrated. 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. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. May 21, 2012.

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Eric Friedman

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

I recently started using BufferApp both on my phone and my browser to syndicate content to my other networks. Buffer is a web service that takes content from you or others, and syndicates it via a shortened URL across multiple services. I also use Buffer on my phone to send content (but mainly through the email function).

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Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

This company will remain in stealth mode for at least a little while and it isn’t my place to divulge their plans, but we’re very excited about the founding team, market opportunity, and syndicate we will be part of.

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Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

This company will remain in stealth mode for at least a little while and it isn’t my place to divulge their plans, but we’re very excited about the founding team, market opportunity, and syndicate we will be part of.

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Internet Stealth Cofounder Seed Stage 100

The Next Web

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

No matter how you look at it – bandwidth consumption, number of viewers per hour, virality – online video has taken over the Web. Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer’s important announcement about cutting all of Yahoo’s mobile display ads in favor of native formats was the official tipping point for those who needed one. Not anymore. The future.

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Advertising Video United States Syndicate 138

VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

It is often available for subscription, so that new episodes are automatically downloaded via web syndication to the user’s own local computer, mobile application, or portable media player. Wikipedia describes a Podcast as follows: A podcast is an episodic series of digital audio files which a user can download and listen to.

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semanticuniverse.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Mobile telephony is a particularly bloody battlefield; in the most recent volley, Droid has launched an assault on the dominance of the iPhone. Web technologies are no different; the syndication formats RSS and Atom were the subject of a bitter format war starting around the year 2000.

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Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Hollywood writers and producers were jumping ship to create their own indie web series. Coordinates Recent Posts The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] 11 July 2012, 1:57 pm Our Investment in Cloze 25 June 2012, 5:36 pm Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That’s Never Happened 12 June 2012, 4:19 pm.

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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.

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Hockey Stick Seed Stage Silicon Valley Syndicate 113

Rob Go

JANUARY 8, 2014

We don’t invest in “syndicates A rounds” as our first point of entry into a company. Sector: We invest in internet and mobile innovation. Syndicates: We have a bias to lead rounds. We also have a pretty broad range of syndicates that we are a part of. Surprisingly few seed funds operate this way.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Consumers who shop on an iPad, iPhone orAndroid-based phone or tablet will be able to view Invodo video on retail sites in their device’s native Web browser. The latest version of the InPlayer allows retailers to easily expand the reach of video to mobile devices, tablets or whatever the consumer is using.”.

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Agile VC

MAY 16, 2012

Back in 2010 we were observing more and more new B2B startups emulating the product and customer acquisition strategies of existing consumer web companies which my partners & I have long been familiar with. A good example of that is our theme around the consumerization of business software.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2010

A group of seasoned Austin technology entrepreneurs and executives are announcing the formation of their new company, Mass Relevance , to help consumer brand use real-time social content to drive engagement on television, the web, and in the mobile world. A good analogy of the value of all this data is like web analytics.

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blogs.hbr.org

OCTOBER 24, 2012

DIGITAL & MOBILE. In thirty days, I went from no relationships at Yahoo to three warm introductions to power players who could make my desired content syndication partnership happen. HBR Mobile. Harvard Business Mobile. Guidelines for Authors: Web. For Educators. |. For Corporate Buyers. |. HBR ON: iPhone. |.

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Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That’s Never Happened. Mobile payments are the trillion dollar industry that everybody’s been waiting for but has never materialized. But nearly everyone has wrongly placed emphasis on the mobile technology part and not on the payments aspect. June 12, 2012.

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Mobile Disintermediation SMS Government 250

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 Even a filter for content can be a media company. companies (Facebook, Zynga, Groupon, LinkedIn, etc).

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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. ==. They don’t even run ads in the FB mobile apps. Facebook, Inc. Filing Date : February 1, 2012.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 23, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Syndicate Funding on AngelList – A Company’s Perspective – crowdspring.co/Sl0HEA. 30 Inspiringly Beautiful Web Designs | 1stwebdesigner – crowdspring.co/1iGl0Sr.

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

With the wave of innovation in the consumer web/internet world, we are seeing an increased interest among students in pursuing an entrepreneurial career path. Below is an interview I did with one such entrepreneur (thanks for our friends and OpenView for helping with the filming and syndication). September is here!

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

It is often available for subscription, so that new episodes are automatically downloaded via web syndication to the user’s own local computer, mobile application, or portable media player. Wikipedia describes a Podcast as follows: A podcast is an episodic series of digital audio files which a user can download and listen to.

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Audio Curation Silicon Valley Media 60

mashable.com

JULY 10, 2012

What follows are five ecommerce trends that illustrate the direction that online shopping is headed, as well as some insight and strategies that will allow businesses and consumers to better navigate the uncertain seas of web-based retail. Mobile devices are fast becoming the preferred method of accessing the web.

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eCommerce Software Review Technical Review Social Media 101

mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

With more than 40 million monthly pageviews, Mashable is the most prolific news site reporting breaking web news, providing analysis of trends, reviewing new Web sites and services, and offering social media resources and guides. Have an account?

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Equity Engineer Technical Review Social Media 74

Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

When I launched my beta a few months ago I created a spreadsheet with a bunch of these sites, some general app sites and some mobile app sites and submitted to all of them. Because of the mobile explosion a lot are mobile only so it helps if you have a mobile version if your app (which I do). Startup sites. Podcasting.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 26, 2015

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. There are a lot of options to expand your deal sourcing, like AngelList, syndicates, angel groups, etc. Talk to people and get their POV.

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