Agile VC

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Most consumer web/mobile companies focus on user growth and usage early in the company’s lifecycle before shifting to monetization. This is especially true for those with a media / ad based business model (e.g.

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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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Agile VC

MAY 10, 2012

When you think of web-enabled startups, farms don’t instantly spring to mind. Trained as a computer scientist and coming from a family whose background is in large-scale corporate farming, Matija saw a clear opportunity to solve many of these data challenges with easy to use web-based software. feedstocks). Read More ».

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Silicon Valley Cofounder Seed Stage Syndicate 223

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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Acquisition Silicon Valley B2B Seed Stage 162

Agile VC

MARCH 30, 2012

Several years ago I wrote a post about the three business models of the consumer web : commerce, advertising, and user-paid premium services. The consumer web landscape has changed meaningfully since I wrote that in 2006. We’re witnessing a new wave in “big data” that extends far beyond just the consumer web.

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Agile VC

JUNE 24, 2013

Today you can buy an Audi or a Dodge Ram pickup with a wifi hotspot (connected via mobile broadband) and you’ll see similar capabilities from other manufacturers in the next 1-2 years. And commuting 2+hrs daily is less of a big deal if you can use that time for work or leisure.

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Internet Caching Aggregator Audio 153

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

The emergence of mobile platforms has broadened the array of internet-enabled businesses somewhat, and overall it obviously marks a massive shift in computing platforms. But at its base level, ubiquitous computing or “mobile” hasn’t actually changed that much from the desktop web when it comes to fundamental business models.

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Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

I played around on BBS’s when I was growing up in the late ’80s and of course the foundations of the web were laid even before that by the military and academic institutions.

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Internet Stealth Cofounder Seed Stage 100

Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

I played around on BBS’s when I was growing up in the late ’80s and of course the foundations of the web were laid even before that by the military and academic institutions.

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Internet Stealth Cofounder Seed Stage 100

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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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. Read More ».

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Silicon Valley Seed Stage Syndicate Syndication 100

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. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Read More ».

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Hockey Stick Seed Stage Silicon Valley Syndicate 113

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). Read More ».

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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. Read More ».

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